his book "Poetics"‚ on what makes it a perfect tragedy. So‚ what is "Oedipus Tyrannus is really about"‚ that still keeps fascinating the intellectuals and readers alike. Is it the developing mystery that captivates audience or the feeling of catharsis effect that readers and audience get after vicariously experiencing the horror and the humiliation that Oedipus feeds at the end of the play or is it mankind’s questioning of Gods and prophecy. Which
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really a tragedy if Macbeth acts out of his own ambition for this event to become his own benefit rather than this event causing great sadness as it should in a tragedy. On the contrary‚ Macbeth is shown as a tragedy with Macbeth being cleansed by a catharsis towards the end of the play which balances his emotions and restores some of his noble character as seen from the beginning of the play. Firstly‚ Aristotle started that there should be six components which should be fulfilled in order to create
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while reading the following that even though heroes come in many forms‚ they more often than not are presented as courageous‚ heroic‚ likeable‚ and believable. The essay will be broken down into the discussion of underdog heroes‚ superheroes‚ and everyman heroes. By explaining the need for these vastly different types of movie heroes it will become easy to understand why people find them appealing. Almost everyone has at some point or another felt held down by some form of oppression making it easy
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to write a great tragedies and/or poetry. Two important topics that Aristotle addresses and believes to be crucial to the art work is the mimesis‚ or imitation of life‚ and that the audience has an emotional response from the work of art‚ or a catharsis. Both William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare were believers in Aristotle’s philosophy concerning tragedies and poetry‚ and employed these two elements within their works of art. The basic definition for mimesis is the act of creating an image
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conflicting values that influence the response of humanity towards personalities‚ situations and events. William Shakespeare identifies his conflicting perspectives with 16th Century English society by utilising the concept of everyman. Brutus represents ‘everyman’ within the drama allowing the audience to associate and relate this is shown significantly in Act 3 Scene 1. Shakespeare employs symbolism and imagery depicting a man’s lust for blood and violence “let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s
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Glossary of Literary terms – Drama Act-: A lengthy segment of a play‚ comprising several scenes. A major division in a play. Each act may have one or more scenes. Greek plays were performed as continuous wholes‚ with interpolated comment from the Chorus. Horace appears to have been the first to insist on a five-act structure. At some stage during the Renaissance the use of five acts become standard practice among French dramatists. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries have natural
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support her proposal that everyman can and will commit torturous acts. Marianne Szegedy- Maszak lacked enough evidence in this article to persuade people to believe that the average person is evil. She had valid points; however‚ she didn’t use a variety of supportive material. Marianne didn’t use any facts to back up her peculation besides psychological experiments performed in the early 1970s. All of the facts in this article are bias favoring her theory that everyman is evil and not presenting
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spectator? Pathos is important to the objective ad purpose of the tragedy because it gives the spectator a feeling towards the tragic hero and their tragedy. Usually feelings of pity or fear. e) Discuss catharsis in terms of the effects tragedy seeks to produce in the spectator? Catharsis helps the spectator understand the tragic hero by helping the spectator be able to experience/relate to the words and the actions of the tragic hero. f) What is the relation‚ if any‚ drawn by Aristotle between
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audience must experience catharsis by encountering feelings of pity and fear. Even though Shakespeare’s Othello does include most of the requirements of an Aristotelian Tragedy it lacks a few elements‚ such as a hamartia and an anagnorises as well as catharsis. Othello’s downfall is not brought upon himself instead Iago’s manipulation is the cause‚ therefore the play does not fulfill Aristotle’s standards of a Tragedy. Although the audience fails to experience catharsis at the end of the play‚ Othello
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revealed. After reading the plays Oedipus Rex‚ by Sophacles‚ and comparing it with Romeo and Juliet‚ by Shakespeare‚ Oedipus Rex is the better tragedy because Oedipus endures uncommon suffering‚ experiences reversal of fortune‚ and the feeling of catharsis for the audience is much greater. Oedipus Rex’s suffering was far more uncommon than that of Romeo and Juliet’s. “I was doomed to lie with my mother” (Sophacles 6). It was destined that Oedipus would marry and sleep with his mother after taking
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