Reasoning- Season One Her voice echoed with an obvious startle: “come and see something mysterious.” Without a second fiddling of the chorused call we rushed in our crowd of four; soon we were standing gaped before a halved orange tree, stricken with a fatigue that expired a need to mouth something. “How did this happen?” I finally said with a stutter, for I couldn’t seem to find a better expression at the moment. “Oh my God!” my aunty yelled and annexed a “Blood of Jesus” to the creepy sight, with
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accepts her fate and awaits to be avenged. I got attached to her character more than the others due to her emotional disconnection with everyone else around, she was vulnerable and I connected with her even though she didn’t play a big part in the tragedy. Clytemnestra is a character that I believe has many different sides to her. She was portrayed as a cold hearted murderer who is unsympathetic but also a mother who believes her sacrificed child deserves to be avenged. She blatently has no remorse
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Types of Drama Tragedy- a play written in a serious, sometimes impressive or elevated style, in which things go wrong and cannot be set right except at great cost or sacrifice. Aristotle said that tragedy should purge our emotions by evoking pity and fear (or compassion and awe) in us, the spectators. The tragic pattern: 1. a theme of fatal passion (excluding love) as a primary motive 2. an outstanding personality as center of conflict (classical tragedy demanded a “noble” character)
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a Tragedy but some say they disagree. This is because they don’t understand the meaning of a tragedy. According to the dictionary a tragedy is a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. This meaning matches almost perfectly with the novel. Every tragedy needs a tragic hero and that’s where Okonwo
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hole at the point of opening directly affects the state of the keyhole at the exit door. As explained by mr Fidelis himself, what we see as a comedy is just the manner of actions that sees to the opening of all the doors in a text, by contrast, a tragedy thrives because the hero meets difficulties and is ultimately unable to open the exit door both incidents are as a result of opening the first door with either the right or the wrong key. According to A.N. Akwanya, the theory is ‘a comprehensive
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mental and emotional affects of war, Owen skilfully delivers a searing attack on those who would encourage young men to fight without understanding the real horrors of war. Owen seeks to shed light on these horrors and in doing so highlights the tragedy of innocent men who are misled into
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well and be able to bring a safe end to this tragedy quickly. Please refrain from going to the site so the rescue crews are able to do their work. Any information obtained will be relayed to you in a timely manner. Stay calm and keep these men in your prayers. Thank you for your cooperation. Communication Release to family members I would not consider any other means of communication other than face to face to inform the family members of this tragedy. It would go as follows, I am very sorry
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comparing the recordings leads to a deeper understanding of the words of Hamlet.] The Need for Revenge The revenge tragedy was already a favorite type of play in the Elizabethan theater scene when William Shakespeare set out to write Hamlet (Klann 35). This type of drama typically included a play within a play, a ghost, violence, and scenes of madness. [Add more about revenge tragedies. Discuss the Pohlman recordings in this context.] Deciding to Decide
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My family keeps me on track when it comes to school and sports. Unfortunately, my family had one of the worst tragedies. When I was 16, I just decided to take my younger cousins to the store, but I guess that was a bad idea. Halfway across the street one of my cousins, Ja'Miyah tried to run to the sidewalk and was struck by a car. Instantly, she was dead. I had to witness such a bad tragedy at such a young age, I was just finally learning how to deal with myself as a teenager, then I had to suffer
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Tragic heroes hold a large influence within their social circle that ultimately affect those that are around them in a negative and positive light. In the play, “Death of a salesman” by Arthur Miller, Willy Loman becomes increasingly miserable as he progresses from a dedicated, loving father, though not without flaws, into a suicidal, delusional man. This would lead willys influence within his family to affect his relationships with Linda Loman and the negative impact Willy has in Biff and Willy's
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