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'The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down' And 'The Great Mortality' - How People React To Catastrophe

no matter how harsh - are based within the foundation being forced to cope with unmitigated stress, fear and anger. Another simil...

Antigone/The Female Role in Society

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

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...

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...

An Analysis of Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons

individually must be good for society as a whole (Hardin, 1968). Once this philosophy is adopted, its literally "every man for hi...

Hurricane Katrina Tragedy and Race

one assumes, in moments of crisis like that that has befallen New Orleans" (Lowry, 2005). Jason DeParle sees things quite anothe...

Lord and Lady Macbeth's Relationship in William Shakespeare's Tragedy

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Women Renaissance Writers: The Tragedy of Mariam by Carey

fair I might have provd me wise:/ But I did think because I knew me chaste,/ One virtue for a woman might suffice./ That mind for ...

Tragedy and Triumph: Viktor Frankl and Nelson Mandela

II. Although Frankl and his family were prominent community members at the time of the Holocaust, Frankl in fact was a noted psyc...

"The Cold War Blinders And The Tragedy Of Vietnam" - Critical Essay

about much of its own global discord by virtue of its imperialistic mindset. While opinions about why Vietnam occurred are as vas...

The Tragedy of Loss in "Paradise Lost"

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

Could Othello’s Tragedy Be Averted?

gone to her and asked for the truth of the matter, trusting that she would tell him. Or he would have laughed at Iago and dismisse...

Human Tragedy in Eugene O’Neil’s A Moon for the Misbegotten

special gift or special beauty. Most people have something about them that is not quite pretty or handsome. Most people have clear...

Miller’s Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 ...

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....

Sociological Perspectives on The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

Greek Tragedy Characteristics of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Characters of Portia and Calpurnia

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

An American Dream Tragedy, The Great Gatsby

This essay describes the thematic function of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Six pages in length, ...

Arthur Miller's Tragedy Death of a Salesman

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

The Element of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

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...