Help you find that break down his specific terminology. Peter Wessel Zapffe: The Ontological Tragedy of Human Being

Unlike Aristotle’s hamartia (hero’s flaw) or Hegel’s conflict of duties, Zapffe’s tragic hero is who refuses the four defenses. True tragic insight occurs when a person fully acknowledges the absurd gap between what consciousness demands (meaning, eternity, justice) and what reality supplies (chaos, finitude, indifference). The only consistent response, for Zapffe, is not suicide (which he saw as a failed biological instinct) but quiet, clear-eyed pessimism —a life lived without illusions, often expressed through dark humor or aesthetic sublimation.