Catharsis

Are zombies a myth, something we tell people to scare them or to explain the end of the world, or are they real? If you ever look up the word zombie you would know that one of the definitions, they use to describe zombie is a person who is or seams lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings. If you look around you them, you would see that our society is already turning into a zombified world. The people in our society just walk around on their phones or lessoning to…

Comedy, like every good theatrical performance, needs to engage the audience by evoking emotions based on what is shown on stage. However, a comical play calls for laughter, which tends to disengage audience’s attention from the play’s context. This self-contradictory nature of comedy seems to work against the aim of theater. This makes comedy a difficult theatrical art to work with because since it should find the right balance in its nature. Woodruff points out that “the paradox of comedy is…

Instead, it put him in a foul state of restlessness, where he envies the deceased. He declares, “Better be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy” (III, ii, 22-25). A catharsis is finally reached once MacBeth is dead, not only for the people of Scotland, but also for himself. “The [time] has been/ That, when the brains were out, the man would die,/ and there an end” (III, iv, 94-96). Lady MacBeth, as well,…

William Shakespeare said, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” In the Postmodern literary world, characters’ souls battle loss, alienation, isolation, and purposelessness. William Faulkner made a career out of exploring the darker side of life in the rural South and gave readers a glimpse of the social, economic, and racial prejudices his characters endured and hopelessly struggled to escape. This state of hopelessness defines the plight of the Bundren family in Faulkner’s classic As I Lay…

her marital disloyalty to the marriage. She also gives up to search for love and live freely. Mrs. Edna does not want to go back to her marriage life but due to social prohibitions that forbid her love with other men. The goal of the tragedy is a catharsis. Collective appreciation for our lives and a reminder not to waste them and to keep striving. This more sophisticated point brings the stark reality of our powerlessness into focus and so is less popular in the storytelling of our ear. The…

Race and Crime Name Affiliation Race and Crime When we talk about the crimes in America, it has a close and direct relationship with racism, Arab Muslims and African American people to be more specific. An observation says that out of every three African American people, one is expected to go to the prison in his life time. Almost same is the case going on with Arabs, after the September 2011 attacks on the twin towers of America. It raises a serious question. What is the reason…

Justifying Sacrifice: Barack Obama and the Selling and Ending of the War in Afghanistan Summary In his article, McCrisken (2012) outlines what wartime “sacrifice” means to America and how President Obama had used this image provoking word to gain support in the 2012 presidential election. In his election, President Obama praised America’s sacrifice and pledged that he will end OEF by 2014. President Obama stated that the U.S.’s security was his primary concern in comparison to rebuilding…

The world in which the majority of people live in today is one that for the time being is the summation of many millennia of human thought. Human thought has shaped the world, just as the world shapes human minds. Human intellectual modification of the world throughout time has produced numerous advances for society, but has also produced almost as many challenges for people living in that society. Homo sapiens are just as much animals as any other species present on this planet, yet are…

Not Only Off The Body Today the population of America obsesses with the idea to live longer that no time remains to live. The fact that reaching to physical immortality is impossible was clear long ago . Humans the brightest minds even were not able to create an immortal. Achilles , whose body except for the heel , was invulnerable , nonetheless , was killed . TV shows teach us how to kill supernatural immortals. Humans are mortal. Thus we need, at least, to find a way how to live longer .…

In cultural literature, there are usually two types of literature. An author generally chooses to compose either an epic, or a tragic. What is the difference between the two? An epic is usually a long narrative poem that recounts the deeds of a hero. Typically, this poem is exaggerated and/or elevated and the deed the specific hero performs are described as to be legendary. Furthermore, the epic, on most occasions, originates as an oral tradition. An example of this would be Achilles in Homer’s,…