Define Tragic Hero. Then Explain how Matthew Harrison brady is a tragic hero.

A tragic hero is character in a dramatic narrative who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat. Brady is so proud he reveals that the believes himself to be, in effect, a prophet of God, who hears God's will and enforces it in the world. Brady, whose ambitions to be a great man were never fully recognized because of his three failures to be elected president, can not stand the humiliation. He engages in ongoing attempts to drown his sorrows with overeating. His death, which comes at the height of his humiliation, when Cates is given a joke of a sentence and the courtroom and radio man leave before the conclusion of his speech, causes a breakdown and ultimately his death.