The Art A Well-Made Doll’s House: The Influence of Eugene Scribe on the Art of Henrik Ibsen Posted by Jennine Lanouette on Sunday‚ December 24th‚ 2000 A famous writer once said‚ “Because someone does a thing first‚ doesn’t mean they will do it best‚” and the history of drama certainly has done its part to bear this out. Playwrights who boldly introduce new dramatic forms (Seneca‚ for example) have often left to those who came later the job of raising their innovations to the level of art (as
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his qualifications (“Aristotle’s Influence on Our Understanding of Tragedy” 69). In fact‚ it has been noted that Oedipus is the model of the “tragic hero‚” because the concept is based on him. Because of his hamartia (mistake)‚ he suffers a peripeteia (reversal)‚ which‚ for Aristotle‚ is the heart of tragedy. Although often translated as “tragic flaw‚” hamartia does not indicate a deep or abiding personality failure‚ such as “pride” or “lust‚” but means a mistake of perception or recognition
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ANTIGONE KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING This tragedy is set against the background of the Oedipus legend. It illustrates how the curse on the House of Labdacus (who is the grandson of Cadmus‚ founder of Thebes‚ and the father of Laius‚ whose son is Oedipus) brought about the deaths of Oedipus and his wife-mother‚ Jocasta‚ as well as the double fratricide of Eteocles and Polynices. Furthermore‚ Antigone dies after defying King Creon. The play is set in Thebes‚ a powerful city-state north of Athens
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alongside him. Romeo and Juliet was written during 1595 by William Shakespeare who was about 26 years old. It was set in the Italian city of Verona. The play Romeo and Juliet fits very well into the Shakespearean tragedy. In the play there is a peripeteia‚ where the events take a terrible turn for the worst. One can agree with this pattern of Shakespearean tragedy when Tybalt kills Mercutio; and Romeo kills Tybalt. This event occurred the same day as when Romeo and Juliet newly married. The general
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iA comparison between Aristotle and Plato on mimesis 1. Introduction Mimesis‚ as a controversial concept starting from the 15th century‚ is among the oldest terms in literature and artistic theory‚ and is certainly among the most fundamental. Developing centuries‚ the concept of mimesis has been explored and reinterpreted by scholars in various academic fields. The word “Mimesis” developed from the root mimos‚ noun designating both a person who imitates and a specific genre of performance based
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Macbeth as a Tragedy According to Aristotle ’s Definition Literature provides us the various sensation; for examples; love‚ hate‚ sorrow‚ melancholy‚ pity‚ fear and joyfulness. Melancholy is the origination of many great literature works; for instances; the works written by the greatest writer in English literature‚ William Shakespeare. He wrote many precious works and his masterpiece namely tragedy of Hamlet‚ Othello‚ King Lear and Macbeth. The Tragedy of Macbeth seems to fit to an idea mold
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English project Equivocation Equivocation ("to call by the same name") is classified as an informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time). It generally occurs with polysemic words (words with multiple meanings). It is often confused with amphibology (amphiboly) (ambiguous sentences.); however‚ equivocation is ambiguity arising from the misleading use of a word and amphiboly is
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets William Shakespeare The Sonnet Form A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem‚ traditionally written in iambic pentameter—that is‚ in lines ten syllables long‚ with accents falling on every second syllable‚ as in: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance‚ when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets‚ the sonnet
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Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text: A Pluralistic Approach to Ernest Hemingway’s "Cat in the Rain" Author(s): David Lodge Source: Poetics Today‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 4‚ Narratology II: The Fictional Text and the Reader (Summer‚ 1980)‚ pp. 5-22 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771885 . Accessed: 14/03/2011 05:14 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚
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Estella Havisham: Most readers are appalled at the cold-hearted and cruel ways of Estella‚ but any criticism directed at her is largely undeserved. She was simply raised in a controlled environment where she was‚ in essence‚ brainwashed by Miss Havisham. Nonetheless‚ her demeanor might lead one to suspect that she was a girl with a heart of ice. Estella is scornful from the moment she is introduced‚ when she remarks on Pip’s coarse hands and thick boots. However‚ her beauty soon captivates Pip
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