Using Aristotles framework of hamartia, explain who makes the mistake in Oedipus the King that leads to the peripeteia.

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Hamartia and Peripatea in Oedipus The King

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Hamartia and Peripatea in Oedipus The King

It is in Aristotle 's Nicomachean Ethics that one is initially introduced to the concept `hamartia ' which is supposed to be understood as the `ethical scheme that embraces all actions of deficiency and excess as well as those actions that causes injuries (Nyusztay , 2002 br

.30 . According to Ivan Nyusztay

, in his discussion of the Nicomachean Ethics , the concept is connected to the elaboration of the different kinds of actions that leads to injuries as it further divides these actions into three kinds . An injury which is caused by an error committed in ignorance ' refers to hamartema (Nyusztay , 2002 ,

.30 . On the other hand , an injury which is caused by misadventure or mischance (or an act ) contrary to reasonable expectations and culpable error ' is referred to as an atychema (Nyusztay , 2002 ,

.30 Finally , an injury committed as a result of an act of injustice or wrong ' is referred to as an adikema (Nyusztay , 2002 ,

.30 . Hamartia in this sense , refers to the following actions (1 ) An act caused by an error due to inadequate knowledge of particular circumstances (2 ) An act caused by an error due to unavoidable ignorance ' and (3 An act caused by a defect of character , distinct on the one hand from an isolated error...