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Greek And Roman Character Types
683 wordsWhen watching the television show Gilligan's Island there are some features that are reminiscent of the Greek and Roman theatre. For example, the opening credits on Gilligan's Island explain the story of what events took place before the action of the show starts to kind of catch the audience up to speed and give them a little background to help them understand what the situation is when the episode begins. This is similar to the role that the Greek chorus played. They served, partly, as narrato...
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Music Ethnography Of Jazz Culture In Charlottesville Virginia
1,319 words... has always represented a social party, and it still is today, although it has become slightly more of an elite club. But, between the atmosphere around the musicians and the audience, they all understand themselves, the music and the community (David Ake). Furthermore the listeners understand whats going on in their communities and they each fit in. As the band starts to play Jeff Decker the saxophone player leads the group of with the main melody and they begin to jam. Most of the forms of ...
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Oedipus Ironic Tragic Tale Play By Sophocles
820 wordsIn the play Oedipus by Sophocles, Oedipus's elf-destruction and fall from power leaves him as the villain and not the hero in the play. The very thing he fights so hard to discover is what leads to his self-destruction. Therefore, we tend to feel sorrow for Oedipus seeing that it was only the fate of the G-ds and the oracles. Oedipus is a tragic hero who fails to achieve happiness in such a way that it brings upon fear and pity by everyone in the highest degree. Tell me, and never doubt that I w...
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Nubians Singing Chorus Guru Les Nubians Singing Chorus Guru People
443 wordsAbout pain and heartache, ain't nothing you can tell her The case worker says that she should find a job But does this worker know what kind of jobs that there are? Degrading things like cleaning up people's vomit For a little bit of dough, and plus your brain gets nothing from it I'm smarter than that this girl thinks to herself I'm worth more than that, she thinks to herself She pours a drink for herself while she stares out the window This guy says he got work for her, maybe she should go to ...
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Persia Is Ruined Persians
757 wordsThe ghost of King Darius is seen to be unaware of the loss, but when he does learn of it, he blames his son Xerxes for the failure. He places the blame for the defeat squarely in the hands of the Persians, stating that What is this unexpected ill that weighs the Persians down? [Line 694 ] Obviously, we are meant to accept his version of events: that there is an ill that is plaguing the country, and that that is why they have lost the battle. Queen Atossa agrees with him, lamenting that: O you wh...
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Tragic Hero March 2006
327 wordsLike all bad politicians, the chorus of elders looks back to the good old days when a better king ruled their kingdom, and opine that if he had still been there, Persia would not have lost the war: Oh yes, it was in truth a glorious and good life under civil government that we enjoyed so long as our aged and all-powerful king, who did no wrong and did not favor war, god-like Darius, ruled the realm. [Lines 854 - 57 ] the phrase aged and all-powerful seems an oxymoron, and implies that the chorus...
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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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Plan To Kill Cold Blooded
1,125 wordsThe story of Medea is about a woman of extreme behavior and extreme emotion. His passionate love for Jason is immeasurable to the point that she sacrificed all; even committing unspeakable acts on his behalf. And when her husband married the daughter of Creon (a betrayal that killed her), the passionate love was transformed into rage. Her once formerly devoted faithful and dedicated heart has turned violent and unbalanced set on nothing but his destruction. The Greeks were always interested in v...
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Stay At Home Common Interests
549 wordsIt goes without saying that the happiest women are those having little children. Young mother can look at her baby for hours watching its first steps, listening to the first words. But time flies and a mother face a usual question: either to get the 3 years old child to the kinder garden or to stay at home with it. According to the modern psychology, the period of 2 - 5 years is the most important for a child. A young person meets the situations that will influence all his future life. And of co...
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Friedrich Nietzsche Greek Tragedy
1,708 wordsNietzsche paper The book, written by Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy in the 19 th century, has been discussed for many years by many philosophers. It was a great work full of interesting thoughts concerning the history of the Greek tragedy. The book had a great influence on Western intellectual world. Friedrich Nietzsche's work is not only about the history of the tragedy but he showed the difference as well as the equality between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. The author was sure t...
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House Of Atreus Immanuel Kant
903 wordsThe Role of Cassandra in the Oresteia Trilogy Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant, Crooked Timber of Humanity The character Cassandra in Aeschylus classic trilogy, The Oresteia, plays a small yet acutely important role in the advancement of the entire drama. Cassandra appears only in the first book, Agamemnon, but her prophetic visions and declarations concerning the House of Atreus ring true throughout the work, and prov...
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Eye For An Eye Seek Revenge
969 wordsAn eye for an eye seems to be a phrase that people will always live by. Any person that has wrong done to them seeks revenge and justice. If they dont take action than they at least have some thought of vengeance. Women, historically more than men, seem to abide by this saying. Greek tragedy is a perfect example of how women seek vengeance. Clytemnestra, Medea, and Antigone all seek revenge and justice to keep their pride and to prove themselves towards their foes and enemies. When a childs life...
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Antigone Tragic Hero
848 wordsJames Monahan Mrs. Mc Nicholas English 4 AP 11 December 2000 Creon as Tragic Hero Since the play? s inception, there has always existed a contention concerning the true hero of Sophocles? Antigone. It is a widely held belief that Antigone must be the main character simply because she and the drama share name. This is, of course, a very logical assumption. Certainly Sophocles must have at least meant her to be viewed as the protagonist, else he would not have given her the play? s title. Analytic...
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History Of Drama Plays Based Action
294 words1. Write a brief history of drama from its beginnings to the twentieth century. Drama is defined by Aristotle as a criticism of life, on a stage, with action, characters and dialogue. The Greek word for deed or action is dram. In traditional Greek drama, the chorus is also considered as a character in the development of the plot. The chorus moves the action of the play along and sometimes acts as a commentator on the decisions made by the characters on stage. Drama has its roots in Greece with t...
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Didn T Care Find Meaning
583 wordsDMX-Dmx Music Project- essay DMX- Slippin The song Slippin by artist DMX uses tone, theme and imagery. DMX s purpose for writing this song was to convey the theme how life in the streets is, and how you can over come life with drugs if you give it all you got. The song begins with the speaker talking about problems he is having with his mom, and that s when he decides to run away from home. Then it moves on to when he is on the streets by himself, and that is when his problems begin to worsen. I...
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Plays Were Performed Odyssey And The Iliad Greek
302 wordsIn early Greece, most drama and poetry grew from Athenian celebrations honoring the god of wine, Dionysus. Greek plays were performed outdoors to an all male audience. The plays were performed in theaters that were built into hillsides. All ofthe actors were also male, and they had a chorus which explained the play as intent. The actors wore high boots and intricate costumes, while the chorus just wore normal clothes. Most early Greek plays were tragedies and usually ended in a disaster. Tragedi...
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Style Of Music Italian Opera
588 wordsGeorge Frideric Handel, certainly one of the founding fathers of music, introduced new types of music and affected the many composers who followed him. Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, a town in Germany. He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained in law. Handel played the organ, violin, harpsichord, and composed songs. His music influenced that of Mozart and maybe even Beethoven. The other famous composer of Handel's time was Bach. They mad...
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Theatre South Australia State Theatre South Australia Alan
943 wordsMartin Dysart, child psychiatrist, is on a quest to discover why a confused, passionate 17 year old boy named Alan, has savagely blinded six horses with a spike. The discovery of this forms Peter Shaffer? s brutal play? Equus? . ? Equus? , meaning horse in Latin, was performed by State Theatre of South Australia and directed by Marion Potts. Although written in the 1970? s many of the issues raised are highly relevant to today? s audience. The emotional impact of the play remains intact and cont...
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Harper And Row Substance Abuse
887 wordsSusan Griffin was born on January 26, 1943, Los Angeles, California the second daughter of Walden and Sarah (Colvin) Griffin. Susan Griffin has 25 years of human services experience, with degrees in child development, music, psychology and behavioral science. She is completing her Ph. D. in clinical psychology with an emphasis in child and family. She has specialized training in parenting, child development, substance abuse, and music / art work with children. In addition to 25 years of work as ...
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Electric Guitar First Verse
442 wordsDec 2000 In The Air Tonight Phil Collins In The Air Tonight is a strophic composition produced by Phil Collins. The aria consists of an electronic drum set an electric guitar and a prophet to add an additional fullness to the song. The exposition of the monody is at an adagio tempo. The electronic drum kit repeats a drum pattern with 12 drum hits in each loop, while accenting on every third beat {eg 22 - 1 - 2 | 122 - 1 - 2 }. In the middle of the first loop the electric guitar roars a triple st...
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