Epic Theater Aristotle was one of the most brilliant playwrights in the history of the world. He believed the theatergoer would identify with the main character and undergo a catharsis while watching the play. Bertolt Brecht believed in a much different way to write a play‚ known as Epic Theater. Epic Theater highlights the problems of society while surrounding the theatergoers with an unrealistic plot. Dr. Strange Love directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ is a perfect example of epic theater the way
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a dollar in his pocket. This fact would serve important in Carnegies epic rise to fortune‚ also in developing such philosophical understandings as‚ The True Gospel of Wealth. Andrew Carnegie was a firm believer in idea of individualism. That everyman must work and rise on his own ambition alone‚ that each man for themselves. In other word‚ he did not believe in the communist thought of working for the wealth of your brotherhood. Carnegie describes it as evolution of the human class. That it is
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father a line of superior children. But the murder of Harrison and his empress shows that in the America of 2081‚ those who are brave enough to show off their gifts will not be allowed to live‚ much less procreate. George Bergeron George is an everyman‚ a character most readers will understand and relate to. Smart and sensitive‚ George has been crippled by the government’s handicapping program. He makes intelligent remarks and thinks analytically about society‚ but his mind is stunted. Every
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the audience is supplied with an array of varying characters. Arthur Miller effectively categorizes the characters of the play into two juxtaposing categories; the accusers‚ and the accused. The accusers are led by the antagonist of the play‚ Abigail Williams‚ whereas the accused are led by the protagonist of the play‚ John Proctor. The audience sympathizes with John Proctor not only because he has been falsely accused‚ but also because he is a representation of the
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be influenced both by what other people do (normative influence—such as why teens start smoking) and by information (informative influence). Who was Stanley Milgram and what did he find? What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon? What is the catharsis hypothesis? What is realistic group conflict theory? What is the difference between social loafing and social facilitation? Emotions James-Lange theory of emotion; Who was William James? What does the amygdala do and what influence does it
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Spectatorship – Game to film adaptations. [Presenter shows slide of {Silent hill‚ Tomb Raider‚ Max Payne‚ Hitman} famous screen shots whilst talking] Presenter: “Games. The height of childhood… Frustration‚ anxiety‚ conquest and success.” Presenter: “But how does that transpire to film?” Presenter: “You would think that the game world and film world are one and the same‚ that they should transfer smoothly to one and another‚ this however is not always the case. According to ratings
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Frozen Tears: Psychodrama in the Resolution of Trauma and Grief By Tian Dayton PhD‚ TEP “The deepest pain has no words‚” echoes the ancient Chinese proverb. Today’s trauma theorists‚ it would seem‚ agree. Time stands still and so do we when something frightening is happening that doesn’t fit into our framework for “normal.” We freeze like a deer in the headlights- locked in a trauma response that was coded into us from the beginning of survival‚ from the earliest development of the human brain
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Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing) or catharsis (as in King Lear‚ Macbeth‚ or Hamlet). Diana figures mostly in the comedies‚ the most blatant example in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We see that Shakespeare often uses the motif of the moon‚ in all of it’s implications and various deities and properties‚ as a plot device to spur his characters‚ in comedy or tragedy‚ into some sort of confusion that leads to laughter or catharsis. Traditionally‚ Western literature has considered the
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“Antigone” is a Greek tragedu by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschyius’ “Seven Against Thebes” ends. “Antigone” is typical of the drama of ancient Greece and there are many evident features that support this. Ancient Greek drama is literary work with dialogue written in verse (really) and by actors such as Creon and Haeman speak in shifted tones of tension that prevail conflict. Another element of Ancient Greek
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event that caused me so much stress was over‚ I walked off the track and discovered I had passed my personal record. Still shaking and exhausted‚ I smiled with content. The feelings and emotions of this event help me to connect to the feeling of catharsis that Oedipus feels in Oedipus the King. When finding out that he may have killed his father and married his mother‚ he is distraught by the accusations. He becomes outraged at Tiresias for telling him and is very upset by
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