Plot is the basic principle of any tragedy, especially in Aristotle’s eyes. His definition of a plot is what creates the incidents, and marks the beginning, middle, and end. To create a great plot, it must be structurally defined and allow the tragic hero to change ignorance into knowledge. The comical hero, Dionysus, leaves the mortal world and ventures into Hades to find a playwright who will bring Athens back to its old glory days. He encounters many obstacles and monsters, and succeeds in making
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Tragedy is centered around a character with an important role in the universe, and how they handle it through intense emotions like revenge, lamentation, and suffering. These characters are often presented with a task, either through their own choices or from influence by the Gods. These influences can offer the audience a way that they may safely feel emotions like pity and fear towards the characters, allowing them to be engrossed in a tragic story. Most of our principle characters were given their
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Many older Greek plays seem to tell of a hero with great accomplishments, but disastrous failures. In and throughout the play, Oedipus the King, by the Greek play written by Sophocles, then translated for modern times, is and is probably, one of the greatest example of a heroic tragedy. The author, Sophocles, first writes and portrays the main character, Oedipus, as man accredited for his great understandings, great pride, and accomplishments, which is, suggesting that he is a hero. The character
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John Keating portrayed many of the class hero traits. The three main hero traits he illustrated most predominantly are leadership, compassion, and inspiring. A characteristic Mr. Keating embodies in the movie "Dead Poets Society" is leadership. At Wellton, the school that Mr. Keating works at, he is constantly being reprimanded for his unorthodox way of teaching. He shows leadership because no mater what the administration say to him or anyone else, Mr. Keating plants his foot down firmly and continues
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always been the most favorite of the readers. His works are not just written in beautiful and poetic language, but touches different problems, actual in every period. Shakespeare’s works are full of sense and poetry; they are able to evoke deep feelings and make consider our life from different perspectives. The present paper is devoted to the discussion of The Merchant of Venice and the problem of law and justice that Shakespeare discusses in it. The Merchant of Venice is one the most famous Shakespearian
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How does Shakespeare explore the theme of ‘Justice’ in King Lear? It is often assumed that the role of ‘Justice’ within a play is to serve as the source of goodness and anti-thesis of suffering, however in ‘King Lear’ Shakespeare utilises the theme of Justice to portray powerful messages, providing not just a contrast to the deterioration within the play but an explanation for the anguish witnessed. The notion of ‘Poetic Justice’ or deserved retribution is arguably denied by Shakespeare in
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Structure The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. This poem follows the conventional structure and includes the usual 'turn' at the end - a pair of lines (or couplet) that either shifts the mood or meaning of the poem
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One’s life story can be written out of two words. In this case it’s precision and persimmons. It’s crazy how two words with different meanings can mean the same thing or paint the same picture. This poem has two words that bring a flurry of memories back to the poet mind beginning with a persimmon. The persimmon shows a loving connection between two people. “Persimmons” is a free verse poem by Li-Young Lee, who tells a narrative that being in elementary school. He didn’t know the difference between
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ties them together thus making readers pay more attention to the words written in the poem. Assonance is used in this poem as well to emphasize the greatness of God such as in “twist the sinews”. There are two different sounds in the poem. By using poetic devices he further develops the questions about the natures of God. Another example of assonance is "the fire of thine eyes". In this line, the "i" in fire and thine and the first "e" in eyes create the assonance. The significance of this device is
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LEAVING BELFAST Leaving Belfast is a poem by Andrew Motion (1952 - …) an English poet, novelist and biographer. The story seems to be situated in Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, which had been the scene of various episodes of sectarian conflict between its Roman Catholic and Protestant populations at that time. These opposing groups in this conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively, although they are also referred to as 'nationalist' and 'unionist'. The
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