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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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Influence Of Ancient Greek Times
1,271 wordsAll through history the Greeks have influenced our lives in more ways than most people could imagine. To this day we use many ideas and ways of life that the Greeks used thousands of years ago. "Everywhere Greek traders went, they took Greek ideas with them. People throughout the ancient world were influenced by Greek thought and culture. "Their greatness was largely the result of achievements of their artists, scientists, and philosophers. " The Greeks developed the study of many sciences, incl...
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Lear And Gloucester King Lear
937 wordsIn William Shakespeare's King Lear, the similar events that Lear and Gloucester experience result in a parallel plot sequence for the story. Lear and Gloucester are similar characters because they are experiencing similar problems while playing the role of a father. Their children also have a similar eagerness for power, a problem that both Lear and Gloucester should not have to deal with while addressing serious mental and physical dilemmas. And although the two characters are very similar, the...
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Oedipus Fate Truth
387 wordsThis is the king who solved the famous riddle... Yet in the end ruin swept over him. As a marionette to fate and the prophecies, Oedipus grappled with the most satanic of adversities with steadfast fortitude. Perhaps this primitive search for truth, the origin of pestilence, was a tragic blunder? Or did he have any choice but to solve the riddle? Considering his position of power (a deliberate irony on the part of Sophocles), another selection he lacked. But to what extent was he controlled by f...
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Why Macbeth Is An Aristotelian Tragedy
1,174 wordsShakespeare's Macbeth is an exemplary form of Aristotle's definition of tragedy. Macbeth, on par with Oedipus and Medea, begins the play on a noble pedestal, but, before the eyes of the viewers, loses the battle with his destiny, and degrades from a hero to a butcher by its denouement. This is not all there is to Macbeth, however. Aristotle took the concept of tragedy very seriously, and, in order to be tragic by his standards, something would have to fulfill numerous goals, stay within certain ...
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Bury Her Brother Tragic Hero
699 wordsTragic Hero What qualities generate a hero? Must heroes possess superhuman abilities? In the Greek era, heroism was much more practical. According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must be royal. He / she must be a good, moral person. Yet, every tragic hero must exhibit flaws. His / her flaws must lead to downfall. A hero must be punished or experience suffering. He / she must invoke catharsis into the audience. A tragic hero must recognize his / her wrongs and accept all consequences. Beyond all doub...
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Dramatic Irony Creates Tension
869 wordsWhose life is it anyway is a satisfying play on a dramatic and intellectual level. The play makes it satisfying by the entertainment and the dramatic death. It makes it dramatic because of the conflict and tension of the play. The play had bitter sweet catharsis which had a resolution of conflicting emotions and mixed feelings on the play. It was also humorous that was savage and black. The play is on an intellectual level because it picks both sides both sides of the argument and also the audie...
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The Grave Tragedy Of Oedipus King
621 wordsTragedy is one of the most prevalent forms of drama produced around the world. There are certain criteria that a drama has to follow in order for it to be characterized as a Tragedy. The criteria is established by Aristotle and is still being used today. It includes having a tragic hero, hamartia, peripeteia, a plot consisting of a time period of 24 hours, and finally catharsis. Oedipus the King is a great example of a Tragedy written by Sophocles. In the play, Oedipus the King, Oedipus is the t...
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Death Of A Salesman Willy Loman
1,103 words... he still has an affair; this hypocrisy is highlighted by the way this line leads on to a scene with The Woman. Despite telling her that she is "the best" he constantly interrupts her and it's obvious that the household revolves around Willy and his two boys - this is symbolized by the three chairs at the kitchen table. We can also see how Willy is mentally "weak" - he confuses the present with his romanticism past. Linda's "strangely rhythmic" sentence "Attention, attention must be finally p...
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Peace With God Death Penalty
992 wordsThe Penalty of Death Analysis "What I contend is that one of the prime objects of all judicial punishments is to afford the same grateful relief (a) to the immediate victims of the criminal punished, and (b) to the general body of moral and timorous men. " (Mencken, 395). A statement with indefinite proportions, Mencken provides his thesis in a rather unfashionable approach. This quote represents the authors feeling towards the death penalty. He relays that one of the key points of punishing a c...
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Tragic Flaw Heroic Deeds
893 wordsA Comparison of Oedipus and Beowulf The characters Oedipus and Beowulf represent two different types of heroes. Oedipus is a tragic hero and characterized by its standards. He was an influential man of stature who had a tragic flaw. While he contributed to his own downfall, Oedipus was not entirely responsible for it. He also learned a lesson from his mistakes which ultimately creates a catharsis in the reading audience. Beowulf, on the other hand, is characterized by the standards of an epic he...
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Interpersonal Communication Breakfast Club
1,379 wordsThe skills of communication in the movie The Breakfast Club Communication between individuals can occur in many ways but the amount of information revealed can tell you the strength of their relationship. Self-disclosure is this process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and that would not normally be known by others. Some reasons why someone might disclose information would be for catharsis, self-clarification, self-validation, and reciprocity. People disclo...
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Play Oedipus Rex Aristotle Definition
991 wordsThere are many examples of Aristotle's views on tragedy in the play Oedipus Rex. Without these characteristics the play would not be as dramatic and well known today as it was 1500 years ago. These principles of tragedy are not only useful to the plot of the play, but also to our everyday lives. Audiences surely asked themselves, If even the mighty Oedipus can be subjected to such a fate, what can happen to a ordinary person like myself? The relevance to our being now makes us look at the play i...
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Tragic Heroes Western Literature
929 wordsAmy Guy English 2 nd Hr. November 22, 1999 Compare / contrast Oedipus and Creon as Leaders In the plays Oedipus of Rex and Antigone by Sophocles, Oedipus and Creon exert similar characteristics as leaders that ultimately result in their characterization as tragic heroes. Their overbearing determination, relentless pride, uncontrollable fate, and enormous grievances all portray the inevitable outcome. Sophocles writes that the characters in the plays are chasten not because of something they had ...
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Tragic Hero Tragic Flaw
881 wordsDoes King Lear Play the Tragic Hero, or the Autocrat? It is quite possible to make an argument in favour of either answer, an argument that would prove to be quite a debate, although one answer would weigh in favour of the other. To prove this, certain elements would have to be analysed thoroughly, all aspects taken into context and sufficient research done into the matter. This is the only method in which a fair debate of the argument can be taken into consideration. We can only find the answer...
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Mortal Combat Television Violence
2,338 wordsIs societies violence the media? s fault? This is the question that has been asked since before television was in every American? s house. Of course there are the different types of media today ranging from newspapers, to on-line reports and stories. There have been arguments upon arguments about this issue, and over 3, 000 studies conducted. Unfortunately there isn? t one single result, there is only an array of supposed answers to this undying question. CBS president, Howard Stringer is pointi...
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Early In The Play Tragic Flaw
1,492 wordsWilliam Shakespeare's " Othello" presents all of the elements of a great tragedy, according to Aristotle's definition: " A tragedy is the imitation in dramatic form of an action that is serious and complete, with incidents arousing pity and fear wherewith it effects a catharsis of such emotions" (Poetics 14) He also adds, " The language used is pleasurable and throughout, appropriate to the situation in which it is used. " The central features of the Aristotelian ar...
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Violent Video Games Violence On Television
1,178 wordsHow and why does mass media violence affect children? Within a span of a few short years, violent television and video games have increased in popularity dramatically. Yet, the voices of parent s concerned about their affects have also grown louder. In today s society, an average of five or six violent incidents occur every hour on daytime television. And what about cartoons, the most watched shows by children? Cartoon programming contains the most violence, portraying about eighteen acts of agg...
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Lord Of The Rings Readers Attention
982 wordsLord of The Rings A Study of Tolkien's Mythology O, it is excellent To have a giants strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant -William Shakespeare Tolkien's famous book, The Lord of the Rings, has been repudiated as one of the best fantasies ever written. Tolkien creates a very deep intimacy between the book and the reader, he captures the readers attention and lures him into the story. One of the ways how this cathartic relationship is created is through the use of reality of the si...
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Capital Punishment Death Penalty
808 words[ 1 ]-Title, Author, etc. -The Penalty of Death -Written by H. L. Mencken, 1926. [ 2 ]-Thesis -The thesis of the essay is on page 395, and is the last sentence of paragraph 3. It states: What I contend is that one of the prime objects of all judicial punishments is to afford the same grateful relief (a) to the immediate victims of the criminal punished, and (b) to the general body of moral and timorous men. -Means that in the authors point of view, one of the key points of punishing a criminal i...
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