“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Pain and suffering are constant throughout life; misfortunes that we just have to learn to deal with. Situations when we have to keep our heads held high‚ stay confident and never give up. It is in these tough times that we must look at the bright side‚ focus on what we can gain out of the challenging position in which we find ourselves in. We have to stop in a world that never pauses. We have to freeze in an ever flowing waterfall
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suspense is the fact that if he’ll be caught or not for murder. One of the quotes in "The Tell-Tale Heart" the author wrote "they heard! – they suspected! – they knew! – they were making a mockery of my horror!" (Poe‚ p. 1). The quotation meant that the madman is haunted making him think everything is bad when everything is actually ok‚ creating suspense. When something good happens something bad happens as well. In The Tell Tale Heart‚ we learned you can’t get away with murder because you’ll feel guilty
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As clearly stated‚ Edgar Allen Poe was the author of the poem The Raven. In his short life‚ this poem along with many other poems and pieces he published connected to the dark and macabre that reflected his own life. With the images of madman‚ murder and melancholy‚ a lot of parallels can be drawn between “The Raven” and Edgar’s life. Poe’s life was filled with tragedy. The people closest to him that he loved died early in his life—his mother‚ father and his wife‚ Virginia
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Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist Dario Fo’s original play‚ Accidental Death of an Anarchist has been adapted and transformed an innumerable number of times‚ to greater or lesser success. Most often‚ adaptations that involve a modernisation or complete transformation of the play can be seen as less successful as they tend to alter the original so much that the original message and intention of the play is lost. However‚ often when adapting the play to a modern context‚ a complete transformation
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“The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ by Edgar Allan Poe‚ is a short story about the murder of an old man told by the unnamed narrator who committed the murder. The narrator gives a very detailed account of the event which gives one a good look at what is going on inside the narrator’s head. Throughout the story the story it becomes increasingly evident that the narrator of the story is not in his right mind and‚ therefore‚ is an unreliable source. It is evident that the narrator lacks the ability to reason logically
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For Nietzsche‚ resentiment is a feeling of anger which comes from the distinction between the good and the bad people. The “good” and “bad” were only used to separate two groups of people and associated to no moral meaning. The “good” meant strong‚ active and happy. At the same time‚ the “bad” meant weak‚ passive and unhappy. The good people were those with higher social status. The bad people were with lower social status. Such a distinction had political value in differentiating the nobles from
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Foucault’s works are based on a vision of history derived from Nietzsche. He expressed his indebtedness to Nietzsche for having outlined a conception of history called genealogy. The method of genealogy involves a painstaking rediscovery of struggles‚ an attack on the tyranny of what he calls ¡¦totalizing discourses¡¦ and a rediscovery of fragmented‚ subjugated‚ local and specific knowledge. It is directed against great truths and grand theories.¡]p.80¡^ (¡° vs. Lyotard’s grand narrative/small
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anticipation‚ dynamic character transformation and making changes to the structure of the plot builds to the depth of the story. Edgar Allen Poe starts the story by building anticipation‚ when the character claims that others call him a madman the audience already start to wonder the reason behind this statement. Also when the young man stands in his home with the police officers and he starts to hear and feel the beating of the mans heart. Instead of just rushing to the point of when
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Tragic perspective from culture acts and owns its Dionysian‚ that tells a story in a heroic way. It produces beautiful art that tells the truth. For example in the Antigone‚ she represents the Apollonian in which her choice to fight against Creon as a representation of Dionysian. Even though Antigone disobeys the law and understands her actions she will die for doing it; this proved such an important thread of the hero ends with such tragedy. She makes a heroic choice of what she believes in‚ and
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