History‚ W. K. Wimsatt & Cleant Brooks‚ New York: Knopf‚ 1957. Coleridge‚ S. T.‚ Biographia Literaria‚ Chap.XIV‚ J. Shawcross‚ O.U.P.‚ (1907); English Critical Texts‚ ed Dyson‚ A. E.; Butt‚ John‚ Augustans and Romantics‚ London: O.U.P.‚ 1940. Frye‚ Northrop‚ Anatomy of Criticism‚ New Jersey: Princeton University Press‚ 1957. Humphreys‚ A. R.‚ ‘Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison’‚ British Writers‚ Vol.-III‚ Ed. Ian Scott & Kilvert‚ New York: Charles Scribner’s Son‚ 1978. Longinus‚ ‘On the Sublime’
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Insights and Opinions on Canadian Identity Read and reflect on the following quotes about Canada and Canadian Identity. “Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.” ~ Marshall McLuhan “There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada‚ and the second is the survival of Canada.” ~ Frank R. Scott “It is more than four centuries since the Aboriginals‚ francophones‚ and anglophones began their complex intercourse in this
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the people‚ being allowed to say things that most people can’t or won’t say about their own lives. To do this‚ these humorists use many techniques‚ one of the more famous ones being the ever changing technique of satire. According to a quote from Northrop Fry’s
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between the audience the characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof‚ Brick can be considered an archetypal tragic hero or‚ arguably‚ an unbalanced hero. Brick is a textbook tragic hero‚ according to Northrop Frye: “Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them‚ the greatest trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course
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TRAGEDY Aristotle A tragedy is the imitation of an action of some magnitude that is serious and also complete in itself‚ in language with pleasurable accessories [rhythm and harmony]‚ in a dramatic‚ not a narrative form‚ with incidents arousing pity and fear‚ to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. Elements are these: Plot--most important‚ should be complex Character--tragic hero--elevated; brought down Diction Thought Spectacle Melody Peripety--change from one state of
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Hamlet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ is one of the most celebrated plays in the English language. Throughout the play‚ Hamlet struggles with the death of his father and the swift remarriage of his mother to his father" ’"s brother. In Act I‚ scene iv‚ his father" ’"s ghost appears‚ urging Hamlet for revenge over his untimely murder (committed by his own brother). Taken aback by shock‚ Hamlet agrees with to revenge‚ ’" ’...with wings as swift / as meditation or the thoughts of love ’" ’ (I.iv.29-30).
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rule‚ they are male protagonists. But to say that Shakespeare’s female characters are shallow‚ undeveloped and used just as a decoration on the stage is very wrong. Women in Shakespeare’s tragedies have no leading role and they are‚ to paraphrase Northrop Frye‚[1] not tragic heroines‚ but heroines in a tragedy. All female characters in Shakespeare’s tragedies have one thing in common – they end up dead. It is always an untimely‚ unnatural death. This rule (rather than coincidence) is a theme of many
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The human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature‚ either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the books we read had to have been thought
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AP Literature Free-Response Prompts – Wuthering Heights in-class essay These are examples of the AP open prompt from previous years. Select one of the prompts that specifically listed Wuthering Heights as a possible writing subject to deal with the given topic. You will write your in-class Wuthering Heights essay on Tuesday. To see examples of how students develop their essays using these writing prompts‚ see the .PDF file on the 2010 scoring rubric and sample essays. 1983. From a novel or play
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Unit Four: Ethan Frome In the novella Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton‚ main character Ethan Frome is a man that faces many disappointments as well no self-assurance. Ethan Frome is definitely a tragic figure that functions as an instrument of the suffering of others in the novel. Ethan Frome overall is a very tragic tale of misery and suffering‚ and any of the main characters involved can be connected to that suffering. Wharton makes Ethan not only the victim‚ but the function of all the other characters
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