Acknowledged by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy‚ conventional wisdom has it that the Dionysian spirit is characterized by its insanity whereas the Apollonian one is typified by its rationality. These features appear in one of Euripides’ plays where Medea‚ princess of the Kingdom of Colchis‚ kills her own child by hand. The point of the argument is; did she do it on purpose or not? Or in other words‚ was her act rational or insane? In their journal‚ Shams and Hadaegh studied
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Euripides a tragedian of classical Athens‚ once said‚ “Friends show their love in times of trouble‚ not in happiness.” Georg and Ulrich were enemies‚ but decided to put their disputes behind and become friends. Monsieur and Morrisot were always friends but faced a tragic misfortune. Both stories have similar endings and meanings. The Interlopers and Two Friends have similar messages about life and death‚ but their characters differ in respects. In The Interlopers‚ Georg and Ulrich were enemies because
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human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. From its obscure origins in the theatres of Athens 2‚500 years ago‚ from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus‚ Sophocles and Euripides‚ through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare‚ Lope de Vega‚ Racine‚ and Schiller‚ to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg‚ Beckett’s modernist meditations on death‚ loss and suffering‚ and Müller’s postmodernist reworking
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male. The technique of using the voice of the population during speeches or just conflicts is very interesting. This kind of technique shows you what the other people think and it also makes the conflict more clear and understanding. Also the way Euripides uses the dramatic irony gives the whole play the final
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Ellen Myers Lit Journal 1/26/09 Journal Topic: The Role of Women in Medea “We women are the most unfortunate creatures‚” Medea states in her lecture to the women of Corinth. During the time of Euripides‚ women were not of high stature or power in their societies. They were traditionally confined to the roles of housekeeper‚ mother‚ mistress‚ wife‚ etc. Medea is ahead of her time; she is not defenseless and weak‚ in fact she proves herself to be quite powerful and revolutionary. She
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that also takes imagination! Tremendous stores of imagination went into the making of folk literature. Consider the timeless masterpieces such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey‚ Virgil’s Aeneid; the plays of the Great dramatists Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ Euripides and Aristophanes--as well as the great folk tales of the Grimm Brothers and the retelling of the Faust legend by Goethe. The great Bruno Bettelheim applied the psycho-analytic model of human personality to folk tales. Bettelheim theorized that
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Reflective Statement #3 In “Medea” by Euripides‚ Medea end up committing filicide. At the end of the play she kills both of her children. She claims that she does it to prevent their humiliation and her being embarrassed by her peers. I’ve learned that in most cases the mother is the one who commits filicide. That makes sense to me that it is more likely for Medea to kill the kids than Jason. I learned that in most cases of filicide the child is under six years old. In the play Medea specifically
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Hippolytus Page 98 passage 106 to 113 Choose any passage from Euripides’ Hippolytus (except for Aphrodite’s prologue speech) that marks a significant moment in the story and write a critical analysis of that passage. Go attendants‚ enter the house and take care of the meal after hunting a full table is a pleasurable thing . And we must curry the horses‚ so that‚ after I have seated myself with food I may yoke them to the chariot and give them their proper exercise. But to that Cyprus of your
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depravity but in some great error on his part.” The unity of setting; fate (or determinism); a noble character‚ with the inevitability of human flaw - these factors are archetypal of the classical tragedies‚ first made popular by notable Sophocles‚ Euripides‚ and Aeschylus. Arthur Miller adopts this structure in his play‚ The Crucible: a tragedy‚ in which John Proctor is the epitome of an Aristotelian tragic hero. The Crucible is presented in a superstitious village‚ located in Salem‚ Massachusetts
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Spiritual Sexuality and Women in Absence in Ancient Greek and Indic World Dr. Bimalkumar Subedi Introduction There are many confusions regarding the term ’ Spiritual Sexuality ’. In general‚ the term is understood as an especial form of physical sexuality itself where there thought to be some
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