involves the tragic hero understanding what has happened and he submits to his fate. If the play has happened as it should‚ then the audience should experience emotions of pity and fears. The purpose of tragedy was to bring about a cleansing or catharsis of these feeling.
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inadequate for one person to scream across a theatre‚ that has a capacity of 25‚000. I always used to get out of a cinema after watching a movie sometimes inspired or sometimes despondent I felt wiser and even like a lunatic sometime. Ishaan spoke about catharsis the effect‚ which movies have on us‚ the mark it leaves and how we feel about it. Drama is a way of teaching and educating people‚ whether its tragedy or comedy it is meant to educate us teach us about life so that we learn without experiencing
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influences‚ the symbolic reference the human psyche makes and associates itself with popular culture‚ the trends and fads that encapsulates and drives consumerism becomes the reason why popular culture is- popular. Essentially‚ it provides the ideal catharsis‚ for human emotions to be well exploited. As such‚ popular culture has progressively been shaped by human desires; a development of niche tampered and propelled further by the mass media. This is a far cry from “mass culture.” More importantly‚
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Throughout Chapter 14 of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale ‚ Atwood focuses on fertility and rebellion as a central theme. For example when Offred says on page 80 “ I would like to steal something from this room.I would like to take some small thing…” ‚ in otherwords Offred strolls down the stairs to the living room‚ where she stoops in her doled out area for the Ceremony and thinks about stealing something which proves that Offred is planning an act of rebellion against the household.In spite of
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Trevor Gillette 6/16/2011 Paper #1: Machiavelli and Hobbes These two famous philosophers‚ Machiavelli and Hobbes‚ lived a century apart from one another‚ but both still had to live during difficult times. Machiavelli the writer of The Prince was from Italy‚ where as Hobbes who wrote the Leviathan came from England. Because both lived in hard times you can see why they would have similar political views‚ however due to the fact that they were a century apart and came from different cultures
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infested high life of 1980s Miami‚ the film chronicles the rise and fall of the fictional Cuban drug lord Tony Montana‚ portrayed by Al Pacino (giving what is considered the most memorable performance of his career). Pacino embodies the underdog‚ the everyman‚ the fish out of water in a new world‚ 1980 Florida to be precise. From the opening title montage‚ to the climactic final showdown‚ screenwriter Oliver Stone gives a very raw and realistic depiction of the struggle to obtain the American Dream
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Beowulf exercises violence for the glory and treasure of the king; his battle with Grendel is one of the most violent scene in the story. Beowulf does not carry any sort of weapon because he feels that doing so provides him with an unfair advantage over the unarmed Grendel. This shows Beowulf’s heroic nature. As all the warriors are asleep‚ Beowulf waits patiently. He pretends to sleep when Grendel enters the mead-hall. After Grendel devours some of the warriors‚ he makes a wrong move and goes for
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change‚ that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is‚ but the world as it will be.... This‚ in turn‚ means that our statesmen‚ our businessmen‚ our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking Read more at http://quotes.dictionary.com/subject/change?page=3#XdQLwzfXFHgUgpu1.99 Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born‚ and go through our changes in a similar
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The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars fought on American soil. The Civil War was a fight between the North and the South. This war lasted for four years from 1861 to 1865. This war has many reasons why it began. Some believe that the war started because of slavery. Those people believe the Civil War started on how the North and south had different views on slavery. Also the events that showed something had to be done. The North thought of slavery was wrong and believed that all men should be
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Discussing Pink Floyd and The Wall Rock Opera Pink Floyd’s "the Wall" is arguably one of the most intriguing and imaginative albums in the history of rock music. Since its release in 1979‚ and the subsequent movie of 1982‚ the Wall has become synonymous with‚ if not the very definition of‚ the term "concept album." Aurally explosive on record and visually explosive on the screen‚ the Wall traces the life of the fictional protagonist‚ Pink Floyd‚ from his boyhood days in war-torn
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