My Face
However, I do have a definition of a tragic hero. He is a ruler of some sort (cf Macbeth as thane) with a serious character flaw (cf Macbeth's ambition) which causes him to lose this position. He has a mental breakdown, expresses remorse, and dies. Othello is a general who suffers from both epilepsy and severe jealousy. Though he does not lose his position in the military until his suicide, he does lose his wife and social acceptance in the eyes of such as Brabantio. Othello certainly has a nervous breakdown (his trance in IV.1) and palpably dies, however remorse is debatable. In his last words Othello urges the others to think of him as "One who loved not wisely, but too well." On the other hand, this speech is a story to cover the fact that he is about to commit the most foul sin known to the Elizabethan world (suicide).