APPRECIATING DANCE Dance - is an art and a recreation that involves the rhythmical movement of the body‚ usually with music‚ to express an idea or emotion‚ to narrate a story or simply enjoy and take pleasure in the movement itself - As an art‚ a dance may tell a story‚ set a mood or express an emotion - As a form of recreation‚ it has provided fun‚ relaxation‚ and companionship -As an art it started from the moment it was harnessed to a rhythm‚ probably the stamping of the feet and clapping
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Joseph Andrewsis a picaresque novel of the road; the title page tells us that it was "Written in Imitation of the Manner of CERVANTES‚ Author of Don Quixote." Despite its looseness of construction‚ however‚ Joseph Andrews does make a deliberate move from the confusion and hypocrisy of London to the open sincerity of the country; one might perhaps apply Fielding’s own words in a review he wrote of Charlotte Lennox’sThe Female Quixote: ". . . here is a regular story‚ which‚ though possibly it is not
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American International Journal of Research in Humanities‚ Arts and Social Sciences Available online at http://www.iasir.net ISSN (Print): 2328-3734‚ ISSN (Online): 2328-3696‚ ISSN (CD-ROM): 2328-3688 AIJRHASS is a refereed‚ indexed‚ peer-reviewed‚ multidisciplinary and open access journal published by International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (IASIR)‚ USA (An Association Unifying the Sciences‚ Engineering‚ and Applied Research) ‘Theurgism’ in the Fictional World
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People tend to view tragedy in cataclysmic and catastrophic terms. Every night on the news we hear murders‚ assassinations and bombings referred to as Atragedies.@ Tragedy need not be an event which affects the community at large. Rather‚ any event which teaches an important lesson to a specific person or a group of people can be viewed as a type of tragedy. While the Greek tragedies focused upon the catastrophic nature of tragedy‚ The Biblical Book of Genesis provides the reader with another
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Shakespeare uses vivid and powerful forms of imagery to let the audience visualize the setting. Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a strong woman who is attracted to power and would do anything to be in control; she is anything but an elegant and sensitive woman. After the bloodshed begins‚ however‚ Lady Macbeth falls an easy prey to insanity and guilt. Her soliloquy (5.1.24-30) shows her decline into madness when she says‚“out damned spot...” There are many examples of visual and aural imagery throughout
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In Ken Goffman’s Counterculture Through The Ages‚ Goffman cites Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound‚ in which Prometheus boasts that he “… brought humanity: architecture—‘they knew not how to build brick houses… they lived like swarming ants in sunless caves’; calenders—‘they had no certain mark of [the seasons]… until I showed
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Aristophanes (c.447-c.380 BC) was an ancient Athenian playwright and his plays are the extant example of Attic Old Comedy. He wrote during the Golden Age of Athens (c. 5th Century BC)‚ a period of political hegemony‚ and survived the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) among other events that shaped the social and political messages behind his plays. Regarded by many as the Father of Comedy‚ Aristophanes used a range of humor devices in his plays‚ such as Wasps (422 BC)‚ Frogs (405 BC)‚ to provide socio-political
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of the AthenianAcropolis. With its enemies under its feet and its political fortunes guided by statesman and orator Pericles‚ Athens produced some of the most influential and enduring cultural artifacts of the Western tradition. The playwrights Aeschylus‚ Sophocles and Euripides all lived and worked in fifth century Athens‚ as did the historians Herodotus and Thucydides‚ the physician Hippocrates‚ and the philosopher Socrates. Overview During the golden age‚ Athenian military and external affairs
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the chorus singing to honor Dionysus started the theater. The Athens spread the plays around to their allied city-states. This created a common ground to share stories about the Gods. Another play that featured the Gods was the three tragedians Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides. There are two different kinds of Greek plays. The two types of plays are tragedy and comedy plays. The theaters were built on the slopes of hills. There were three different parts of the theater. They were the orchestra
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The factors that led to the possibility of producing wine in Greece are the presence of the wild Eurasian grape vine‚ the availability of cereal crops to provide year round food reserves for wine-making communities‚ and the invention of pottery‚ instrumental for making‚ storing‚ and serving wine. Grapevines were grown alongside olives‚ wheat‚ and barley. Moreover‚ the attempts to store grapes or grape juice for long periods in pottery vessels resulted in wine. Wine was plentiful enough to be widely
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