Greyhound Tragedy The short story “Greyhound Tragedy” written by Richard Brautigan is the telling of a woman with a single dream. The protagonist’s name is never given throughout the short story. The women’s life has always been a very luxurious life style granted her parents wealth and love for their child. However she is very bored in the small town that she was born and raised in‚ and the only thing that occupies her is reading movie magazines. Movie magazines are as a religion to her. Her biggest
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Antigone‚ a tragedy Ernest Hemingway wrote that “So far‚ about morals‚ I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” If something is moral but is breaking civil law should it be done? What if not doing this act was immorals? Would you let it happen? In the play Antigone‚ Sophocles portrays Antigone as one who focuses on moral law over civil law due to her self pride and love for her family; These actions lead to her tragic downfall
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Tragedy is a huge part not only in life but in literature. Tragedy in reality can be anything; death‚ natural disaster‚ suicide‚ and so on. Tragedy in literature is portrayed in a plays or religious ceremonies. Most of these tragedies are related to the disaster of heroes‚ legends‚ and religious myths. A tragedy in literature may have some similarities as tragedies in real life‚ but will need key aspects to be considered a tragedy. Tragedy is portrayed very differently in literature compared to
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In an essay in 1833‚ William Forster Lloyd outlined a phenomenon called the “tragedy of the commons.” The tragedy of the commons can be defined as individuals acting only for their personal benefit‚ thus depleting a necessary group resource to the point that it cannot recover (“Tragedy”). This issue reared its head in the state of North Carolina recently due to the gas shortage caused by a damaged pipeline. On September 9th‚ Colonial Pipeline Company discovered it had a leak in its southern pipeline
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THE STRUCTURE OF A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY ----------------------- 1. Exposition: Since Shakespeare’s stage had no central curtain and few stage props‚ the exposition reveals the setting (time and place) and sometimes highlights a theme; it has the important function of providing the appropriate mood and atmosphere for the play‚ also acting as a “hook” to engage the audience. Shakespeare rarely introduces his tragic figure at this stage. 2. Inciting Force: An incident that introduces the conflict
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According to the Aristotelian view of tragedy‚ a tragic hero must fall through his or her own error. This is typically called the "tragic flaw"‚ and can be applied to any characteristic that causes the downfall the hero. Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark can be seen as an Aristotelian tragedy and Hamlet as it’s tragic hero. Hamlet’s flaw‚ which in accordance with Aristotle’s principles of tragedy causes his demise‚ is his inability to act. This defect of Hamlet’s character is displayed throughout
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Leal Honors English 10 – Period 3 8 October 2010 McFarland‚ Thomas. “The Meaning of Tragedy.” Tragic Meanings in Shakespeare. New York: Random House‚ 1968. 3-16. Thesis Statement: “We look into the tragic mirror ... to extricate our being from nothingness” (7). Tragedy reflects human existence. It is very unusual for one to be thinking of his or her death. Instead‚ we look into tragedy‚ which reflects human life in the bluntest and most straightforward sense. This tragic mirror
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY By URJIT ZAVERI 14BLS119 On the night of December 2‚ 1984 forty one metric tons of methyl isocyanate also known as MIC was released from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. After one year of this incident almost 1800 people dies in this disaster and 320‚000 people had been affected by it. By 1991‚around 4000 people dies because of the gas in their body. Union carbide was a U.S company that started manufacturing pesticides in Bhopal‚ India. The valve malfunctioned on the 2nd December
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A Hopeless Solution "A Summer Tragedy" is a short story written by Arnaud Bontemps. “A Summer Tragedy" starts with Jeff Patton‚ an elderly African-American man‚ putting on his finest fancy dress clothes that he has worn barely than a handful of times. Having difficulty tying his bowtie‚ Jeff calls for his wife‚ with his thick southern accent‚ to assist him. Despite her being blind and even feebler than Jeff‚ she succeeds in tying his bowtie and returns to her bedroom to finish dressing in her little
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Macbeth‚ Julius Caesar‚ and Hamlet are just a few of William Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays. Some would argue that Romeo and Juliet is by far his best and most famous. In this tragedy two families‚ Capulet and Montague‚ are feuding. Despite this problem‚ the two young lovers still meet and continue on to get married. Their love for each other is so strong it will eventually lead to their deaths. The amazing work of Shakespeare and how he created it made such
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