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    against destiny all her life. However she is finally destroyed by fate when nature puts an end to the lives of her two sons. At this point the characters fall into disgrace in a sudden change in fortune called peripetia. As a result‚ a moment of catharsis is created. That is to say that the play arouses pity and fear. For instance‚ in RTTS Maurya’s lamenting speech in the first monologue causes the audience and readers to experience emotions. Another significant characteristic of the GT is the

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    complex‚ opaque‚ and difficult to follow. ‘The puzzle film is made up of non-classical characters who perform non-classical actions and events. Puzzle film constitutes a post-classical mode of filmic representation and experience not delimited by mimesis.’ (Buckland 2009:5) • This has led to a scholarly debate as to how much the new puzzle style really deviates from classical narrative film norms and so constitutes a radically new historical phase of cinema. 3. Bordwell: forking-path plots • Puzzle

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    Adaptations are widespread and universal. Adaptation problems - content‚ structure‚ and intertextual politics. Hutcheon wishes to consider adaptations as lateral‚ not vertical. One does not experience adaptations successively starting from the original work‚ rather the works are a large collection to be navigated. One might see an adaptation before the original. Hutcheon also wishes to view adaptations as adaptations‚ not as independent works. Three ways of story engagement: telling‚ showing

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    Oghenetejiri Arigbe EN 250C: Literature Matters May 5th‚ 2017 Taking a shot at critiquing critique. The article Ana Castillo’s So Far from God: Intimations of the Absurd by B.J. Manríquez appeared in the magazine College Literature published by West Chester University which analyzes and reviews the novel So Far from God by Ana Castillo. In the article‚ Manríquez argues that Castillo’s different methods of writing points to the absurdness in the novel. Castillo uses language‚ the characters

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    (Yalom‚ Leszcz 2005) describes this factor as catharsis which was certainly evident in this group. The facilitator worked through the CBT five factor model with the member asking her to describe her thoughts feeling physical sensations and behaviour. There was also a sense of the here and now as the facilitator

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    involves the tragic hero understanding what has happened and he submits to his fate. If the play has happened as it should‚ then the audience should experience emotions of pity and fears. The purpose of tragedy was to bring about a cleansing or catharsis of these feeling.

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    inadequate for one person to scream across a theatre‚ that has a capacity of 25‚000. I always used to get out of a cinema after watching a movie sometimes inspired or sometimes despondent I felt wiser and even like a lunatic sometime. Ishaan spoke about catharsis the effect‚ which movies have on us‚ the mark it leaves and how we feel about it. Drama is a way of teaching and educating people‚ whether its tragedy or comedy it is meant to educate us teach us about life so that we learn without experiencing

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    influences‚ the symbolic reference the human psyche makes and associates itself with popular culture‚ the trends and fads that encapsulates and drives consumerism becomes the reason why popular culture is- popular. Essentially‚ it provides the ideal catharsis‚ for human emotions to be well exploited. As such‚ popular culture has progressively been shaped by human desires; a development of niche tampered and propelled further by the mass media. This is a far cry from “mass culture.” More importantly‚

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    Throughout Chapter 14 of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale ‚ Atwood focuses on fertility and rebellion as a central theme. For example when Offred says on page 80 “ I would like to steal something from this room.I would like to take some small thing…” ‚ in otherwords Offred strolls down the stairs to the living room‚ where she stoops in her doled out area for the Ceremony and thinks about stealing something which proves that Offred is planning an act of rebellion against the household.In spite of

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    man of the low-man. Many critics charge that Death of a Salesman falls short of tragedy and is therefore disqualified as a "great" play. Tragedy is developed as a form of drama that incorporates incidents arousing pity and fear‚ to accomplish the catharsis of such emotions. The ancient philosopher‚ Aristotle‚ wrote the first‚ and in many ways the most significant‚ thesis on tragedy in his Poetics. He argued that the protagonist of a tragedy must be a man of noble birth‚ who due to some predestined

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