the world’s greatest playwright‚ has revolutionized the world of English literature with his plays. Some of these plays are clear-cut comedies and tragedies‚ while others are more ambiguous. The Merchant of Venice is a play that falls under the latter type‚ and it has been hotly contested whether this literary work should be classified a comedy or a tragedy. However‚ since the majority of the characters received a happy ending‚ the abundance of comic relief scenes and characters‚ and lightheartedness
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Austin. This letter offers my full support to Dr. Natalie Czimskey‚ whom I have known for five years as a student at The University of Texas at Austin. I am pleased to recommend Dr. Czimskey for this award. I completed both Introduction to Speech‚ Language‚ and Hearing Sciences in 2018 and Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing Mechanism in 2020 with Dr. Czimskey during my time as an undergraduate student. Whether her class was at 8 a.m. or 12 p.m.‚ Dr. Czimskey showed up with the excitement of
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Consistency in Dr. Tom Stockmann In Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People‚ Dr. Stockmann is first introduced as an intelligent doctor and scientist who appears to live in constant high spirits. Miller describes him as “the eternal amateur- a lover of things‚ of people‚ of sheer living‚ a man for whom the days are too short‚ and the future fabulous with discoverable joys” (Miller‚ 6). Upon receiving his results from the university regarding the condition of the
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Montagues. During the time period when the Montagues and Capulets lived‚ they believed that whatever arises amid their lives is imminent and all events are predetermined and arranged before them like a road map to life; otherwise known as‚ fate. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare supports that humans are sentenced to an inevitable fate through symbolism‚ the character of Romeo and irony. Throughout the play‚ Shakespeare uses symbolism to exemplify how fate is inevitable. The biggest symbol
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A Modern Tragedy A form of drama in which a person of superior intelligence and character is overcome by the very obstacles he/she is struggling to remove defines a tragedy as most people know it. However‚ tragedy can reflect another aspect of life: the tragedies of the common people. Heroic behavior in these instances may at times be impossible. We expect‚ from reading the first tragedies‚ that only kings or nobility can be tragic heroes. Arthur Miller himself said‚ "I believe that the common
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A Modern Tragedy Throughout the history of American literature‚ stories of the white knight saving the damsel in distress and riding off into the sunset to live happily ever after have plagued our shelves for centuries. The birth of the modern tragedy came in the late 19th century and early 20th century with novels such as Red badge of Courage‚ and All Quiet on the Western Front. They show the realism of war and the harass tragedy that comes with it. Ernest Hemingway was a product of war himself
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Dr. Eli Jones Estevanica Jackson April 16‚ 2012 Dr. Eli Jones is a graduate of Texas A & M College‚ where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a PhD in Business. He is a native of Houston‚ Texas and now resides in Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana. Dr. Jones is currently Dean of LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business and the E.J. Ourso Distinguished Professor of Business. Dr. Jone’s topic of discussion was about sales‚ marketing‚ and leadership
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In the play "Hamlet" written by William Shakespeare‚ is a play that revolves around tragedy and revenge and this revenge leads to Hamlets death and people that were close to him. Hamlet’s pursuit to revenge his father’s death blinded his morals and intelligence and lead to his untimely death. It can be argued that Hamlet is the most complex character Shakespeare has ever written‚ there has been many debates revolving around his insanity (real or fake). The progression of Hamlet is quite astonishing
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A tragedy‚ at its core‚ is a story in which the central characters meet an unhappy or disastrous end. But there is much more to it than that. The playwright artfully creates the storyline in a way that this outcome is the pinnacle of despair after a long‚ equally harrowing passage. William Shakespeare has written many well-known plays‚ which have stood the test of time and are still popular today. As one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies‚ Romeo and Juliet follows the ill-fated story of the two
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Who is responsible for the tragedy in the play? Othello the tragic hero is responsible for his own downfall due to his imprudent choices. It was the wrong choices that made Othello weak. Othello‚ the main character in this play is known for his moral nobility‚ highlighted by the fact that he is of a different race from those around him. Despite this‚ Iago manipulates Othello into believing that his wife‚ Desdemona had pursued a secret relationship and has been unfaithful to Othello. Othello is
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