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	The tragic [[protagonist]]’s flaw that precipitates his/her [[peripeteia \| fall]] from a position of good fortune to bad fortune, often associated with his/her overweening [[hubris]], and integral to [[tragedy]]. <i>Hamartia</i> is a term taken from archery, meaning “falling short of the mark,” but it also suggests “sin,” “trespass,” “fault,” “mistake,” “error,” etc. The term derives from the word, <i>hamartanein</i>, which is Greek for "fail, failure, guilt or to fail one's purpose."		The tragic [[protagonist]]’s flaw that precipitates his/her [[peripeteia \| fall]] from a position of good fortune to bad fortune, often associated with his/her overweening [[hubris]], and integral to [[tragedy]]. <i>Hamartia</i> is a term taken from archery, meaning “falling short of the mark,” but it also suggests “sin,” “trespass,” “fault,” “mistake,” “error,” etc. The term derives from the word, <i>hamartanein</i>, which is Greek for "fail, failure, guilt or to fail one's purpose." The word is notable to many from <i>Poetics</i> by Aristotle.

	== Examples of "Hamartia" in Literature ==		== Examples of "Hamartia" in Literature ==