Modern tragedies have transformed and progressed from Ancient tragedies‚ not every tragic hero have to be a noble person. The short story “Mermaids”‚ written by Richard Van Camp is a modern tragedy‚ because Torchy is a regular person and the story contains tragic elements. Torchy’s hamartia‚ greed‚ prevents him from knowing the consequences of his actions; Torchy’s peripeteia‚ forget to wash his hand is resulted from his hamartia; Torchy’s anagnorisis in the story is demonstrated when he attempts
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“HAVE FUN” by Shel Silverstein is a four lined poem explaining the safety of swimming in Pemrose Park. The poem further explains that the safety of the waters are due to the 100% guarantee of there being no sharks. The decreasing count of words from Lines 1-3 portrays a countdown to the increased word count in Line 4. Line 1 “It’s safe to swim” (Silverstein 1) contains four words; Line 2 “In Pemrose Park” (Silverstein 2) contains three; Line 3 “I guarantee” (Silverstien 3) has two; and lastly‚ Line
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Brilliance of Van Gough’s Work The Starry Night Vincent Van Gough is one of the most well known artists of all time‚ and one of his most popular paintings‚ The Starry Night‚ is an expression of his mystical vision. Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born in The Netherlands in 1853‚ he was a mentally plagued man but in his times of clarity produced works of art that to this day continue to astound people (Frank P.375). The Starry Night is oil on canvas landscape painting that Van Gough painted while in
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named Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhove‚ Memling combines both of his skills to create a painting that is similar to Campin’s Merode Altarpiece‚ done between 1425 and 1428. The many comparisons of these paintings show that the Northern Flemish paintings during the Early Renaissance held a persistent style‚ but Memling’s painting shows progressed style differences in his use of atmospheric perspective‚ the frames of the painting‚ and unifying the two images. Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhove is a 15th-century
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Contrasting the Two Stories of Rip Van Winkle. The story of Rip Van Winkle was written in 1819 by Washington Irving. It was the first American short story. Robert Coover wrote Rip Awake 153 years later. It is his version of the continuing story of the man named Rip Van Winkle. Although both these stories have obvious similarities there are also many differences. These differences include the setting of the story‚ the character of Rip himself‚ and the mood of the story. Rip Van Winkle was written as a short
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Vincent Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work highly impacted 20th century art. His works had a distinct stylistic theme that had a sort of melting effect within them. Many of them also included his iconic swirls that provided as a base for backgrounds. Out of his 900 paintings‚ only a few incorporated solid shapes and lines. Looking at his works‚ I tried to imagine dancing them. I found that the swirls could serve as a trajectory for different body parts or pathways‚ and the almost
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2016 DO YOU EVEN VAN GOGH‚ BRO? Pipkin 1 On July 27th 1890 Vincent Van Gogh died a fairly young man‚ completely crazy and lost in his own mind. I want to dive deeper into the life of this brilliant‚ yet completely crazy man‚ who has produced more than 2‚100 artworks‚ made up of some 1‚300 watercolors and 860 oil paintings(Vincent Van Gogh Biography‚
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the the polluted surroudings of the eiffel tower half fearing and waiting for the day my new masters child to walk into the balcony and “accidentally” smashing me. No im not crying. The acidic air is making my eyes just water Ek staan in Die middel van geboue‚strate‚ verkeer‚ die koue en geluide. Ek is ook gekraak‚ oud en koud. Ek wens ek kon sê dat ek met roosbome rondom my omring is‚ soos ek was
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of times‚ dark‚ cool colors are made to show darker emotions‚ and light‚ warm colors are added where happy emotions radiate out in a painting. Contrast in colors was also used to help distinguish different feelings between parts of each painting. Van Gogh was one of the most popular painters to use color to show his feelings; he went for contrast and bolder strokes that were charged with emotional energy. In his famous piece‚ Starry Night‚ he used the blues to show the cold‚ winter winds of France
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