Rules For Tragedy Laid Down In Poetics As They Apply To Blood Relations By Sharon Pollock Aristotle could be considered the first popular literary critic. Unlike Plato‚ who all but condemned written verse‚ Aristotle breaks it down and analyses it so as to separate the good from the bad. He studies in great detail what components make a decent epic or tragedy. The main sections he comes up with are form‚ means and manner. For most drama and verse‚ Aristotle ’s rules are a fairly good measure of
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The story of Othello is a traditional tragedy with a main character‚ whose tragic flaw lead’s us to his death. In Othello‚ it teaches us life lessons to avoid these tragedies. As the play develops‚ the situations worsen‚ and we are shown a story of a powerful man who falls from grace. Othello’s tragic flaws lie with his irritable character traits. Throughout the play‚ we get a sense of these traits in full mode. His most irritable trait is his pride. By being overly prideful‚ Othello often
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burning and it was getting harder and harder to breathe. I started to repeat over and over in my head as if in a chant‚ you can’t stay here‚ you can’t stay here." Good morning teachers‚ judges‚ and fellow students. Today I would like to speak about Triumph through Tragedy. What you just heard was an actual account of a tragedy that unfolded in a tiny community of North Harbour‚ St. Mary’s Bay‚ many years ago. In the early morning hours of June 19th‚ 1980‚ the Lineman’s of North Harbour experienced
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When tragedy strikes‚ it is not uncommon for a well revered figure to respond to such an event as common people look up to them for guidance. Robert F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton are no exceptions‚ while the initial is addressing the sudden assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the latter concerning towards The 1995 Oklahoma Bombing‚ both are responding towards tragic loss and the aftermath that should follow. In their speeches‚ “A Eulogy For Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.” and “Oklahoma Bombing
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playwrights that have ever lived. He has written dozens and dozens of brilliant plays‚ most of those plays have been made into movies. One such play that has been made into a movie is “Othello.” The play “Othello” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. It is about a black general in the Italian army‚ Othello‚ and what happened between him and his wife‚ Desdemona. The main villain in this play is Iago; who is a soldier under Othello’s command. Iago tells Othello numerous lies about Desdemona and
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A Tragic World The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare shares the archetypal love story between two lovers of opposing households. Aside from the title‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ meets the criteria of a tragedy by emphasizing the protagonists’ tragic flaw in the process of their fall. Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet falls best under phase two tragedy due to the tragedy of innocence and confusion in an adult situation. Phase six tragedy does not apply to Romeo and Juliet because
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SHORT STORY “EDUCATING RITA” A Literature Class and a “Social” Comedy It is a British movie based on a play written by Willy Russell that narrates the relationship of the two main characters: Susan (who asks to be called as Rita at the beginning of the story) and Dr. Frank Bryant. Susan is a young lady who belongs to the working-class‚ she works as a hairdresser and is about to get marry with her boyfriend‚ even though‚ after knowing Dr. Frank Bryan‚ she experiences a sense of freedom that leads
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Plautus‚ Terence and the Origin of Roman Comedy In the early centuries of its existence‚ Rome had no real literature since the Romans were busy in consolidating and expanding their empire. It was in about the year 3rd century B.C that they came into contact with the Greeks of Southern Italy and Sicily and began to learn about Greek art and literature and blend it into their own cultural identity. The exact dates are those of the Punic Wars with Carthage (264-241 B.C).This contact with
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Garrett Hardin’s famous‚ “The Tragedy of the Commons‚” has been effective till date. His modest but commanding explanation of herdsmen sharing a common pasture has created a debate in a wide range of topics as to how resources are being over used. The essence of Hardin’s story of tragedy is that herdsmen sharing a common pasture are led to think that by adding up more sheep due to unlimited grass would optimize them individually but‚ they ultimately ended up overstocking their herds and destroy their
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based on Article “Tragedy and the Common Man” In Arthur Miller’s essay “Tragedy and the Common Man‚” Miller mentions tragedy as man’s struggle to gain his “rightful” position in his society‚ and whoever that character may be—king or common man—that character is eventually brought down by his or her tragic flaws and that’s what makes that character a tragic hero. In the past‚ there have been many tragic heroes which can relate to Arthur Miller’s essay “Tragedy and the Common
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