Milburn Jr. Milburn 1 "THE GLASS MENAGERIE": Ingredients of a Tragic Drama and a Modern Tragic Heroine Tennessee Williams wrote and created the play‚ "The Glass Menagerie‚" with the concept of tragedy in mind. Random House ’s denotative meaning of the word tragedy is as follows: a dramatic composition‚ often in verse‚ dealing with a serious or somber theme‚ typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force
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Name of Allah‚ Most Gracious‚ Most Merciful. OEDIPUS REX: A TRAGEDY OF FATE OR CHARACTER The dilemma of human sufferings is a very perplexing one. The question that always agitates our minds is why man suffers. Is he responsible for his sufferings‚ calamities‚ and misfortunes for his innate defects: Tragic Flaw; or these are the result of enmity of heavenly forces. We also find this enigma in almost all great tragedies of Shakespeare. In King Lear‚ he says: As flies to wanton
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Sophocles in Oedipus Rex introduces the horrors of veracity through the journey the tragic hero Oedipus takes on. This tragedy encompasses all the concepts of Aristotle’s Poetics in regards to a complex plot. According to Aristotle‚ a tragedy is an event that has to arouse pity and fear to the readers; Oedipus contains all the features of this demand. In terms of Oedipus’ tragedy‚ he’s seen as the cursed one who consequently has to suffer the tragic repercussions of fate. In Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex
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Heroes and Their Hamartia Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a classic example of a literary tragedy. There are multiple tragic heroes‚ whose consequences of their actions contribute to a series of catastrophic events. Arthur Miller‚ in his essay “Tragedy in the Common Man”‚ states that only those who accept their fate without a fight are flawless and that most of us are in this category. Conversely‚ Aristotle believed “the hero often has many positive qualities‚ but also possesses a tragic
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to be married to Creon’s son‚ Haimon. Antigone‚ Haimon‚ and Creon’s wife‚ Eurydice‚ all commit suicide in the end. Antigone exemplifies Aristotle’s classical definition of a tragedy by consisting of quantitative and organic parts‚ making the story seem probable‚ and having a tragic hero. In Aristotle’s definition of a tragedy‚ he states that there must be two parts: quantitative and organic. When reading Antigone‚ the quantitative parts‚ prologos‚ episodes‚ choric‚ odes‚ and exodos‚ are clearly labeled
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525-426 bc. Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or preformed‚ the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: Our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. He also expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict among them‚ whereas previously characters had interacted only with the
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stories and textbooks cannot. He makes the sadness of an infamous tragedy vivid and heartfelt to everyone who reads it‚ whether they have a connection to the tragedy or not. “Ballad of Birmingham” is based on the events of a day that has been recounted in books and on television for decades. By approaching these events from a sentimental point of view rather than an objective one‚ Randall provides unique insight into the tragedy. Only four families knew what it was like to lose a child
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construction of madness throughout the play. Defining abnormality is a complicated matter. When asked to describe abnormal behavior‚ it is usually defined as an infrequent event‚ is odd or strange‚ the characteristics of abnormality include danger and tragedy. Once a behavior influences the way of living successfully functioning in an important aspect of life‚ which will include the psychological‚ interpersonal and achievement
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“The Tragic Demise of a Tragic Hero” Through the eyes of Aristotle‚ a tragedy depicts the downfall of a noble hero or heroine‚ whether it may be through death or a change in fortune‚ after they understand human fate and destiny. Many authors have used Aristotle’s wise words to create tragic novels which involve tragic heroes. A tragic hero has a powerful wish to achieve a goal but which inevitably encounters limits. In the case of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ the limits that Willy Loman
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0159-XXXX 1371 words In Greek theatre the success of a tragedy was determined a set of distinct principles unique to the Greek outlined by Aristotle. Since Geek drama is based on famous mythical lore‚ the element of surprise in a play is minimal‚ ignorable‚ unlike contemporary drama with their heart-wrenching plot twists. As a result‚ the success of the play was largely determined by the plot development of the tragedy. While Aristotle stated that a successful work must have a wholesome
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