Brief explanation of tragic form and how techniques contribute to tragic form - Linking sentence into narrative structure Body • PARAGRAPH #1 : Narrative structure - Topic sentence: Significance of the four parts and how they parallel those of a tragedy - Examples; Part 1; Rise of McMurphy o Disruption in ward; “the chief’s vote makes it 21 [majority!] “ (p. 143) o Elevated hero; “[hollers] and screams about discipline and order and recriminations”(p 145). o Fatal flaw: “[He will] bug the
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Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles set in the Bronze Age at the dawn of day in the royal palace of Thebes. It is story of a driven young girl named Antigone who is determined to bury her recently deceased brother‚ Polynices‚ by defying the orders of the new king of Thebes’‚ Creon. . The definition of an Ancient Greek tragedy thought up by Aristotle explains that tragedy is “an imitation of an action that is serious‚ complete possessing magnitude: In embellished language‚ each kind of
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In tragic plays it appears that women‚ more specifically mothers like Gertrude of Hamlet and Jocasta of Oedipus the King‚ are plagued by decisions that are made with good intentions‚ but end up destroying their lives and the lives of people around them. Women are also under the burden of strict societal expectations when it comes to the decisions they make. These two tragic plays illuminate a human being’s capacity for suffering. Gertrude and Jocasta both care deeply for their sons. However‚ this
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Macbeth is the last of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies‚ the others being Hamlet‚ King Lear and Othello. It is a relatively short play without a major sub-plot‚ and it is considered by many scholars to be Shakespeare’s darkest work. Lear is an utter tragedy in which the natural world is amorally indifferent toward mankind‚ but in Macbeth‚ Shakespeare adds a supernatural dimension that purposively conspires against Macbeth and his kingdom. In the tragedy of Lear‚ the distraught king summons the goddess
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Glossary of Literary terms – Drama Act-: A lengthy segment of a play‚ comprising several scenes. A major division in a play. Each act may have one or more scenes. Greek plays were performed as continuous wholes‚ with interpolated comment from the Chorus. Horace appears to have been the first to insist on a five-act structure. At some stage during the Renaissance the use of five acts become standard practice among French dramatists. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries have natural
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Chapter one Tragedy and Poetry Since its inception in ancient Greece two millennia and a half ago‚ tragedy has never faded out. It is true that there were periods when other forms of entertainment or other types of drama eclipsed tragedy‚ but it has never failed to maintain the interest of both dramatists and philosophers. It is noteworthy that tragedy has often been written in verse; the use of prose as the medium of tragedy is only a recent phenomenon. This
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Oedipus the King: A Tragic Hero Sophocles’‚ Oedipus Rex is probably the most famous tragedy ever written. Oedipus Rex is the story of a King of Thebes upon whom a hereditary curse is placed and who therefore has to suffer the tragic consequences of fate. By elevating the importance of fate‚ Sophocles suggests that characters cannot be fully responsible for their actions. While free choices‚ such as Oedipus’s decision to pursue knowledge of his identity‚ are significant‚ fate is responsible for
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share similar plots and outcomes. This is because they both contain what are considered essential qualities of tragedy. Both Hamlet and Antigone explore tragedy through the lives and interaction of many characters. Among the characters in both stories‚ the most tragic is Hamlet. Even before the starting point of the story‚ we come to find out that Hamlet has already suffered a major tragedy in his life: his father dying. In addition‚ his mother remarried quickly after her late husband’s death‚ to
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Macbeth Tragedy Essay Tragedy is present in many of Shakespeare’s plays and can be interpreted in different perspectives. In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare‚ one can debate whether the protagonist Macbeth experiences tragedy. Macbeth slowly turns too evil and ambitious throughout the play to the point that when he is killed‚ the audience feels no pity for him. This is why Macbeth would not count as a tragedy. However Macbeth is a noble figure‚ he suffers a reversal of fortune and
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Tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics a) Aristotle wrote that a tragedy must have unity of plot. What does this statement mean? By this Aristotle means that the plot must be structurally self-contained‚ with the incidents bound together by internal necessity‚ each action leading inevitably to the next with no outside intervention. According to Aristotle‚ the worst kinds of plots are “‘episodic‚’ in which the episodes or acts succeed one another without probable or necessary sequence”; the only thing
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