Introduction The current analysis involves two plays, written by different authors to illustrate philosophical themes used to express meaning and purpose of mankind and their actions. The first play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, written by Tom Stoppard, has two main characters, engaged in a game of spinning coins to determine who is more probable to win throughout the process....
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Every individual seeks success and to fulfill their ambition, which can impact their lives in a negative or positive way depending on whether they allow their morals to prevail or not. Often, ambition takes a negative toll on oneâs being whether they initially see it or not. If an individual has an ambition or goal, sometimes they will stop at...
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Greedy for the crown, a displeased man, who is extremely susceptible to pressure, loses his morality. Several centuries later, a girl, who from an early age learned to transfer her rage into a fearsome ambition, is propelled into taking part in an unthinkable crime. The tragedy, Macbeth is perhaps one of William Shakespeareâs most terrific and popular plays. Written sometime...
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Racism is a theory. According to this theory, there are human races that present biological differences justifying relations of domination between them and rejection or aggressive behaviors. Racism is the belief in the superiority of a human group. Defined as a race, this group would be superior to all others. Racism is the hatred of one of these human groups....
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The desire to gather power and to control what one wants to encourage their greed can be a dangerous quality. King Lear, written in 1608, by William Shakespeare, is a tragedy that represents the horrible impacts of abusing power and leads to his death. The abuse of power plays an immense role all throughout the character's lives in this play...
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Compelling texts draw in the responder to confront new ideas regarding the inconsistencies within personal and collective experiences. The Merchant of Venice depicts the struggle of the individual against the imposed obligations of society, while To Kill a Mockingbird, explores the human morality where the distinction between right and wrong can be seen. Throughout The Merchant of Venice, assumptions of...
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In Sophoclesâ âAntigone,â the main character, Antigone, displayed strong determination and loyalty to her family and god. However, I sympathize more with Kreon because he was a man of his words and he refused to break social peace and state laws. Throughout the play, Kreonâs character exemplifies the traits of a tragic hero. Creon was suffering from his actions without...
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The growth of the Younger family is very strange but, an amazing one. They started off as a family that was struggling but was still able to make a decent living. They were expecting an insurance check. They got the check because he passed away while working. It was a $10,000 dollar check, but something drastic happened that changed the...
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âMacbethâ written by William Shakespeare and âMy last duchessâ written by Robert Browning are two of the most common examples linked to toxic masculinity. In todayâs car driven and busy city world, toxic masculinity can often go unseen. However, it is present more commonly than many think within men and women.Shakespeareâs representation of masculinity within his work during the Elizabethan...
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In regard to appearance versus reality, the theme of Othello is jealousy. One can reach this theme through analyzing different scenes throughout the play. Evidence for this is found in other characters and events all throughout the story. This paper will explore different ideas that cement the theme of this tale. One event that displays the theme of jealousy is...
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In A Raisin In The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, she introduces us to an African American family who has to endure poverty. Hansberry also shows us how the Youngerâs members of the family value money the most, While their mother tries to show them the value of family. Mrs. Younger shows the value of family by wanting to invest in...
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Effects of the past have come and affected peopleâs present as well as their future. In Sophoclesâs Oedipus Rex, the reader sees how no matter how hard Oedipus himself tried to escape his past, it only caught up him sooner or later. Oedipus was sentenced with a prophecy at birth, due to this prophecy his past catches gig to him...
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The notion of gender is fundamental to both the texts of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. They each centralise female characters who face oppression at the hands of their superior male counterparts as well as the pressures of surrounding society. Despite certain similarities, the unique responses of these characters are...
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âA Streetcar Named Desireâ written By Tennessee Williams in 1947. In A Streetcar named Desire Williams uses a range of drama devices to present Blancheâs deterioration mind. Drama devices are techniques used by playwrights to substitute for the reality presented to the audience through performance, and âgive the audience information they could not get from a straightforward presentation of actionâ...
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Macbeth is a play about uncontrolled ambition. Ambition is a strong desire to successfully achieve more in terms of status, possessions or power. It may be motivated by need, greed or vanity. It requires much inner discipline and inner strength, and the drive to be single minded enough to persist to achieve. It also requires an ability to learn from...
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Imagery is one of the literary devices that used all throughout literature, it consists of detailed descriptive languages that function as a way to guide and help the reader create the world the piece of literature creates. Imagery creates and add symbolism to the literature. Its known that Imagery deals with the five senses throughout literature, taste, smell, sound and...
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What exactly makes someone a âheroâ or a âtragic heroâ if you will? Aristotle defined a tragic hero as a man of noble birth with heroic qualities whose fortunes change due to a tragic flaw or mistake that ultimately brings the heroâs downfall. Their tragic flaws makes them more relatable or/and get pity from the audience. However a hero is...
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In Shakespeareâs Othello the Desdemona, the wife of Othello, ranges from a mix of emotions starting with the opening of the play having her be filled with joy and happiness until the end where confusion and sadness are her final thoughts. From this wide array of her character's paths, each detail of the way she is thinking is clearly expressed...
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Shakespeareâs tragedy Macbeth and The Telltale Heart, a madmanâs confession by Edgar Allen Poe demonstrate the debilitating effects of guilt plagued upon Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the narrator, induced by a series of murders to resolve their own tensions. Both texts manage to portray guilt as an encroaching hallucination, though what defines Shakespeareâs play from Edgar Allen Poeâs short story...
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Before entering a discussion concerning truth, one must first establish the definition of truth. For this, I offer the definition simply as reality. For example, we can prove that the existence of gravity is a truth using experiments, observations, and calculations. Truth is synonymous to reality. It can be proven through logical deduction, and should be predictable, or at the...
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Macbeth, one of the most famous plays written by the iconic playwright William Shakespeare takes mainly place in 11th-century Scotland and tells the story of a soldier that after being told by three witches that he would become king becomes consumed by ambition causing him to commit crimes such as murder. His drive became extremely strong, and he was up...
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Words and phrases are defined by those who emulate the underlying concepts. Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, and author-defined a tragic hero as âa character who falls from a lofty position because of a tragic flawâ (Aristotle). In Sophoclesâ Tragedy Antigone he identifies two distinct characters who represent qualities of a tragic hero. King of ancient Thebes, Creon, acquires a hamartia...
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Oscar Wilde once said, âThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.â Lies are an easy way out but as a result, lead to harder problems. The truth for some people is never simple and is fabricated. Truth gets passed down through people and over time it fades. There is always another side to truth. In the play, The Importance...
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Imagine a child living only under his fatherâs obscurity, his ideologies, believes, traits, all but the same, a very depressing way of life isn't it? In the death of a salesman, it describes just that. A grievous play that revolves around an old man rotting in his ideologies, Willy Loman. A man that believed being well-liked is the means to...
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What separates Hamlet from other revenge plays (and maybe from every play written before it) is that the action we expect to see, particularly from Hamlet himself, is continually postponed while Hamlet tries to obtain more certain knowledge about what he is doing. This play poses many questions that other plays would simply take for granted. Can we have certain...
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Introduction The tragedy of Othello, written by William Shakespeare, ⌠(link to question). In doing so, Shakespeare is able to decipher Othelloâs inability from appearance vs reality as his hamartia allows Iago to deceive him and lets emotion overcome reason. It also highlights Othelloâs struggle with the human condition, and his fatal flaw conveys his struggle to control his jealousy....
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Literature stages as a form of expression for individual composers. Some works mirrors our modern society, as they continue to shape and teach individuals. Playwright, William Shakespeare, with his 1606 Macbeth, tragedy play as a representation of the 17th century Jacobean era, explores the atrocities within the darker side of humanity. Many of these aspects have transcended time, staying relevant...
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Death of a Salesman is a ââtragicââ play written by Arthur Miller, an american playwright. The book is about the main protagonist, Willy Loman, a frustrated old salesman whoâs fired from his job. The text shows the fragmentation that the modern man experiences in an dehumanizing world. Biff admits that he wasnât able to get a loan to start a...
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In literature, it is very common that the hero faces victory or defeat. In Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, Oedipus experiences defeat due to a tragic flaw and not his fate. The fate he was worried he would fulfill, being the murderer of his father and husband of his mother. The prophecy ended up being fulfilled either way but that was...
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The tragicomic Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is generally considered one of the most important pieces of the modern LGBTQ canon of literature. The graphic novel tells the story of Alison Bechdelâs attempt to find the truth about her fatherâs sexuality and what lead him to possibly commit suicide. Along the way, Bechdel finds her own sexuality. Bechdelâs choice to...
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