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SonOfPein said:
A hero? No. Not da my standards. But da literary standards, he would be classified as a tragic hero. These are the elements of a tragic hero: 1. the char is of noble birth 2. the tragic hero is good, though not perfect, and the fall results from the char committing an act of injustice, one the char committed out of ignorance o the thought some "greater good" might be served. The char must make an error in judgement to cause him to fall from his high stature. 3. The hero's downfall must be his own fault 4. The tragic hero's misfortune must not be fully deserved, and the punishment for it must exceed the hero's crime. 5. the misfortune must result in a gain of self-knowledge, o learning some truth. 6. the tragic hero gains understanding through his defeat and becomes and example for others. I would say this fits Sasuke to a "T". The Uchiha clan was an elite clan, and Sasuke's dad was the recitazione leader at the time of its destruction. Sasuke is a good person (or at least I think so) and his fall was entirely his fault cause it was his choice to go to Oro. Sasuke did have a huge lack of good judgement da going there, but he believed he would be avenging the murder of his clan. Most people would agree his misfortune is not entirely deserved, because who deserves to have their clan massacred. Itachi is an even better tragic hero, cause he killed the clan for the "greater good" of the village. At the end of the misfortune, Sasuke learns the truth about the massacre, and regrets killing Itachi, which means he learned from his mistake and became an example of what happens when te seek revenge. Sasuke is a literary example of a tragic hero, though he is not an epic hero o literary hero da far (Naruto would be the literary hero). I don't consider him a hero simply because I don't consider tragic characters heroes, and I tend to only feel sorry for them, though Itachi is the one exception to this rule. I do consider him a hero. I do not consider tragic Heroes as Heroes cause their goals are often immoral, and I do not view immoral acts as heroic. Though it does not really matter what I think, because technically, as I detto before, if te go da text book standards, Sasuke is a tragic hero.
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