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The Personification of Arch Romantics by Shakespeare's Orsino, Jay Gatsby, Gilbert Markham, and Emma Bovary

In five pages this report argues that the literary views of longing and love have long shaped conventional attitudes and examine t...

Tragedy of William Shakespeare's King Lear

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Exxon Valdez Tragedy of 1989 and Its Impact Upon the Environment

Birds were hardly the only species to be impacted by the spill however. Million of fish joined the quarter million of sea bird ca...

Thematic Elements of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Macbeth

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin

most pressing issues of the times if none of Hardins suggestions are acted upon, a concept that is rightfully supported by many of...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Marxism and the Tragedy of Okonkwo

Okonkwos, as seen in the words of another author who notes, "The labour of colonial peoples was exploited on plantations and in mi...

Melodrama as Both Tragedy and Comedy

retelling of the Faust legend; the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in return for success and love in this world. ...

Paul H. Carlson's The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877

endeavor and not one that was expected to take very long. However, this routine project turned into a disaster primarily becaus...

Aristotle, Tragedy, and Oedipus Rex

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

King Lear Acting a Fool in the Tragedy by William Shakespeare

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

David Hwang's M. Butterfly: Power + Art = Tragedy

The influence of power and art on the play as conveyed through Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is analyzed in a paper con...

Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, as Aristotelian Tragedies

This essay offers a comparison between "Hamlet and "Death of a Salesman," which draws upon the Aristotelian criteria for tragedy....

"Ethan Frome" - Perception and Personal Tragedy

withdrawn and isolated in Starkfield is reinforced by the next statement, in which "the effect produced on Frome" is described as ...

The Aristotelian Tragedy of Othello

soldiers, and Iago responds that he too is upset with Othello for promoting another soldier, Cassio, over Iago, despite Iagos havi...

Tragedy Associated with the Drug Thalidomide

Many of the physicians who prescribed it reported back that not only did it give a deep, "almost hypnotic" sleep to the patients w...

Tragedy and Comedy Compared in 4 Plays

it any longer and sign a peace treaty. "The Merchant of Venice" is much more complex and somber: there are many subplots, but th...

Theories of Tragedy from Aristotle to Freud

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

Othello's Elements of Tragedy

Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...

Greek Tragedy and Naturalist Theater

in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...

The Tragedy of Africa

ancient history; he was assassinated in 1961) find it very poignant: there is a stark contrast between what he hopes to accomplish...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Analyzed

assessments are largely accepted as valid (Smith Julius Caesar: An Abbreviated Textual History). Shakespeare, on the other hand, ...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

Ideology and Tragedy of Philadelphia's MOVE Movement

In six pages this paper examines the tragic consequences of the bombing of Philadelphia's MOVE group enclave on May 13, 1985. Nin...

Analyzing the Tragedy Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

professor who charts his own fateful course. He dreams of securing the knowledge which would make eternal mortal life possible, a...

Analyzing Coriolanus in The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

in, on the basis of her gender. Coriolanus was an extremely dutiful son, and his single-minded focus was in becoming the courageo...

Purpose of the Chorus in the Tragedy Theater of Ancient Greece

In seven pages this essay analyzes the many functions served by the Chorus in ancient Greece's tragedy theater. Three sources are...

Socratic Philosophy and Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Socrates' views on morality with those of Friedrich Nietzsche as expressed in Birt...

Greek Tragedy and Euripides

In ten pages this research paper examines how the Greek perspective of tragedy is featured in Euripides' plays The Women of Troy a...