capable of hearing and seeing‚ yet they are deaf and blind to the truth of their circumstances. Their lack of sense eventually leads to their own demise. Throughout the play‚ Shakespeare uses the senses‚ especially hearing and sight‚ to reveal the tragic flaws of both of these characters. Gertrude is oblivious to many facts and ideas that are presented to her whether it is her avoidance of the truth behind her new marriage or the reality of Hamlet’s madness. In multiple instances‚ there are facts
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protagonist‚ the tragic structure of the play is in disarray from the very onset. According to Aristotle‚ all tragedies must follow a certain set of characteristics‚ and the most important of these is the presence of a tragic hero. This tragic hero must possess a tragic flaw‚ or hamartia‚ which is a good quality taken to such an extreme that it now exhibits immoral behaviour from the hero. He must also draw sympathy of his plight from the audience. Macbeth‚ although the protagonist‚ is not a tragic hero because
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has been an argument regarding the true tragic hero of the play. It is a commonly held certainty that Antigone must be the tragic character merely because she and the drama share the same name. This is‚ of course‚ a very reasonable supposition. Surely Sophocles must have intended her to be viewed as the protagonist; otherwise‚ he would not have given her the name as the play’s title. However‚ analytically speaking‚ Creon seems to fit the category of a tragic hero more accurately. There is no doubt
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scientific understanding or laws of nature. The occurrence of the supernatural made each story more captivating and enjoyable. The supernatural theme was the most influential and prominent theme that we worked with during this course. While reading The Romance of Certain Old Clothes‚ I couldn’t understand why it was included in the American Gothic Literature unit that I would be studying for the semester. But as I read the story a second time to understand it fully‚ I realized the story had major themes
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between Texts and Genres When studying genres in literature‚ one of the main questions which one has to ask one’s self is if the category of genre determines how a story is narrated or if there are more complex connections between a text and genres. There are many theories about this relationship and a good number of them seem to suggest that there is a direct influence of genre upon narrative. In particular‚ the Structuralist approaches to these issue “acknowledge the power of genre to shape textual
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工學 學士 學位論文 Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals 2010년 12월 16일 서울대학교 공과대학 電氣工學部 李 承 澤 Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals 指導敎授 성 굉 모 이 논문을 공학 학사학위 논문으로 제출함 2010년 12월 16일 서울대학교 공과대학 電氣工學部 이 승 택 이승택의 학사 학위 논문을 인준함 2010년 12월 16일 지도교수 성 굉 모 (인) ABSTRACT Musical genres are categorized by human. It depends on human hearing. There are common characteristics shared by categories. These characteristics are related to instrumentation‚ rhythmic structure‚ and harmonic
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white film offers. In addition‚ Evelyn is not the classic femme fatale. Though Jake mistakes her for her husband’s killer at first‚ Mrs. Mulwray eventually emerges as the story’s most tragic victim. Yes‚ Chinatown for the most part conforms to the structure of film noir‚ but this film departs from the general genre‚ creating an entirely different element in which Roman Polanksi examines not only big-money corruption and its malignant obsession with money‚ but also larger‚ more human themes such as
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Policing Fantasy: Problems of Genre in Fantasy Literature By Svein Angelskår A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature Area Studies and European Languages The University of Oslo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements For the MA Degree Autumn Term 2005 2 Table of Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS:......................................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION ................................................
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the western genre within a set of selected frameworks‚ to do so I will be comparing and contrasting two films that come under the western genre category and were released nearly seventy years apart‚ the 1939 classic Stagecoach‚ from director John Ford and the 2005 hybrid western Serenity‚ from director Joss Whedon. The frameworks that will be used to compare and contrast both films within consist of technology‚ gender and audience. The Western Genre ‘The western is the only genre whose origins
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criticism‚ bildungsroman or coming-of-age story is a literary genre which focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age)‚[2] and in which character change is thus extremely important.[3] The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Karl Morgenstern in his university lectures‚ and later famously reprised by Wilhelm Dilthey‚ who legitimized it in 1870 and popularized it in 1905.[1][4] The genre is further characterized by a number of formal‚ topical
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