Aristotle’s Poetic. Simply we can say that Riders to the Sea is a modern tragedy in classical settings and with classical overtones. Unlike Greek tragedies‚ Riders to the Sea deals with the sufferings of a common human being named Maurya who is the head of an Irish peasant-cum fisherman family. While Greek tragedies dealt with the sufferings of high-born people‚ modern tragedies deal with the sufferings of common people. And while Greek tragedies tell the stories of kings and princes or people of kingly status
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critically with reference to ethical frameworks. The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study. I. INTRODUCTION The video ’A totally avoidable tragedy’ (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people in the Mala Sara‚ Australia. They took a boat to return home after a meeting. However‚ the boat sank because of big waves and the lack of help and boat equipment. The tragedy unveiled management issues in the public sector including ethics and accountability
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Sami Robbins Tragedy essay March 5‚ 2012 Mrs. Knight In a tragedy‚ the main character is usually dignified and courageous. The characters downfall may be caused by a character flaw‚ or it may result from forces beyond his or hers control. The tragic hero or heroine usually wins some knowledge and wisdom‚ even though he or she suffers defeat and often death. “Beyond his silence‚ there is a past. Beyond her dreams‚ there is a feeling. Beyond hope there is a memory. Beyond their journey‚ there is
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It was one of those lean years of our lives. Our rice field was destroyed by locusts that came from the neighboring towns. When the locusts were gone‚ we planted string beans but a fire burned the whole plantation. My brothers went away because they got tired working for nothing. Mother and my sisters went from house to house‚ asking for something to do‚ but every family was plagued with some kind of disaster. The children walked in the streets looking for the fruit that fell to the ground from the
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In what ways do you think that ‘Of Mice and Men’ can be read as a tragedy? One of the reasons Of Mice and Men can be read as a tragedy is because of the high number of deaths (the mouse near the start‚ Candy’s dog‚ Lennie’s pup‚ Candy’s dog‚ Curley’s wife and Lennie himself in the end). The main ones are the death of Curley’s wife and Lennie. Before Curley’s wife dies by the hands of Lennie‚ she tells Lennie that she could have been on the stage-‘he says he was gonna put me in the movies……but my
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Tragedy comes in many forms‚ for example earthquakes‚ tornadoes and hurricanes are all types of tragedies. On the other hand‚ when talking about tragedy in literature‚ it has a whole different meaning. Tragedy in literature is on a smaller scale than things like earthquakes‚ tornadoes and hurricanes. In literature tragedy is usually about one person and the horrible things that happen to them during their life in a story or play. Oedipus is the main character in the play Oedipus the King. Oedipus
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Katelyn Stoll Professor Hall English 102 11 November 2009 “Tragedy and the Common Man” in Hamlet Arthur Miller notes that‚ “The tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life‚ if need be‚ to secure one thing—his sense of personal dignity” (1). This characteristic seen in most tragedies is definitely evident in the character of Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The moment that Hamlet learns from the ghost that Claudius has
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The Catcher and the Rye: Tragedy or Comedy? In the novel The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ I viewed the novel as a tragedy. This novel is based on a sixteen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield who has not decided what he wants to pursue in life. From the beginning of the novel you get an assumption of what state of mind Holden is in. He began saying in the text “ IF YOU REALLY want to hear about is‚ the first thing you’ll proberly want to know is where I was born‚ and what my lousy
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is responsible for the tragedy that occurs. This tragedy is where Iago murders Emilia and Roderigo and Othello murders Desdemona and commits suicide. The end of the play suggests that it is Othello who is responsible for the tragedy that unfolds as it was him that ended up murdering Desdemona and committing suicide. However there are times that suggest to the audience that Iago can be held responsible as he uses his skill in manipulating situations that caused the tragedy to occur in Othello. Along
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In Shakespeare’s tragedies and his plays in general‚ we can come across several types of female characters. Their influence with other characters and their purpose or role‚ often underestimated like women themselves‚ will be this essay’s main subject. Women in Shakespearean plays have always had important roles‚ sometimes even the leading role. Whether they create the main conflicts and base of the plays‚ or bring up interesting moral and cultural questions‚ they have always been put in challenging
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