Barbara F McManus (1999) outlines Aristotle’s view from ‘The Poetics’‚ stating that a tragic hero will “mistakenly bring on his own downfall”. How do Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare’s Hamlet characters relate to this? I personally believe that this statement is true‚ as all tragic heroes present to the audience a flaw that they have‚ that will later bring on their downfall. Doctor Faustus and Hamlet are both examples of this. Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe
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Barbra Lazear Ascher’s “The Boxman” is a composition about loneliness and different aspects of it. Ascher takes loneliness and portrays it in different characters such as the Box Man‚ the lady in the coffee shop and the lady in in her apartment. She shows that the simplicity of chosen loneliness is less painful than the complications of loneliness forced upon you. Ascher describes the Box Man to be content with his life. His boxes are more than enough for him and are described as
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loneliness‚ was a woman in a coffee shop‚ she dwelled through her loneliness. She had no peers in her life‚ and spent most of her time dragging on a coffee at the coffee shop‚ just to be surrounded by people. Purpose and Audience 1. Barbara Lazear Ascher wrote this essay to help audiences see the difference between chosen and unchosen loneliness. With a numerous amount of examples she shows the reader the difference between someone who willingly chooses to live life alone‚ and people who find
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Bibliography “On Compassion” Ascher‚ Barbara. “On Compassion”. 5O Essays. Ed. Samuel Cohen. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin ’s‚ 2004. 35-38. Print. Barbara Ascher’s essay offers examples of everyday life in New York City to support her thoughts about compassion. She uses two different encounters to back up her arguments and points. The first encounter involved a woman‚ with a child‚ giving money to a homeless person as he starred at the precious child. Ascher questioned as to why the woman
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human society‚ man is surrounded by those less privileged‚ those in a state of desperation. In her piece “On Compassion”‚ Barbara Ascher describes brief scenes that capture the basis of transaction between the helpless and those in a position to give help‚ arguing that the only way society can achieve true compassion is by truly identifying with the suffering of others. Ascher observes the world around her as a member of society‚ describing encounters between those in a place of misery and those
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to sorting out the boxes par. 5 Box Man sets up his box home par. 6 Describes the Box Man as a normal casual person par. 7 Concludes that the Box Man’s life is normal par. 8 The main point of the essay that one chooses to be alone par. 9 Barbara Ascher compares her life with the novel‚ The Boxcar Children par. 10 Explains the comparison par. 11 The Boxcar Children and the Box Man have simple lives par. 12 The Box Man has a life of the mind and he chooses solitude. par. 13 Shows the difference
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lonely and in need of a friend. This assumption is flawed‚ as their is both chosen and unchosen solitude‚ as expressed in Barbara Ascher’s essay‚ “The Box Man‚” from her book Playing After Dark. Through the juxtaposition of the homeless man and the two lonesome women‚ accompanied by an admirative tone used in regard to the homeless man and a tone of sympathy toward the women‚ Ascher expresses the idea that one’s material standing in society is irrelevant to one’s state of mind
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Kaitlyn Riesland English 101 T.McCann October 2‚ 2012 Summary Response 2 Summary & Response: Barbara Lazear “On Compassion” In “On Compassion” Barbara Lazear shows three main examples on how people in the Manhattan area show compassion for the homeless people in their community. After she gives the three main examples she then goes on to question whether they are actually showing compassion or if they are showing pity‚ care‚ or simply just selfishness. She also goes on to wondering if
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pervaded film writing for almost a century and instead sought after a more accurate‚ less inadequate reason for the illusion of motion in motion pictures. Namely‚ these film scholars were the duos of Bill Joseph and Susan J. Lederman and Joseph and Barbara Anderson‚ both of whose accounts on the matter were published in The Cinematic Apparatus in 1980‚ but which have remained largely and peculiarly ignored ever since. Their compellingly convincing‚ scientifically accurate research and explanations
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Homeless Imagine you are homeless. You have no money‚ no job‚ and‚ obviously‚ no home. Every day you wake up‚ grab your sign‚ and stand on a corner. Sometimes people stop‚ but most of the time‚ cars whiz past you without thinking twice. Now imagine you are homeless‚ but this time it is during the Depression. How is it different? Do people help you in the same way as they would in today’s society? Our society’s attitudes towards homelessness and poverty are both similar and different than society’s
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