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Heroes in tragedy - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Pentheus decides to deny dionysus, and maintains this throughout
        
        this is what causes dionysus to punish him
    - - Pentheus' hamartia is his reluctance to accept dionysus
  - - - The result of this is shown to be very horrifying
        
        Agave weeps once her mind is cleared
        
        This shows the cruelty and unrelentless nature of the gods
        
        And could possibly be Euripides criticising this idea
        
        Cadmus laments his position
        
        Thebes has lost order due to bacchants
    - - His city is being destroyed by a god, and he simply wants to restore it
- - - - Oedipus makes his decision to discover Laius' killer, as this is in his nature, but he is unable to yield when told to stop
        
        This is what leads to his destruction
    - - Oedious' hamartia is the choices he made leadin him to kill his father and marry his mother
        
        He does not make one specific mistake though, as there are many factors that lead to his downfall
        
        rather than his mistake, the play focuses on his discovery
  - - - An example of Sophocles showing moral message
    - - His emotional involvement causes his view to be clouded, and he acts unjustly
      - Creon is only saved because jocasta involves herself
        
        This shows the dangers of personal justice and the superiority of legal system
- - - - Argued a hero was someone who makes a decision and is unable to yield
    - - Argued a ood hero hero must be someone of high status, who made a reat mistake (hamartia)