medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A literary critic states: 'The protagonist's failure is inevitable, because he possesses a fatal flaw. Moreover, any character who has such a fatal flaw is destined for tragedy.'
In the critic's argument, the protagonist's 'failure' functions as which one of the following?
- the particular tragic outcome that the critic says the protagonist's flaw makes unavoidable.
- a condition that must be satisfied before the protagonist can come to possess a fatal flaw.
- the originating factor that first brings the protagonist's fatal flaw itself into being.
- the sole reason that every fictional character who was ever written is doomed to fail utterly.
- a peripheral narrative detail introduced only to divert the attentive reader's attention.
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