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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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Illegal Abortions Pro Choice
1,044 wordsAbortion in America is a controversial issue in which both sides have valid arguments at face value. The pro-choice side has many arguments to support it belief in keeping abortion legal. Many of these are faulty, and argue point's irrelevant to the issue, as I will attempt to illustrate, thereby eliminating the main pro-choice arguments. The pro-life position has somewhat different ideas. The most popular of these is: The unborn entity is fully human from the moment of conception. Abortion resu...
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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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Socrates Believes Socrates Claims
1,727 wordsThe Apology is Socrates' defense at his trial. As the dialogue begins, Socrates notes that his accusers have cautioned the jury against Socrates " eloquence, according to Socrates, the difference between him and his accusers is that Socrates speaks the truth. Socrates distinguished two groups of accusers: the earlier and the later accusers. The earlier group is the hardest to defend against, since they do not appear in court. He is all so accused of being a Sophist: that he is a teacher and take...
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Lend Our Pity Influenced By Iago Desdemona
321 wordsThis question plagues the mind of a reader. In reading fiction, ones first reaction is always to seek out a character with whom they can relate, who they can support, who they can side with. The play, Othello poses quite a confusing collection of possibilities for this. Shall we lend our pity to the title character, Othello -- a valiant Moor who is held in incredibly high esteem by all who know him, yet is influenced by Iago to suspect his wife, Desdemona of infidelity. Or should our pity be len...
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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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Horrors Of War Wilfred Owen
984 wordsDoes Owens poetry do more than offer the reader an insight into the horrors of war? Discuss with reference to at least two poems. Wilfred Owen is arguable the greatest of the world war one poets. This is a man who through personal experience offers us not only insight into the astro cities of war but also illustrates the struggle of nature and the mental state these men cross into on the battle field. In Spring Offensive, Owen mixes the ideas of war and nature in a conversational tone unlike Fut...
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Heaven And Hell Songs Of Experience
1,259 wordsIn this essay I will be discussing, firstly, and in the context of my vague understanding of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century society in Britain, the criticism of dominant middle-class thought that William Blake presents in Songs of Experience. I understand that perhaps less than thirty copies of this were ever printed in Blakes lifetime, so any challenge to contemporary conventional thinking was largely unheard, but this does not invalidate exploring the social conditions and attit...
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Lady Macbeth Wife Death
1,675 wordsEvil, both internal and external corrupts their minds, distorting their positive traits and exaggerating their worst. Both fall victim to 'vaulting ambition', pride and greed, tempting them to acts of treason and betrayal of friends, kinsman and the nation itself. Warfare on the battlefield mirrors the metaphorical warfare being played out between the forces of good and evil within them. Spurred by ambition, supernatural solicitation and by the taunting of his wife, Macbeth deliberately chooses ...
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Death Of A Salesman Pity And Terror
1,119 wordsDeath of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy. A challenge to Philip Sydney's judgement that "tragedy concerned the high fellow" Death of a Salesman is the tragedy of the common man of the low-man. Many critics charge that Death of a Salesman falls short of tragedy and is therefore disqualified as a "great" play. Tragedy is developed as a form of drama that incorporates incidents arousing pity and fear, to accomplish the catharsis of such emotions. The anc...
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Laws Of Nature Good And Evil
2,560 wordsFinal Paper (1) Friedrich Nietzsche is being rightly referred to as one of the most progressive philosophers of 19 th century. He was the first thinker of high social standing, who had courage to publicly oppose Christian obscurity, as such that is counter-productive, in evolutionary sense of this word. Therefore, we can say that his intellectual contribution to cultural and scientific progress, with which we associate 20 th century, was indispensable. It will not be an exaggeration to suggest t...
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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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Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy
1,280 wordsThe short story, " The Death of Ivan Ilych" , written by Leo Tolstoy, is about the reactions of a man and his friends to his suffering and death. Everyone who knows Ivan including Ivan himself has led a life of total disconcert for the feelings and sufferings of others. They all lead shallow lives not daring to probe into the feelings deep down inside for fear of stepping outside the lines of propriety. That is the biggest rule that people of that society follow. Do not say or show wha...
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Don Quixote Knight Errant
2,240 wordsIn medieval times, knight-errant's roamed the countryside of Europe, rescuing damsels and vanquishing evil lords and enchanters. This may sound absurd to many people in this time, but what if a person read so many books about these so-called knight-errant's that he could not determine the real from that which was read? Such is the case in The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes which takes place probably some time in the fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries. Don Quixote, formerly Qui...
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Oedipus The King Fear And Pity
1,634 wordsComparing and Contrasting the Purposes and Methods of Communication of three important literary works: The Iliad, Oedipus the King, and Aristotle's Poetics. Upon reading a piece of literature, one of the first things a reader does is to identify the purpose and the mode of communication employed by the author. This knowledge is extremely important in order to fully understand the complete message presented by the author. This essay will treat three major literary works taken from Greek culture: ...
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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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J R R Tolkien Good Versus Evil
2,417 wordsImagine yourself in a pre-industrial world full of mystery and magic. Imagine a world full of monsters, demons, and danger, as well as a world full of friends, fairies, good wizards, and adventure. In doing so you have just taken your first step onto a vast world created by author and scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien became fascinated by language at an early age during his schooling, in particularly, the languages of Northern Europe, both ancient and modern. This affinity for language ...
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Notre Dame Illegal Aliens
3,062 wordsPatrick Modern Monsters AUTHOR: Patrick McCormick TITLE: Why modern monsters have become alien to us SOURCE: U. S. Catholic v 61 p 37 - 41 N 96 The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. Late autumn has arrived and with it comes the dark magic of Halloween and, of course, the murky thrill of monsters. Yet our appetite for a good monster knows no season. Ever...
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Reign In Hell Tragic Flaw
2,324 wordsA tragedy can come in a variety of forms, but is usually the end result of an imperfection that the protagonist cannot overcome, a tragic flaw. In John Milton's poem, Paradise Lost, Satan succumbs to his own vaulting ambition to be equal in power and glory to God. As a result of this perverse ambition, his actions lead to the greatest tragedy ever, the downfall of numerous angels and the race of mankind. Satan, however, is not concerned with the fact that he is responsible for the loss of paradi...
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