An American Tragedy

In Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, the title character is a 16th century Moorish general of the Venetian army who, because of the cultural and historical background of the play’s setting, the playwright, and the original intended audience, is portrayed as both well-respected for his stereotypical military prowess and disparaged for his race. Similarly, because of Othello ability to fulfill the desires of the Venetian people they loved and adored him. It was not until they gained perspective into…

Athenians uses plays and theaters to increase civic engagement and to teach their citizens how to properly act in a democracy. In Sophocles’ tragedy, Antigone, the play starts when Antigone returns to Thebes and finds out that both her brothers, Eteocles and Polynices have died fighting for the throne. The next king in line is Creon and his first decree is to bury Eteocles in honor and leave Polynices unburied in the open fields to decay. Distraught between her values and the law, she risks her…

warning bell that tells us that something is wrong. As it known in abstract stories, myths, and religious beliefs reveal the role that anger has played in human affairs since the beginning of recorded history .anger movement also started with the American feminism and the connection between the women’s rights movement and abolitionism in the mid-ninetieth. Anger symbolized in class conflict, it characterized by the revolutionary movement against societies in one’s play realistic setting is used…

that the three works highlight the role and image of women. The tragedy Medea written by Euripides, was constructed during the classical era and during this time, women were domesticated, took care of their families and had few rights. Medea, who in Greek mythology was a sorceress,…

for the good of the people. Although these two bold characters differ in their ways of gaining justice, both Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr. neglect laws that they believe to be unjust, regardless of the negative results that follow. The Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles is about a women named Antigone who repels…

member could imagine himself or herself in the place of, and facing the same problems as, any member of the Loman family. Another convention of theatrical realism that Miller employs is relatable themes, including the American Dream, masculine archetypes, and parental roles. The American Dream purports that anyone can achieve success, but several characters in Death of a Salesman have different definitions of success and how to achieve it. Willy defines success as “to be able to go, at the age…

In 1949 Arthur Miller wrote an article titled “Tragedy and the Common Man”. In the article he describes how the modern tragic hero is a “clash between the character and the environment…” (Longman 532). In Fences Wilson introduces his spin on the modern tragic hero through Troy Maxson, a (53) year old African American man who was a former baseball star in the “Negro Baseball League”. Troy is a complex character; he seems content in the beginning, but as the play goes on his personal conflicts…

A major tragedy in American History occurred known as Salem Witch Hunt. In the year of 1692, 150 women and men had been accused, tortured, arrested, put to trial and charged with the crimes of witchcraft. The Salem witchcraft incident began when two young girls, nine-year old Elizabeth Parris and eleven year old Abigail Williams began to have strange fits. Samuel Parris did not believe that his daughter and niece were bewitched. However, Physician William Griggs believed, “the girls were under…

relationship between the United States and the Middle East is currently unstable due an emergence of terrorism. Thomas Stansfield, Irene Kennedy, and Mitch Rapp are all focal points of the Central Intelligence Agency and will go to extreme lengths to save American lives, even if it means ending the lives of others. In this journal I will be Predicting Mitch Rapp’s future, Evaluation Irene Kennedy’s involvement in decision making, as well as clarifying the intent of a Navy SEAL group. Due to…

The concept of personal identity arose arguably within the European intellectual tradition. It has etymological roots in the colloquial Greek term prosopon and its Latin equivalent persona, signifying “the mask worn in comedy or tragedy “or “the character an actor plays- dramatis personae.” (Chadwick 1981,193). As early as the sixth century, Boethius (480-524 C.E.), a Latin philosopher and Christian theologian, formulated the concept of personal identity as synthesis of the Aristotelian concept…