Situational Irony: irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended‚ so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. 2) Dramatic Irony: irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. Devices: a) define b) describe how it works in a passage c) analyze how it helps to convey the plot in Oedipus d) Analyze how it evoke emotions in the audience ● ● ● ●
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Sonata in 1962. Reviewer Maurice Richardson noted that‚ even though the television production was probably seen by fewer than a million people‚ ‘‘it was probably a larger audience than the total number of people who had ever seen it before.’’ Source: Drama
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The Dead Poet Society The Dead Poet Society explains that we may not appreciate poetry by reading a book. Poetry has a lot of meaning that can be change by our experiences. Poetry is like our life‚ living to pursue our dreams and that’s poetry all about-our life that needs love‚ beauty and romance. Life doesn’t stop for anything or anybody‚ like poetry‚ open for expression. It allows the realizations of our ability. Verbalize what we think‚ what we know and what we feel. Poetry is alive‚ not merely
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challenges theatre’s claim to be simply realistic -- to be nothing but a mirror in which we view the actions and sufferings of characters like ourselves‚ suspending our disbelief in their reality.” (Metatheatre). It is present in many Renaissance dramas‚ yet it is analysed‚ understood and critiqued in a vast variety of ways. Davis claims that metatheatre awakens our minds to life’s “uncanny likeness” to art‚ theatre and forms undefinable. Metatheatre begins by sharpening our awareness of the unlikeness
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Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot - MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com PinkMonkey® Literature Notes on . . . Sample MonkeyNotes Note: this sample contains only excerpts and does not represent the full contents of the booknote. This will give you an idea of the format and content. Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot MonkeyNotes Edited by Diane Sauder PinkMonkey.com‚ Inc. Copyright © 1997-1999‚ All Rights Reserved. Distribution without the written consent of PinkMonkey.com‚ Inc
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Athens‚ Patriarchal Societies‚ and Phaedra and Clytaemnestra Upon first examination‚ it would seem that the two female characters of Greek drama Phaedra and Clytaemnestra are far removed from one another. Phaedra is seemingly a love-struck character that embodies pathos and a pathetic nature while Clytaemnestra has a cold and calculative nature to her. However‚ both characters are at the whim of the patriarchal Athenian society which makes these two seemingly diverse characters closer in design
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Agathe Detanger 3B Is love better conveyed through tragedy or comedy? To start off‚ I would like to analyze the words comedy and tragedy. In drama‚ tragedy is a form in which the characters are impelled to an unhappy outcome by forces or flaws beyond their control. Nowadays‚ tragedy describes extreme misfortunes‚ such as great personal loss or a calamity involving widespread suffering. A comedy on the other hand can be full of surprises or foolish situations that we don’t expect and it almost
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We live in a world where‚ without conflict‚ there is no entertainment. It is a convention of drama that there must be conflict between characters in order for it to be entertaining‚ and thus be successful. We can consider a text to be successful if the playwright is able to convey a view of a theme or issue to the audience that challenges our views as he or she originally intended. Through the conflicting views of characters‚ the audience is often exposed to attitudes and opinions different to their
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creative non-fiction‚ biographies‚ and historiography); fictionalized accounts of historical events (e.g. anecdotes‚ myths‚ and legends); and fiction proper (i.e. literature in prose‚ such as short stories and novels‚ and sometimes in poetry and drama‚ although in drama the events are primarily being shown instead of told). Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity and art‚ including speech‚ writing‚ songs‚ film‚ television‚ video games‚ photography‚ theatre‚ and visual arts such as painting‚ with
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Research Assignment Aristotle bases his theory of poetics on greek tragedy. He defines tragedy as "the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude‚ complete in itself." (Melani‚ 2009) He views that‚ "Tragedy is a form of drama exciting the emotions of pity and fear. Its action should be single and complete‚ presenting a reversal of fortune‚ involving persons renowned and of superior attainments‚and it should be written in poetry embellished with every kind of artistic expression
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