and Antigone fit Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero? Aristotle defined a tragic hero as: - "The intermediate sort of person‚ one whop is not pre-eminently virtuous and just‚ one who incurs misfortune not as a result of vice and depravity‚ but by some error of judgement while enjoying great reputation and prosperity" and Creon and Antigone are the characters that could fit this definition best. Aristotle first of all suggests that a tragic hero must be someone of high stature and status
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Service recovery refers to the actions taken by an organization in response to a service failure. Below‚ five stories are listed about service recovery experiences. These are their stories: “Cue Law in Order Music” 1. Adam Sickmann‚ Anniversary Dinner – Wellivers Restaurant My brother-in-law‚ Adam‚ when he was younger‚ took his high school girl friend at the time to an anniversary dinner. The restaurant‚ Wellivers‚ was well-known and considered to be a fine dining option in the area. This place
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million of the american population who had been through near death experience . These phenomena are usually reported after an individual has been pronounced clinically dead or was in coma or very close to death for a little moment (usually it vary in time between a few seconds and a few minutes) no more than that otherwise ur definitely dead . First im gonna talk about the common steps and proceeding of a near death experience and how ppl live after undergoing that Then ill talk about how science
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happens after death. The questions and beliefs surrounding ‘after death’ have profound implications for the values‚ faith and behaviour of most people. This idea of ‘more to existence’ is manifest in recounts of near death experiences. I have chosen to examine Near Death Experiences (NDEs) as experienced by children for a simple reason : unlike adults‚ young children cannot consistently‚ over time‚ maintain the threads of a lie‚ and maintain affected behaviours. To my thinking‚ there is therefore an
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Explain what is meant by the term ‘a religious experience’. (45 marks) In 1969 Alister Hardy set up the Religious Experience Research Unit (RERU) with the aim of examining the extent and nature of the religious experiences of people in the UK. The experiences recorded were quite different from other types of experiences that people had. According to Alister Hardy the religious experience ‘… usually induces in the person concerned a conviction that the everyday world is not the whole of reality;
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Tragedy involves the downfall of a hero as a result of his tragic flaw. How true is this? It is not simply the existence of a tragic flaw that is the sole causation of the demise of the hero and other significant characters but rather the interplay between the negative externalities and the hero’s actions as a result of his tragic flaws which does so. In Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy Othello‚ Othello’s hamartia arises from a magnified sense of jealousy‚ hubris and misplaced trust brought
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Pace University English 120 October 29‚ 2009 Tragic Hero/Narcissist The tragic heroes and narcissists in the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor are the Grandmother and the Misfit. However‚ the focus is on the Grandmother and how she is in the grandiosity phase of being a tragic hero. There are personality characteristics associated with this phase‚ some of which the Grandmother has. She feels entitlement to get and do what she wants. In the story she takes her
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is also quite divergent and through use of dramatic devices‚ diction‚ contrast‚ and imagery Sophocles accentuates the similarities in character yet a clash in values Antigone and Creon‚ thus potentially creating two tragic heroes. In order to assess whether or not both are tragic characters‚ initially it’s imperative to analyze their conflictive values. Creons character attaches importance to the state and his own law rather than anything else‚ whereas Antigones appears to put family first and
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God by experience?” - Donovan 2 In ‘Can we know God by experience?’ Peter Donovan questions whether it is possible to have direct‚ intuitive knowledge of God. Intuition is an experiential belief characterized by its immediacy. It is direct perception or insight without any need for evidence or argument. Intuition or intuitive knowledge is the main theme of Donovan. He suggested that knowledge can be attained through intuition. Especially the claim that people who have religious experiences can gain
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has many other generic features which Miller has incorporated into his modern version. The character of Alfieri is used in the traditional chorus role‚ and Eddie is often likened to a tragic hero‚ the main character who contributes to their own downfall through a flawed personality‚ typically described as their "tragic flaw". The traditional Greek tragedies would have been performed in amphitheatres‚ in which the audience would look down on the actors. Not only is this similar to the way Alfieri looks
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