Sharareh Rafieipour Dr. Agnes Yeow Swee Kim Drama of the Modern Era 2 December. 2012 Modern Drama; The spectacle of language breaking down and the explosion of the hysteria underlying the polite banalities of social intercourse To be modern is to be‚ in many important ways‚ different from anyone who ever lived before. This idea does not mean that human being has undergone a change; man’s nature is always the same‚ but his perception of himself has distorted in a way that is significantly
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needs before their own. Selfish parents would rather buy materialistic items for themselves than anything useful for their children. In Sophocles’s "Oedipus Rex‚" the protagonist is literally blinded by his own arrogance. This attitude begins before he even travels to Thebes‚ and that is apparent due to the circumstances of his father’s death. Oedipus seals his own fate with his egotistical attitude and he cannot change his destiny after everything is set into motion. During his journey on the road
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Aristotle on Friendship Friendship is a bond in which many individuals make every effort to achieve‚ although the meaning of it is not known to them. Individuals surround themselves with other humans‚ their friends‚ in order to achieve a greater happiness. It has become part of human nature. Friendship has become such a part of human nature that it can be seen in examples such as a human’s hierarchy of needs created by Maslow1. Constantly individuals strive to broaden their
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On Drama Translation Like their contemporary prose translators who were introducing Western fiction to China‚ budding dramatists were enthusiastic about bringing Western plays to the Chinese stage. The first play was staged in Japan from an adaptation of Lin Shu ’s translation of Uncle Tom ’s Cabin. A Chinese student in Japan named Li Shutong adapted the script. The play was put on by members of the Chun Liu (Spring Willow) Drama Society. Their performance marked a complete break from traditional
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The ultimate tragedy where a man named Oedipus marries his own mother and kills his own father. Oedipus is a man born to king Laius with a prophecy that he will kill his own father. In a desperate attempt to avoid this they abandon him on a mountain. Oedipus and his real father will cross paths once again and have a fight that will leave the king of Laius dead. Oedipus will go to thebes and defeat the sphinx and become the king. Peace doesn’t last long when a plague devastated the city until the
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Plato and Aristotle Plato and Aristotle were two philosophers who made an impact on philosophy as we know it as today. Plato is thought of as the first political philosopher and Aristotle as the first metaphysical philosopher. They were both great intellectuals in regards to being the first of the great western philosophers. Plato and Aristotle each had ideas in how to better life by improving the societies in which they were part of during their lives. The views of Plato and Aristotle look different
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Philosophies of Aristotle and Plato Plato and Aristotle both have been very influential as the ancient Greek philosophers. Aristotle was a student of Plato and there are many similarities between these intellectual giants of the ancient world but there are also many things that distinguish them from each other. Aristotle was far more empirical-minded than Plato. First‚ Plato’s philosophy relegated the material‚ physical world to a sort of metaphysical second class. His contention was that the
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the downfall of a tragic hero within a piece of literature. In the play Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus is a tragic hero with a hamartia that leads to his inevitable downfall. He possesses three traits that have been debated on to be his hamartia: his hubris (excessive pride)‚ his heinous temperament‚ and his consummate determination. Of these three traits Oedipus possesses‚ I’ve believe that his hamartia is his profligate pride. Oedipus was a proud man. After all‚ who wouldn’t be proud of defeating a Sphinx
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What is Realism? Realism is the movement toward representing reality as it actually is‚ in art. Realistic drama is an attempt to portray real life on stage‚ a movement away from the conventional melodramas and sentimental comedies of the 1700s. It is expressed in theatre through the use of symbolism‚ character development‚ stage setting and storyline and is exemplified in plays such as Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters. The arrival of realism was indeed good
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Medieval Drama Jugglers‚ folk- plays‚ pageants: The beginning of the Middle Ages started by the fall of the Roman Empire. The corrupt Roman drama had come to an end‚ and the actors became some disreputable jugglers and inferior minstrels who wandered all over the country. The performances of these social outcasts were crude and immoral. However‚ they continued for centuries‚ because they were the only source for dramatic spectacle. Other sources of amusement too can be found in the country
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