What makes the hero a successful character or morally pure.From classic to modern or old to new every character can be defined by their individual ethics or from their subjective morals. A clean character should have written by his journey related to the nature of the plot.Most stories end with the triumph of protagonist, sacrifices and the defeat of villains.But apart from these trends, there is one kind of character who is literally spelled with the word "tragic". In the period of Shakespearean tragedies, this character was developed in his stories by the reaffirmation of Aristotle's tragic hero. Macbeth, Othello, and hamlet etc. What are the unique concepts they have?. The same 4 act journey of the heroes filled in those tragedies.They have their own journey, conflict, and flaw. In 1987 Nayagan released in theatres and gets international acclaim.The movie contains the maximum characteristics of the tragic hero and their journey.
So let us get into the four-act structure of the hero's journey.Creating the morality, Failure of ethics, Self-examination, and Resolution. The first act gives some morality to the character which he follows to the next entire section of the movie.Shakespear writes Hero's morality is based on things what happens to him or the things changed is a path. In Nayagan velu adapt his own moral based on two subplot characters.One is his first father who died in the first scene. And his second Muslim father. Those are two characters who feed those philosophies in Velu's life. His moral is "Naalu perukku nallathuna ethuvum thappila..".It is very important to consider that the character didn't have an idea about that ethics. Nolan's Batman is the best example of this act. He has no idea about the new morals. He is completely opposite in his previous actions.So the journey of the hero starts with these morals initially.
And the second act features the failure of ethics of the hero. This is the turn of the main narrative story.Their own philosophies become the reason for their flaw.His initial mistakes make suffer. The characters pushed to choose the option between difficult choices. It will make them as the victim of circumstances. It makes isolation, alienation and lot of troubles for the protagonists. Even Velu praised as a good-hearted man among people. He didn't escape from justice. And the justice makes his flaw. In Dark Knight, his primary motive is he won't kill anyone for the reason. Joker takes it as an advantage and makes more trouble. So it makes batman's flaw.
And the third act called "Self-examination". It intensely created by the Doubting nature of our tragic heroes.Even he held his own justice with him, after many losses the character falls into this third act.It is clear that velu fight with his daughter to justify himself, he didn't want to lose his morals.But at final he suspects himself, as the result, he didn't say himself whether he is a good guy or bad one.In Batman after the death of Racheal, he suspects on his morals and the whole third sequence of the trilogy is made for this purpose.And the final act is the resolution for the heroes and that is "He must die". By these type of ending writer creates the moral balancing for the movies.It also appeared in all tragedies of Shakespeare.
Not only this movie, every movie with tragic characters follow this 4 act structure to create intense tragedies.Tragic characters can't be classified as a good or evil.Even his motivations labeled himself as a protagonist, his actions to achieve that motivation looks like villain's attitude.I would like to mention the phrase which is defined by Aristotle "A man doesn't become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall". Velu saw his downfall in his tragic journey. Is he a hero? or the title (Nayagan) represents himself as to be?Who knows?. But the flaw of the character is different for both protagonists and antagonists.
For protagonists, the flaw is his major fall after the losses.velu lost his son, daughter even his ethics. And faces overcome. For antagonists, the flaw is his eventual downfall. So what is eventually happen?. He dies that's all. He ends like those subplot characters for holding the same morals. Finally is he the protagonist? or antagonist? even we ask him personally to tell.Tragic heroes cannot be classified so he will tell "Theriyalaye pa.."
And the second act features the failure of ethics of the hero. This is the turn of the main narrative story.Their own philosophies become the reason for their flaw.His initial mistakes make suffer. The characters pushed to choose the option between difficult choices. It will make them as the victim of circumstances. It makes isolation, alienation and lot of troubles for the protagonists. Even Velu praised as a good-hearted man among people. He didn't escape from justice. And the justice makes his flaw. In Dark Knight, his primary motive is he won't kill anyone for the reason. Joker takes it as an advantage and makes more trouble. So it makes batman's flaw.
And the third act called "Self-examination". It intensely created by the Doubting nature of our tragic heroes.Even he held his own justice with him, after many losses the character falls into this third act.It is clear that velu fight with his daughter to justify himself, he didn't want to lose his morals.But at final he suspects himself, as the result, he didn't say himself whether he is a good guy or bad one.In Batman after the death of Racheal, he suspects on his morals and the whole third sequence of the trilogy is made for this purpose.And the final act is the resolution for the heroes and that is "He must die". By these type of ending writer creates the moral balancing for the movies.It also appeared in all tragedies of Shakespeare.
Not only this movie, every movie with tragic characters follow this 4 act structure to create intense tragedies.Tragic characters can't be classified as a good or evil.Even his motivations labeled himself as a protagonist, his actions to achieve that motivation looks like villain's attitude.I would like to mention the phrase which is defined by Aristotle "A man doesn't become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall". Velu saw his downfall in his tragic journey. Is he a hero? or the title (Nayagan) represents himself as to be?Who knows?. But the flaw of the character is different for both protagonists and antagonists.
For protagonists, the flaw is his major fall after the losses.velu lost his son, daughter even his ethics. And faces overcome. For antagonists, the flaw is his eventual downfall. So what is eventually happen?. He dies that's all. He ends like those subplot characters for holding the same morals. Finally is he the protagonist? or antagonist? even we ask him personally to tell.Tragic heroes cannot be classified so he will tell "Theriyalaye pa.."
