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Love For Her Children People
1,145 words
What is happening to our people is a drama, an
authentic and extraordinary drama for the
ownership of life of happiness of the pure and
simple well-being that my people have been
dreaming about since the beginning of history. The
Evita that people worldwide cherish as the
Argentinian sweetheart is a stronger woman than I
had ever envisioned. From reading her personal
message to the people, I saw a woman who knew so
much and had the will of an army to achieve her
virtuous goal. She was a leader o...
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The Tragic Hero In Antigone
1,454 words
The Tragic Hero in the Play Antigone Antigone,
which was written by Sophocles, is possibly the
first written play that still exists today (www.
image 1). There is much controversy between who
the tragic hero is in the play. Some people say
Antigone, some say Creon, others even say Haemon.
I believe Creon displays all of the
characteristics of a tragic hero. He receives
compassion through the audience, yet recognizes
his weaknesses, and his downfalls from his own
self-pride, stubbornness, and con...
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Lady With The Pet Dog Beginning Of The Story
789 words
The Lady With the Pet Dog, written by Anton
Chekhov, is a passionate love story portraying
betrayal at its greatest. The story presents a
deceiving nature that perfectly depicts real life
in most of society today. The title gives the
impression that this story is just a simple-minded
one, but in reality it truly recognizes the
mysteries that develop right under our noses. This
story is about the confusing and unexpected
forbidden love that evolves between two Anton
Chekhov writes The Lady With t...
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Sexual Nature Professional Wrestling
342 words
The world of professional wrestling has recently
gone through changes. In the eighties,
professional wrestling came into the mainstream as
sports entertainment. Back then, it was good guy
vs. bad guy. The fans knew to cheer for and,
likewise, they knew who to jeer for. As the
nineties came along, the scenario underwent some
changes. No longer was the drama of wrestling so
plain and clear. Nowadays, there are shades of
gray where each superstar has his good points, as
well as his bad ones. In add...
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Drama Of A Gifted Child Feeling Of Love Mother
883 words
Its existence has been questioned no less than
that of God, truth, and the limit to our universe.
It has no textbook definition, because, like cold
temperature, nobody has yet been able to agree on
a concrete meaning of it. It is the key topic of
countless songs, poems, books, works of art,
plays, movies, and quarrels; and yet, we dont even
know if it exists. Nevertheless, when asked, most
people will say that they have experienced the
unidentifiable feeling of love. Many people will
agree that ...
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Kill His Father Relationship With His Mother
1,054 words
The Presence of the Oedipus Complex in Paul
Auster's City of Glass Throughout history
literature has had several themes or ideas that
have persisted though all of its different
movements. One of these ideas is that of the
Oedipus complex. The Story of Oedipus was
originally written by Sophocles in the fifth
century BC. Sigmund Freud conceived the actual
idea of the "Oedipus Complex" as it pertains to
society and modern literature. A definition
Oedipus complex or theory states that, A boy's
sexua...
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Civil War Nineteenth Century
1,007 words
There were many reasons why Civil War poets wrote
about the war. Some used the war to express their
ideas concerning society, religion, and mans place
in the world. While others aspired to capture the
effects of the war and its impact on the soldiers
and their families. Few of the poets trying to
capture the wars effects approached realism
because sentimentality and melodramatic temper was
typical for their era. There were so many
different feelings express in the poetry about the
Civil War. I p...
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Lorraine Hansberry Walter Lee
495 words
A domestic drama set in a tenement on the south
side of Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry's tells the
story of the Younger family. Following the death
of the family's father and provider Big Walter,
who has died from overwork and grief over the
death of a child, the Younger's await the payment
of Walter's life insurance. For Walter's son
Walter Lee, the money would enable him to open a
liquor store and give up his degrading work as a
chauffeur for a wealthy white; he also dreams of
buying pearls for h...
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People Can Relate Pity And Fear
1,241 words
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher around the time
350 BC. He wrote a selection titled Tragedy and
the Emotions of Pity and Fear from his work titled
Poetics. One of Aristotle concepts is based on
imitation. The poet should make his plots and
verses on his experiences to imitate real life
actions. William Wordsworth was a late
seventeenth, early eighteenth century poet. He
wrote a selection titled from the preface to
Lyrical Ballads. In this work, one of his main
points for poems is to choose inc...
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Killing His Father Oedipus The King
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Oedipus the King - Tragic Justice of Fate by Tina
Uhlig Oedipus the King is one of the most famous
and influential of Sophocles' plays. On the
surface of this drama there is, without a doubt, a
tone of disillusionment. Dramatic irony is a
much-used literary device in this play and its
unusual structure serves as an explanation for its
enduring popularity. Oedipus is portrayed as a
character of social conscience whose tragedy
stresses the vulnerability of human beings whose
suffering is brought o...
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Waiting For Godot Theatre Of The Absurd
1,177 words
... eloped. Many theater historians and critics
label Alfred Jarry's French play, Ubu Roi as the
earliest example of Theatre of the Absurd. The
current movement of absurdism, however, emerged in
France after World War II, as a rebellion against
the traditional values and beliefs of Western
culture and literature. It began with writers like
Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus and eventually
included other writers such as Eugene Ionesco,
Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Edward Albee, and
Harold Pinter, t...
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Mice And Men George And Lennie
1,329 words
Of Mice And Men: A Comprehensive Comparison Of
Mice And Men: A Comprehensive Comparison Of Novel
And Movie Of Mice and Men: A Comprehensive
Comparison of Novel and Movie Who doesnt know of
John Steinbecks classic novel Of Mice and Men? It
is a novel that almost everyone educated in the
United States has either read it or pretended to
read it. But how many have seen the 1992 film Of
Mice and Men? The relative obscurity of 1992
screen version of this timeless drama does not
mean that it was poorly...
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Phil Boss Leaves George Lennie
455 words
Steinbach wrote his novel Of Mice and Men then
changed the genre of his book to a drama. He does
this to convey a different to his audience. In the
novel, the ending is more promising. It leaves
George walking away with Slim, discussing their
plans to go have a drink. It seems as if George
moves on and accepts what he has done to Lennie.
George seems to become friends with Slim, and the
ending of this novel walks off with him. It leaves
the reader thinking that George may go on working
at the ra...
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Mice And Men Quality Of Life
549 words
Of Mice and Men is set in the time of the
depression, and focused on the lives of two
stragglers, One who is mentally retarded, and the
other who cares for him. Although written during
the depression the book focuses little on this,
and more on the drama of the two migrant workers.
The Hopes of the two men are built up throughout
the entire book, and come crashing down at the
end. This gives a new perspective, and meaning to
the word and how it affects us as human beings. Of
Mice and Men is not ...
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Nora Helmer Henrik Ibsen
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Old but Modern Henrik Ibsen's play A Dolls House
was written well over 100 years ago. It has been
performed around the world, and even had its
ending changed for controversial reasons. But it
still proves to be a very well written play with a
strong plot and modern struggles. Reading of the
play flows very well and it is easy to follow. The
age of the play should not prevent it from being
studied in school. English and Literature classes
should study A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen because
it make...
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Seventeenth Century Middle Class
946 words
The Baroque is a style of art that embraces both
formal and theatrical themes. It is a style that
attempts to capture strong emotions from the
viewer. Whether it is the striking contrast of
light and dark, the strong diagonals used, or the
story being told, Baroque has a way with the
viewer where every emotion is heightened and
pulled to the fullest. However, although the
concept of Baroque pieces are generally similar,
in Holland and Italy there are striking
dissimilarities due to economical, p...
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Nineteenth Century Live Forever
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Romanticism was one of the strongest movements to
ever have hit the music scene. Romanticism lasted
a large portion of the nineteenth century and it =
s music reflected that of the world that was
rapidly changing during those years. One of these
massive changes taking place was the Industrial
Revolution. In Britain, science was being applied
to already existing manufacturing processes. This
meant that, with better systems in place rather
than those of hard back breaking labour, more
goods could ...
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Three Uses Of The Knife David Mamet Tragedy
675 words
Short, sharp Three Uses of the Knife: On the
Nature and Purpose of Drama David Mamet Methuen?
12. 99, pp 128 It is surprising, given his plays
lack of introspection, how much David Mamet loves
to theorise about theatre. But the ferocity of his
theorising that of the possessed, vehement teacher
is distinctively Mametian. Three Uses of the Knife
is a typically aggressive short (overpriced)
treatise on our dramatic instinct. Instinct,
because Mamet begins with an account of the
dramatic urge as an ...
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Streetcar Named Desire Opposition Of Forces Blanche
428 words
Good drama is built on conflict of some kind an
opposition of forces or desires that must be
resolved by the end of the story. Streetcar Named
Desire employs exactly that. An opposition of
forces, and desire, all of which must come to some
sort of resolution or conclusion at the end. This
is the backbone of the dramatic structure used in
Streetcar Named Desire. The start of the play
introduces the audience to the conflicts. Straight
away the audience is introduced to elements of
which add to the...
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Part Is Oedipus Sophocles
378 words
Of all the great Greek playwrights, Sophocles is
probably the one regarded as the greatest. Born at
Colonus around 496 BC, he was the son of a wealthy
armor manufacturer. As a young man, Sophocles was
given a traditional education in music, dancing,
and gymnastics. At one time, he even studied under
Aeschylus. Also, he was said to have been handsome
and graceful. As an adult, Sophocles was very
active in Athenian life. He served as a general
twice, once under Pericles, and also served as a
pries...
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