Romeo and Juliet: Love and Hate-Comedy or Tragedy? For a love story‚ Romeo and Juliet has more violence and bloodshed than most TV mini- series. The play begins with a riot‚ ends with a double suicide‚ and in between has three murders. And all this takes place in the span of four short days. Of course‚ when you’re dealing with love and passion‚ you’re operating on an different level. The funny thing is that both of these terms fall in the same category. It is common for love
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Therocitus… Erotic Desire: Comedy or Tragedy? The bucolic world‚ first described in Theocritus’ idylls‚ shepherd-poets sing and play their ‘pan pipes’‚ share folklores‚ and woo beautiful nymphs all while tend to their flocks. In two of his short poems‚ Idyll 1 and Idyll 11‚ Theocritus tell two very different stories about an unrequited love. In Idyll 1 "Thrsis’ Lament for Daphnis” Thrysis sings ‘the sufferings of Daphnis’‚ a most earnest story of a bucolic hero‚ who‚ as the poem would tell‚ pined
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Medea play versus Medea film “Medea” was an ancient Greek tragedy which was written by Euripides. It also was the most popularity mythology that spread to the Apennines in the 8th to 7th centuries B.C. Both play and film’ plot are about Medea‚ who is a princess of Colchis and also‚ is a barbarian witch as half human and half divine. Her grandfather is Helios‚ the Greek Sun god. However‚ she worships to Hecate‚ the goddess of dark place. She blindly falls in love with Jason who is a prince of Iolcus
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Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat Author(s): Katherine Ince Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 157-164 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 . Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms
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“Rider’s to the Sea” as a Miniature Greek Tragedy Although RTTS is much shorter than a GT‚ it is considered to share the distinctive features of this kind of play. In this essay the elements present in RTTS which make it possible to identify it as a MGT will be analyzed. To begin with‚ in RTTS the heroine‚ Maurya‚ has been struggling against destiny all her life. However she is finally destroyed by fate when nature puts an end to the lives of her two sons. At this point the characters fall into
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What is comedy? What determines what is funny to a particular society? Comedy is hard to define and differs from culture to culture. Through out time societies have developed many different forms of comedy ranging from theater and poetry to cartoons and sitcoms. This paper will compare and contrast classical Greek comedy to that of medieval times particularly Aristophanes’s The Clouds and Ysengrimus respectively. These two comedies were composed in completely different time periods (about 500
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"Oedipus Wrecks" is a successful appropriation of the Greek tragedy in that it uses the same themes as the play in a modern context. The film is an appropriation rather than an adaptation because elements of the original play’s plot and characters have been used in a different setting to create new meaning and explore the themes in a different way‚ in this case a parody of the original‚ rather than using the same story and characters and presenting it in a different frame‚ such as a novel instead
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Comedy is performance which aims to entertain through humour. Throughout the ages there have been many type of comedy. These have included the genres of stand up comedy‚ situation‚ comedies‚ forms of anime‚ radio‚ slapstick mime as well as cinematic comedy amongst others. Some of these have been more successful than others. Whether funniness has been the sole determinant of success in terms of popularity is debatable. It is commonly believed that the funny factor is indispensable. However‚ this essay
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article‚ Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Greek Tragedy‚ by Daniel Mendelsohn circles around the debate over whether or not to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev‚ one of the two men who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013. There are also connections to Sophocles’ Antigone‚ and how the greek tragedy is similar to the situation many are currently facing. Tamerlan Tsarnaev is human‚ therefore he should be buried like one. In reference to greek literature‚ an unburied body is considered disrespectful
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The origins of comedy are in the 5th Century BC. So this was in the Greek era- these plays were performed in Classical Athens as parts of festivals called Dionysia. These were performed on different days to tragedies. Greek comedies would be zany and would mock both political and philosophical ideas. Aristophanes a prolific writer of comedy during the 4th and 5th century BC he is first and foremost a political writer; a satirist most commonly known for mocking the politicians of the time. Aristophanes
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