Tragedy
A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist meets ruin or death through fate or a fatal flaw.
Tragedy traces a downfall, usually of a person of stature, whose suffering carries a weight of inevitability. Writers use the form to probe human limits, moral failure, and the costs of pride or error. Its arc typically moves from high standing to catastrophe.
Example
Oedipus’s determined search for the truth about a plague leads straight to his own ruin, the tragic pattern of a great man undone by what he seeks.
Oedipus Rex · Sophocles