Seneca’s Phaedra and Thyestes are about the immorality that comes from not being rational. In Phaedra a woman lusts for her stepson‚ and in Thyestes a king seeks revenge on his brother. Lastly‚ in Statius’s Thebaid a hero leads six other heroes to his brother’s kingdom to usurp the throne. These five stories will be examined to find what each genre does differently and what similarities the stories have to each other. Only stories of different genres will be
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Hippolytus went to Athens‚ and Aphrodite inspired Phaedra‚ Hippolytus’ stepmother‚ to fall in love with him knowing that it would anger Theseus. Along with several followers‚ Hippolytus shows reverence towards Artemis while passing her statue‚ who is a chaste Goddess. A servant warns Hippolytus against his disdain for Aphrodite‚ but to the servant’s dismay‚ he refuses to listen. After the opening scene‚ a chorus of women enter‚ and describe the queen‚ Phaedra‚ as being very ill. She refuses to eat‚ drink
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bared his first son Hippolytus. The amazon army did not hesitate to launch and an attack and killed Antigone in the battlefield. After the death of his first wife Theseus remarried with Phaedra‚ the sister of Ariadne. Phaedra‚ a woman that was going to have a tragic fate‚ gave Theseus two sons Demophone and Acamas. Phaedra fell in love with her stepson. When Hippolytus rejected her offer she committed suicide from her despair. However she left a note behind saying that Hippolytus had raped and dishonored
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In Tartuffe‚ Moliere’s use’s plot to defend and oppose characters that symbolize and ridicule habitual behavior’s that was imposed during the neo-classical time period. His work‚ known as a comedy of manners‚ consists of flat characters‚ with few and similar traits and that always restore some kind of peace in the end. He down plays society as a whole by creating a microseism‚ where everyone in the family has to be obedient‚ respectful‚ and mindful of the head of the home‚ which is played by the
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pebbles. The Triumph of Dionysus and Phaedra and Hippolytus are among the most impressive mosaics in the house. The former depicts the triumphal return of the god from a military expedition to India from where he brought Indian slaves and panthers we see on the mosaic. The latter represents the tragic story of Phaedra and Hippolytus. The scene shows the moment after Hippolytus have received and read the love letter from his stepmother Phaedra. The fate of Phaedra and Hippolytus has been recounted by
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Richard Howard (Berkeley : University of California Press 1992) Benichou‚ Paul‚ Man and Ethics: Studies in French Classicism / translation by Elizabeth Hughes (New York: Anchor Books 1971) Cairncross‚ John‚ Penguin Classics Introduction to Iphigenia: Phaedra: Athaliah by Jean Racine (London: Penguin Books 2004) Coe‚ Richard N.‚ Ionesco: a study of his plays / by Richard N. Coe (London : Methuen ‚ 1971) Delgado‚ Maria‚ ‘A Personal Alphabet’‚ PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art‚ 33‚ no Ionesco‚ Eugène
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Death of a Salesman Essay Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a modern tragedy. Willy Loman is a tragic figure. The play and the character are classified as such because they follow the examples of Greek tragedies‚ Roman tragedies and Shakespearean tragedy which have typified the classic tragic genre. Athenian tragedy – the oldest documented form of tragedy – is scholastically defined by Aristotle‚ Greek philosopher and polymath (384 – 322 BC)‚ as “an enactment of a deed that is important
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4 October 2013 The Rise and Fall of The Great Athenian Hero: Theseus Theseus is often seen as the greatest hero in Athens‚ but is his story that much different than any other hero? The Greek myth “Theseus” is a perfect example of Joseph Campbell’s idea of the Hero’s Journey‚ also known as Monomyth. Monomyth is the idea that all stories follow a basic pattern‚ written in twelve stages. The three stages that best demonstrate this idea in Theseus are: Crossing the Threshold; Tests‚ Allies‚
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“Comic resolution is sometimes seen symbolically as an act of rebirth‚ renewal or reaffirmation‚” To what extent is this true of the final act of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem? Comic resolution is seen symbolically as an act of rebirth‚ renewal and affirmation in the final act of Jerusalem. Act 3 is the scene where all problems that have arisen in Act 1 and Act 2 are solved. In the final act of Jerusalem the professor is saddened by Mary’s death and appears to be living in the past. “I went
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1. Ideally it combines the history of translation theory with the study of literary and social trends in which translation has played a direct part. It is the story of interchange between languages and between cultures and as such has implications for the study of both language and culture. 2. Closely allied to literary history‚ translation history can describe changes in literary trends‚ account for the regeneration of a culture‚ trace changes in politics or ideology and explain the expansion and
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