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

the "tragic flaw." In Oedipuss case, his tragic flaw is his pride. That flaw has to cause him great suffering, but from that suffe...

in the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

happiness may not be found during our earthly lifetimes, rather, it is in our eternal life that our happiness will be gained. In ...

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

not have a voice, but it is also true that there are provisions for the people to participate in government. For Aristotle (1996...

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

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

within the play. CHARACTER - the personality or the part an actor represents in a play; a role played by an actor in a play" (Aris...

When examining ethical theory and philosophies of hope, happiness is often at the forefront. It seems that the goal of most people...

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

weight, how to raise children properly and so forth. The majority of people are not much interested in deeper issues. One may rel...

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...

essence (Honderich, 1995). Aristotles theory is something that focuses on the idea that something is one thing in and of itself a...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

(2005) notes, if the audience considers that the source is speaking from an objective standpoint or from motives of altruism, then...

only one who is not happy. It is not as if the reader has to identify with him in order to understand the point, which is that no ...

Thought is Aristotles third category. McManus (1999) speculates that this category can be associated with what modern critics woul...

achieve this level of human excellence by adhering to the fourteen axioms acts of Nicomachean Ethics, which included gentility, ho...

should also be noted that persuasion is not synonymous with dogmatism: the speaker must acknowledge that opposing viewpoints exist...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

In six pages this essay evaluates Miller's play based upon Aristotle's tragic components to conclude that Death of a Salesman is i...

philosopher, would aid in curtailing discord while broadening the trust that must exist between peoples. Using the Myth of ...

does seem that Aristotle aligned his thought about political order with the spiritual more than the practical. His ideas about the...

According to Aristotle (1997), "Reasoning is demonstration when it proceeds from premises which are true and primary or of such a ...