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    Tragedy & Comedy

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    called Dionysia which honoured the God Dionysus‚ tragedy‚ comedy & satyr play were the three genres to emerge from the theatre of ancient Greece. Tragedy is a form of drama based on 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

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    prisoners would recite their “lodging” as to be an answer‚ to any enemy questions. Also‚ Mr. Manette has already caused a chain reaction of events‚ starting with Jerry Cruncher as the messenger for Mr. Jarvis Lorry. Lucie is also trying to use catharsis to help Dr. Manette recuperate from his

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    I can still recall the first time that I saw a horror film. I was seven years old and the movie was Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger. Freddy is a frightening character in the 1984 film. He is a serial killer who has knives instead of fingernails. The nightmare that haunted me nightly was the scene when a teenage girl wanders around a dark boiler room in only her nightgown‚ a screeching is heard as knives are scratched against the pipes. The combination of reality into the movie made it

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    Within all of the three poems we have studied‚ UA Fanthorpe’s half past two‚ DH lawrence’s Piano and Stephen Spenders‚ there are aspects of childhood being described and conveyed. However each poem conveys them in a different manner‚ but there are some similarities as well. Firstly I will talk about what each poem is about and what attitude and themes they possess compared to the other two. In the poem half past two by UA fanthorpe a boy is given detention for an unspecified misdemeanour‚

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    Group therapy has its roots from WWII but is still very common today. There are many different factors of group therapy. The first is that group therapy offers new information to individuals. The group leader may offer advice but also group members share their experiences. This leads to the presence of hope by both the therapist and group members. Another factor to group therapy is universality which shows that everyone struggles with problems and that an individual is not alone (BOOK). A benefit

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    part of the tragic hero.. 6. Though it arouses solemn emotion‚ tragedy does not leave its audience in a state of depression. Aristotle argues that one function of tragedy is to arouse the "unhealthy" emotions of pity and fear and through a catharsis (which comes from watching the

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    Humor in Latino Culture

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    humor are: satire‚ ethnic self parody‚ parody of the dominant culture‚ code switching‚ language plays between Spanish and English‚ mistranslations and the fusion of the profane‚ body functions‚ sex and swear words into a self referential type of catharsis” Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture‚ Volume 1 1- Humor determines how close or far the rest are from our own selves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qc_hgpe6eA&feature=relmfu If you understand our jokes‚ you are one of us 2- Humor

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    One of the dominant motifs of the "Situation" section‚ is the concept of the "new" (see also‚ the modern) and its relationship to the situation of art. This concept and its dialectical...complications/implications is absolutely fundamental to Adorno’s philosophy in general‚ especially in relation to a motif of failed (or aborted) revolutions and their relation to what Adorno occasionally refers to as the aging of modernity. Whither Adorno’s account of the "resistance to the new”? For him‚ any and

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    Plato and the censure of Art Plato when imagined his ideal state‚ he asserts that societies have a structure where in everything has its place. To maintain order‚ every factor of life‚ from people to production to ideas must be subordinated to the good of the state. As such‚ if art needs to be censured for the betterment of the State‚ it should be. Plato presents a logical argument of the arts‚ specifically painting and poetry‚ and comes to the conclusion that art should be censored.

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    centre of the performance as it’s through them that the journey takes place. In the performance‚ therefore the text is not present and equivalent forms are used to express meaning. These forms are mainly movements and gestures‚ which are not aimed at mimesis‚ rather they are expressive by themselves and therefore

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