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An Overview of Ancient Greek and Roman Tragedies (1819 words, 3 pages)

"The Eumenides" was, overall, one of the most interesting and intriguing stories I have read in a literature class. Most stories are hard to grasp and don't make much sense in modern-day times. "The Euminides," however, caught my attention and never let go. It tells the story of Orestes, who ... Read More

The Three Dramatist of Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles (1104 words, 2 pages)

Dramatist of Greek Tragedy There were many dramatists in the years of B.C. There were three of them that were known more than any other. Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles. These three guys are much alike but they also have their differences. The "Father of Tragedy," Aeschylus was born in 525 ... Read More

A Hero Assassinated in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (547 words, 1 pages)

Brutus, A Tragic Hero "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." (Shakespeare 3.2.21-24) William Shakespeares play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is based mainly on the assassination of Julius Caesar. Ironically Brutus, Caesars loyal friend, who was fashioned by Cassius and the Conspirators, is the ... Read More

Why Am I Proud to Be American (400 words, 1 pages)

America stands for freedom like no other country in this world. It's the most powerful country in the world today and many regard it as the land of opportunity. No other country can offer the benefits that America offers. That is one of the reasons why people from all over ... Read More

Tragedies of the Characters in Antigone by Sophocles (520 words, 2 pages)

The characters in the play Antigone all suffer a downfall of some sort. The major characters suffer the most, though. In this short essay, I will document on how the two main characters, Creon and Antigone, both inevitably become tragic heroes. The first example that I observed in Antigone was ... Read More

An Exploration of Femininity in Shakespeare’s Tragedies (3552 words, 7 pages)

An exploration of Femininity in Shakespeare's Tragedies. (Hamlet). In a patriarchal structured society femininity and the female are restricted or defined by the socio-cultural precepts imposed by the male hegemony. Therefore, in order to examine the feminine as presented in Hamlet and other plays, I believe, we must have at ... Read More

Looking Closely at One Part of Amlies Spectrum (1447 words, 2 pages)

Follow the Blue Arrows Looking Closely at One Part of Amlies Spectrum The color blue is used symbolically in the visual design of Amlie to represent happiness. Watching Amlie to gather info on the visual design of the film lends itself to the realization that to write a paper on ... Read More

An Analysis of Differences between Shakespearean and Greek Tragedies (943 words, 2 pages)

A tragedy is a play, story, or other literary work, which arouses terror or pity by a series of misfortunes or sad events. The plot is usually about the downfall of a great man. Many take it a step farther and say that the main character or the person who ... Read More

A Timeless Tragedy in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (409 words, 1 pages)

A Timeless Tragedy A critic once said, when one reads or sees Macbeth, one cannot help feeling that one is experiencing a re-creation or representation of what a man is, in the present, even in the timeless. Indeed, Macbeth is timeless. His situation is as true today as it was ... Read More

Why Is Othello a Classic Tragedy (639 words, 2 pages)

Miss Kylie Gray C- Culture Magazine 200 Shakespeare Street Playborough Brisbane. Qld 4000 Hello Kylie Thank you for your question regarding "How does Othello fulfill the requirements to be described as a classic tragedy?" The definition of what makes a Shakespearean tragedy is a very deep subject to get into, ... Read More

Am I Seeing a Vision? (544 words, 1 pages)

A VISION In a simple way we can just say the eye is nothing else, just an organ of sight, the same as the ear is the organ of hearing, or the nose is an organ of smelling. The human eye is a complex part of the body that is ... Read More

A Personal Story About Love and Tragedy (353 words, 1 pages)

Some people say that with the birth of a new life someone must go with god to take its place and in the past few years Ive had my fair share births and deaths. In the past few years I have also learned a lot of things about myself and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Tragedy Oedipus the King (2732 words, 3 pages)

"Learning comes through suffering" (pathei mathos), nothing more clearly represents the tragedy of Oidipous the King than this statement. Not knowing who he truly is and having construed his own identity based on the information he thought to be true but is false, Oidipous, through a process of self-discovery and ... Read More

Am Analysis of Violence Between Sexes in Three Short Stories (1929 words, 3 pages)

Introduction The purpose of this essay is to study various kinds of tension and violence existing between men and women in short stories Her Table Spread by Elizabeth Bowen, Rope by Katherine Anne Porter and The Time of Death by Alice Munro. In my essay I will view the character ... Read More

An Analysis Susan Faludi’s I Am Not a Barbie Doll (373 words, 1 pages)

Susan Faludi and Backlash I AM NOT A BARBIE DOLL. Before you even start reading, these capital letters catch your eye. To add more, she tells us it was held up by a little girl, which plays with our emotions. Susan Faludi uses very great strategies to grab attention. Facts, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Tragedy of Characters in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (423 words, 1 pages)

Romeo and Juliet is a fatal story. In my opinion, there are many characters to blame for the tragedy that occurred. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two lovers whose love cannot apart them from their two feuding families. In this essay, I will state who or what are ... Read More

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles as a Tragedy (576 words, 1 pages)

The Greek drama Oedipus Rex is clearly a tragedy. It definitely meets the five main criteria for a tragedy a tragic hero of noble birth, a tragic flaw, a fall from grace, a moment of remorse, and catharsis. Oedipus Rex clearly meets the first of these five criteria. Oedipus is ... Read More

An Analysis of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King as a Tragedy (600 words, 1 pages)

Oedipus as a Tragedy by Aristotles Definition A tragedy by definition is a drama which recounts an important and casually related series of events in the life of a person of significance, such events culminating in an unhappy catastrophe, the whole treated with great dignity and seriousness. The Greek tragedies ... Read More

The Tragedy of the Columbine High School Shooting Incident (3037 words, 5 pages)

Music, Society, and the Columbine High School Tragedy By Adam Salomon Violence, it is the last resort of the oppressed. Since biblical times, it has also played the lead role in many events, starting with the murder of Abel by Cain. Religious wars, that still exist to this day, have ... Read More

A Comparison of the Motives in Medea and Hedda Gabbler, the Two Tragedies (1199 words, 2 pages)

Medea and Hedda Gabbler are two different plays, yet both have very similar motives in the end. Both women seek to control the destiny of the men in their lives. The reasons are not by the decision of either women, but by the hands of Fate, something out of their ... Read More

Marcus Brutus in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (955 words, 4 pages)

Marcus Brutus William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is mainly based on the assassination of Julius Caesar. The character who was in charge of the assassination was, ironically, Marcus Brutus, a servant and close friend to Julius Caesar. (httpclassics.mit.eduPlutarchmbrutus.sum.html) But what would cause a person to kill a ... Read More

A Compariosn of Two Tragedies: Macbeth and Hamlet by William Shakespeare (505 words, 1 pages)

The Tragedies of Macbeth and Hamlet Macbeth is a Shakespearean tale about a confused Scottish noble that does not know how to utilize his ambition. He succumbs to temptation, which is partly supplied by his wife, and he kills to get the position of king. Hamlet, on the other hand, ... Read More

A Discussion on Whether Macbeth is a Tragedy or a Satire (2072 words, 7 pages)

MacBeth - Trajedy or Satire?- William Shakespeare wrote four great tragedies, the last of which was written in 1606 and titled Macbeth. This "tragedy", as it is considered by societal critics of yesterday's literary world, scrutinizes the evil dimension of conflict, offering a dark and gloomy atmosphere of a world ... Read More

An Analysis of the Tragedy and Irony in Oedious the King by Sophocles (1298 words, 2 pages)

Sophocles' Oedipus the King was considered by Aristotle to be the faultless model of a tragedy. The reason Aristotle considered Oedipus the King to be matchless was due to the fact that it flawlessly adhered to his stringent criteria of an effective tragedy. In Aristotle's The Poetics he describes how ... Read More

The Existentialist View of Mankind In “I Am Me and You Are You” (627 words, 1 pages)

I Am Me, and You Are You Existentialists view mankind as individuals whose unique past experiences establish personal characteristics that set all of us apart. This idea can be best expressed in an intuitive statement by a celebrated individualist, Tarzan. "Me Tarzan, you Jane" is at the nucleus of the ... Read More

A Narrative About Tragedies of Life and Death (1173 words, 2 pages)

It was a rainy Friday night when my family went to church, having not a clue what was in stored for us. It was then that I first heard about Vasiliy. He, handsome, six feet, eighteen-year old, with sparkling blue eyes, was in a hospital, unconscious. Nobody knew what happened ... Read More

The Concept of Tragedy in the Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles (4092 words, 6 pages)

How does the concept of fate operate within the tragedy text? To answer this question, I have studied the concept of fate in The Oedipus Trilogy, by Sophocles. References are made to all three plays, with Oedipus the King being analysed in detail. Introduction Are people truly responsible for their ... Read More

A Discussion on the Chernobyl Tragedy (3244 words, 4 pages)

On April 26, 1986 at 123 am the core of the fourth reactor at the V.I. Lenin nuclear power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine exploded, ripping off the roof, and spaying radioactive material everywhere. Chernobyl is known as " the worst nuclear disaster in history" . The graphite core of the ... Read More

To Prevent a Tyrant in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1709 words, 3 pages)

The Changing Character of Caius Cassius William Shakespeares The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a historically based play about the murder of Julius Caesar by a group of conspirators in attempt to prevent him from becoming a tyrant, and the civil war that followed in Ancient Rome. One of the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Performance of Team Canada in the Pan Am Games (402 words, 1 pages)

Canada has sent a baseball team to the Pan Am Games seven times prior to 1999. Beginning in 1967, Canada participated in every Pan Am Games up until 1995. By and large Canada has struggled at the event, never finishing higher than fourth place. Canada has finished in fifth once ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013