Hamlet/Raskolnikov Similarities

•The protagonist is above ordinary people, and he/shemust be brought from happiness to misery (suffering =pathos).•The choice made by the protagonist is significant and isdictated by his/her own error, frailty, or mistakenjudgment. (tragic flaw or hamartia [ha-marr-tea-a])•The error, frailty, or mistake is not necessarily a flaw incharacter but rather an extreme response to extraordinarycircumstances.•Other Greek terms: catharsis – purging through emotionalresponse, especially pity and fear