What does Superman, Perseus, and a fireman all have in common? They are all archetypically categorized as heroes. A hero is “a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character”. But there is also another character archetype of hero, the tragic hero. An example of a tragic hero is Oedipus from Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. A tragic hero, according to Aristotle, is usually noble by birth, has hamaria, has peripeteia, his actions usually result in self awareness, and the audience feels pity or fear for him. A more modern tragic hero would be a man of noble stature or is extraordinary, good but not too good, his destruction proves a point, and his downfall is his own fault but also his own choice. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the protagonist,