If Abraham were considered a "tragic hero," his particular, individual relation to a grander scheme (ethics, fate, arete) would be subsumed. He would be a "knight of infinite resignation"--we've seen these figures in countless action films as well as abstract expressionism--where the hero must commit a sacrifice for the common good. Yet Abraham transgresses the common good and typical "moral virtue" by agreeing to God's demand that he kill his son. His trial is thus not universal, but rather, in a sense, unintelligible, cryptic, personal.
