A quick reply (roughly):
Surely the tragic hero must be (metaphorically) blinded (i.e. removed of orthodox sight & forced to behold something new, unique, terrifying) - the Chorus say Agamemnon is blinded by hubris; Kent tells Lear to “see better” before he banishes Cordelia, Hamlet sees the ghost, Othello “sees” Cassio with his handkerchief, Gloster reads the letter “if it be nothing I shall not need spectacles”, the (blind) prophet Teiresias calls Oedipus blind, Athene “blinds” Aias, Macbeth “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”, Ophelia “O, woe is me/To have seen what I have seen, see what I see.” These are the catyalysts that begin their tragedy.
Then he must suffer the agony of what he knows/believes & must keep it secret because no one else would understand - it is torture to think of it but think of it he must (Lear in the thunderstorm “the tempest in my mind”, Othello’s epileptic fit, Macbeth “O full of scorpions is my mind”, Hamlet "my imaginations are as foul/As Vulcan’s stithy.
Then the hero must be killed for his vision. Perhaps even granted the true vision before he dies but never articulates. Lear “Look there, look there”, Oedipus at Colonos. But his new vision has created his own executioner. Hamlet creates Laertes, Macbeth creates Macduff, Richard II creates Bolingbroke. Or they must end themselves because they can’t endure the vision anymore.
As Coleridge says: if you want to see real suffering go to a hospital. What transcends the torture & suffering is the consciousness inside it which rather than just screaming in pain, is able to articulate & redeem suffering, & thus is born the Shakespearean sililoquoy.
Ophelia suffers nothing & is a happy little girl; but when she suffers she sings. Without the suffering there could be no song. She is blinded & tortured for us to enjoy her song. Shakespeare does this.
I don’t believe in Aristotle’s tragic flaw & never have. In fact I think Aristotle is just plain wrong in the Poetics. No, that’s not quite true. I don’t think people understand why or for whom Aristotle wrote the Poetics & therefore they misunderstand it. Catharsis? Je pense pas. But that’s a whole new post-grad I want to begin.
As for the Latin translation of blind torture kill, what’s only important is what is best in each language. Infinitives seem better i’th’Latin than i’th’English.
Thanks
Are we talking about the infinitive here or another form of the verb?