Does humankind posses a tragic flaw? A tragic flaw or the Greek term, hamartia, is the flaw that sets up the tragic hero for their downfall. Many film adaptations have characters posses a tragic flaw to make them more relatable or use one as an overall theme. However, there can always be redeeming qualities to balance or outway a flaw. Humankind’s most likely tragic flaws are obsession, being the best, fear, greed, and more, while it's most redeeming qualities are kindness, love, determination, caring about something, and compassion. Pixar uses tragic flaws for their characters to make them more relatable and to influence the audience to have more of an opinion on that character. For example, in Monsters Inc, Randall was obsessed with becoming the best at scaring the children and he didn't care who he hurt to get there (this could also be seen as greed). In The Incredibles, Syndrome was stuck in the past and sought revenge. He killed all the supers and tried to abducted Mr Incredible and his family so he could become the ultimate superhero. In Finding Nemo, Nemo touched the butt because he wanted to prove to his father that he doesn’t always need him by his side. He ends up getting captured with his coming dad saving him. In Finding Dory, Hank is so fearful that the ocean is such a terrible place, he goes through all this trouble to get on the truck to Cleveland, only to end up going in the ocean and loving it. Even though lots of Pixar characters do have tragic flaws all of them have redeeming qualities to even out or overshadow the bad. An example of this is in Monsters Inc, Randall’s flaws are overshadowed by Sully’s kindness towards his friends and Boo. In The Incredibles, Mr Incredible has such strong feelings of love for his family and being a super that he saves all of them and defeats the robot simultaneously. In Finding Nemo, scared Marlin is so determined to follow the boat and save Nemo. He ends up meeting a wide variety of sea life, including three sharks, a giant whale, sea turtles and a new friend, Dory. In Finding Dory, Dory is so caring and compassionate to everyone she meets, even animals who aren’t so nice to her or don’t understand her disability. As you might be able to see already, Pixar does have tragic flaws and redeeming qualities. Because their audience is mostly focused towards children, they do have much more redeeming qualities sprinkled through their movies than tragic flaws.
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