Sophocles was the one who based the guidelines of a tragic hero.
Hmmm thinking about Michael Henchard(The Mayor of Casterbridge) post drinking can never be a good thought.
So below are the guidelines which you will consciously avoid for a meaningful life.
1. a leader in his society, exemplifying both the good and bad elements of that society ('a person neither wholly good nor bad').
2. disclosed to the audience at the height of his prosperity, power, and influence in that social group so that his fall from its favour will seem that much greater (and, therefore, more tragic).
3. driven to his fall (social alienation, suffering, death, or exile) by some innate flaw (Greek: hamartia) in his nature, yet appear to have the ability to alter his course. (In other words, he should appear to possess free will, and yet be a victim.)
4. made a scapegoat for the sins or errors of his people--and accordingly be exiled or punished by them in such a way that his suffering is irreversible (since Oedipus is blinded, his suffering cannot be reversed).
5. the cause of his own punishment through his own pride (hubris).
6. ready to take upon himself the burden of his society's (and hence the audience's) sense of guilt, shame, or short-coming.
7. grander and more noble as the result of his futile struggle with fate.
8. through his suffering instrumental in the resolution of a problem that plagued his society at the outset, and in the restoration of a harmony that was not present at the opening of the play. Our grieving over the destruction of the hero but our relief over the restoration of social harmony produces in the audience what Aristotle termed "catharsis" or "tragic satisfaction" through the purgation of pity and fear.
Please never indulge is hubris.
Take it Easy.
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