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Year Old Girl Pity And Fear
1,094 wordsWhen "Where Are You Going, Where have you been?" was written in 1966, it was interpreted many different ways. Many feminist and womens rights groups saw the story as an symbol of violence against women. Others believed it was a demonstration of "pure realism" and the "grotesque. " Joyce Carol Oates has never substantiated or refuted any of these claims, her only comment on the story being that Bob Dylan's song, "Its All Over Now, Baby Blue" was on her mind while writing it. No matter what view o...
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Pity And Terror Pity And Fear
1,301 wordsThe dramatis personae of mythical or literary tragedy are characters towards whom fate slowly reveals inevitable destruction, but tragedy is not limited to the unfolding of an unavoidable fate. In Hamlet, tragedy extends its concerns into landscape and axial directionality. Landscapes in plays of myth and literature give a specific location for imagining the moods and elements for the particular genre. Axial direction refers to the aim of the play's action, as in what direction is the play's act...
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Pity And Fear Oedipus Rex
1,970 words... Away! Out of the land, away! Banishment, Banishment! Fatal Am I, accused, and the hate on me as no man else, of the gods His misfortune was so great from the fact that not only did he discover that he had inadvertently murdered his father and married his mother, but he also lost Jocosta to suicide, lost his sight and his home as he is banished from Thebes. Since Oedipus is not an evil man he did not deserve his misfortunes and thats why the reader feels pity for him. The reader is also able ...
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People Can Relate Pity And Fear
1,241 wordsAristotle 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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Othello As A Tragic Hero
1,178 wordsIntroduction Othello is a classic tragic hero that stands out as distinguished individual failing in the encounter with evil. Brought to us through Shakespeare's genius, he compares in significance to other personalities including Oedipus, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet and other tragic heroes. This paper will focus on the explication of Othello as a tragic hero and his correspondence to the canons for tragic protagonists. Othello and Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy To decide how well Othello fits...
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Hamlet Analyzed In Terms Of Aristotle Poetics
883 wordsAristotle's Poetics is considered the guide to a well written tragedy; his methods have been used for centuries. In Aristotle's opinion, plot is the most important aspect of the tragedy, all other parts such as character, diction, and thought stem from the plot. Aristotle defines a tragedy as .".. an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play...
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Pity And Fear Hail To Thee Thane
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According to the classical view, tragedy should arouse feelings of pity and fear in the audience. Does Macbeth do this? Tragedy has most definitely influenced the viewers thoughts on Macbeth within this play. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the audience sees a gradual breakdown in the character of Macbeth himself, due to the tragic events that unfold during the play. This has a direct effect on the audiences views and thoughts of Macbeth, thus creating pity and fear within the audien...
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Pity And Fear Murder Of King
990 wordsDear Kylie, I noticed your submission to Culture Magazine, regarding Shakespeare's great play Hamlet. Having recently studied Hamlet in Year 12 English, I think I can help answer one of your questions. You asked why is Hamlet regarded as a tragic hero and the play a classic tragedy? Before I can answer your question, you must first understand the difference between the meaning of tragedy today and what is meant by tragedy in drama. Whereas a tragedy in life may be considered something such as a ...
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Pity And Fear Audience Feels
908 wordster> According to the classical view, tragedy should arouse feelings of pity and fear in the audience. Does macbeth do this? Shakespeare's Macbeth is definitely a tragedy in the sense that it arouses feelings of pity and fear in the audience. Macbeth is a weak minded man who, if sees an opportunity for power follows his ambitions and takes it, even if this is not the rightful thing to do. He is easily persuaded and suffers great guilt. Macbeth the character on his own creates the feeli...
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Oedipus The King Claudius And Polonius
752 wordsCatharsis Catharsis a literary term designating the effects of tragedy on its spectators primarily originates in Aristotle's works. The term and its meanings have been a subject of endless controversy through the history of literary theory and aesthetics. Catharsis is an unexpected, sudden breakdown or climax that makes up change in emotion, which brings purification or clarification. Catharsis is a form of emotional cleansing first defined by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. (Wikipedia) Cathars...
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Pity And Fear Point Of View
1,946 wordsIs The Persians a proper tragedy or just a piece of dramatized military and civic propaganda? Can it be both? Illustrate your answer with close reference to the text. The Persians is the only Greek tragedy to focus on a subject other than mythology, and this fact in itself should tell us something about the playwrights concerns. Why did Aeschylus not turn to mythology if he had a point to make about war? Greek mythology is full of wars and heroes, and playwrights of the time could find ample raw...
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Pity And Fear Work Of Art
1,673 wordsPhilosophy of Aesthetic 1) Aristotle's main concern in the Poetics is to redeem the arts from Plato's criticism of their value in human society. Aristotle succeeds in his concern to some extent because his justification for the concern may be questioned if to look at the issue from some other prospective. This work by Aristotle is considered to be the first example of criticism in literary tradition. Firstly Aristotle defines tragedy in his masterpiece and gives some basic insight into it. Accor...
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Pity And Fear Impress Daisy
975 wordsAristotle? s definition of tragedy says that the story in question should evoke both pity and fear in the reader. The tragic character must be one who is highly renowned and prosperous. This character must also have a fall from glory. He doesn? t have to die, but must have a fall from glory caused by his own fatal flaw. Two stories, which fit this definition, are The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier dies because of her tra...
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Act V Scene Act I Scene
1,810 wordsMacbeth: Aristotelian Tragedy Kim Blair Per. 5 Interpretive Test The definition of tragedy in an excerpt from Aristotle's Poetics is the re-creation, complete within itself, of an important moral action. The relevance of Aristotle's Poetics to Shakespeare's play Macbeth defines the making of a dramatic tragedy and presents the general principles of the construction of this genre. Aristotle's attention throughout most of his Poetics is directed towards the requirements and expectations of the plo...
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Pity And Fear Tragic Flaw
654 wordsThe word tragedy has various meanings and applications. The one dictionary meaning explains tragedy as a story with an unhappy ending while the webster dictionary elaborates it as a drama showing the ruin or down fall of the principal character dealing with the sorrowful or terrible side of life. Over the ages the criteria of tragedy has changed according to the preoccupation of that era. According to Arustottles definition of of tragedy in the poetics, the protagonist was essentially a person o...
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Shakespeare Hamlet Father Death
917 wordsAristotle? s Poetics is considered the guide to a well written tragedy; his methods have been used for centuries. In Aristotle? s opinion, plot is the most important aspect of the tragedy, all other parts such as character, diction, and thought stem from the plot. Aristotle defines a tragedy as? ? an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play...
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Oedipus The King Pity And Fear
879 wordsThe genre of drama is wide and contains works of varied forms and subjects. The first drama, on which all later works are based, developed in Greece and dealt with religious and social issues. According to Aristotle? s The Poetics, a Greek Tragedy must deal with a serious purpose, arousing a sense of pity or fear in the audience. The emphasis must be on plot over character development and the playwright must utilize suspense and unity of time, place and action. Aristotle writes that a tragic her...
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