Catharsis

enjoy their life and leisure time. The psychological assistance will help them in resolving their conflicts, which become evident in the older age and results in causing distress to them. Moreover, it will help them in sharing their feelings and catharsis to a reliable person…

respectable actions that justify the title of “tragic hero” prove that humans are not always motivated by self-interest but instead by love and belonging. As a man unwilling to destroy his good name in the beginning, John ends up experiencing his catharsis too late, a characteristic of a tragic hero. After Abigail Williams, John’s ex-lover, blames Mary Warren, one of Abigail’s close friends, for being involved with the Devil and Judge Danforth…

long and painful. In the end, one clear emotion is shown through Brother. Hurst, the author of “The Scarlet Ibis,” uses the two symbols of the hurricane and the scarlet ibis to demonstrate that pride blinds people from compassion and results in a catharsis. The symbol of the hurricane shows a direct correlation to Brother and how his destructive manner allows pride to control him and create a film over the empathetic aspects of himself. While the family is eating dinner a home, they see the…

The combination of fate and external forces sometimes requires people to exercise good judgement—the impact of a bad decision can be multiplied. That is the situation John Proctor found himself in and unfortunately for him, he exercised poor judgement and became the classic “tragic hero.” In fact, as a result he ultimately dies for a crime he did not commit. Another necessary part of the tragic hero is that he or she has a complete reversal of fortune brought by the hero's own flaw. Proctor's…

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Discoveries are paradoxical, complex and multifaceted. They require a catalyst and extreme or unfamiliar circumstances. In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest the storm is the catalyst, and the island is the anomalous environment providing its inhabitants with an impeccable site for discovery. And address the question. This is also expressed by Kenneth Slessor’s poem Five Visions of Captain Cook where repeat the above…

Today, civil unrest floods the streets of whatever city has committed the ultimate act of oppression, injustice, or violation. The people are chaotic, and they demand to be heard. From the pit of their stomachs the streets ring out in a symphony of cacophony. “Justice!” they cry, “Justice!” they plead, “Justice!” they scream. But just who’s justice are they asking for? Our society has so savagely depicted Justice that her sword now lies limp, her eyes are scolding- blindfold disregarded, and her…

The making of poems, however, is never a solitary or isolated activity; it is both a part of life and an evaluation of life. To write poems with any seriousness at all means that one is bound sooner or later, to come upon some of the deepest, most vital experience of mankind . . . . What the poem discovers - - and this is its chief function- - is order and chaos, meaning in the midst of confusion and affirmation at the heart of…

Andrew Niccol is a New Zealand-born director who has created futuristic films in his writing and directing career spanning 20 years. Some characteristics of his directorial style are colour and positioning to symbolise characters and themes in his work. These factors are highlighted in the opening scenes in Gattaca (1997) and In Time (2011). Each film parallels each other specifically through camera work and colour, helping the audience to have a clear understanding of Niccol’s directorial style…

The citizens of the World State are rigidly controlled and thus have no free will. When Lenina is talking to Henry Ford about the fact that regardless of their caste, all humans are equal after death, she remembers waking up in the middle of the night and hearing that “everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons.” (64). This illustrates how powerful the mind-numbing repetitiveness of the beliefs and rules that form the…

the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions” (Aristotle). Antigone accomplishes all of this and fits the mold of a tragedy. Antigone deals with themes like pride, family vs. state, and the effects of power effectively all while drawing in the audience…