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A tragic hero is a kind of personality in a tragedy, and is generally the protagonist. Tragic heroes characteristically have heroic qualities that earn them the commiseration of the audience, but also have faults or make blunders that ultimately lead to their own downfall. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is a tragic hero. His inattentive passion in love, which makes him a compelling character, also leads directly to the tragedy of his death. Aristotle remains the furthermost critic of the Greek antiquity. He remains the greatest investigative thinker of the ancient times. His slender volume entitled Poetics has exerted abiding authority on the later critics. In this volume he has primarily written on tragedy. After discussing the intent and fortitude of tragedy Aristotle verbalize about the tragic hero – the means by which the dramatist expresses both the aim and spirit of tragedy.