Catharsis

Kaufman’s Ouervre Charlie Kaufman’s oeuvre consists of films that play with style, reality, and filmic structure to discuss deep issues of humanity. A Kaufman script has a few idiosyncrasies of style and structure that make it very clear who the writer is. What is most notable about Kaufman’s style is his ability to take the ordinary and make it otherworldly. He presents us with normal people, most often an everyday guy, and then puts them into situations of science fiction, fantasy,…

The guiding assumption of this paper is that expressing oneself through written or verbal modes of communication has a positive impact on the well being of a person. Expressions help people understand their experiences and in turn themselves in a better way. Studies have revealed that it is beneficial for people to have some understanding and awareness of their thoughts and feelings. For most people, the medium of expression is language – written or verbal. The process of constructing stories is…

The movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is heavily based on the Shakespearian play Hamlet. The movie has many similarities to its source material; however, there are very noticeable differences between the two. These differences create two completely different interpretations of the events of the play: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead takes away the Shakespearian glamour and tells a more realistic tale. There are many similarities between Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead…

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the highly admired gods. Creon’s position as the tragic hero is made clear after the good and bad experiences he encounters, but also how the audience reacts to the outcome of the play. At the end of all tragic plays, the audience leaves feeling Catharsis, or a purging emotion from the soul, for the tragic hero. Creon faces a terrible tragedy. After seeing the limp body of his bloody son, and glancing at the sight of his dead wife, Creon painfully states, “It is right that it should be. I alone…

In Poetics, Aristotle defines the genre of tragedy, which has long been respected as the only efficient and effective model for attaining true tragic effect. Despite this tradition, Shakespeare’s plays deviate from this framework, but are still revered as respected Renaissance tragedies. By Aristotelian definitions, neither King Lear nor Othello are ideal tragedies, but nonetheless they both adeptly accomplish the aim of tragedy. Both plays still arouse feelings of pity and fear, despite varying…

People often utilize the expression “an eye for an eye” to justify revenge. They believe that in the interest of restoring order to society, one must balance out the bad deeds that have been performed against him. However, the saying “two wrongs don’t make a right” also exists in common vernacular. This perspective believes that in the end, taking the “other eye” is a sin and will not improve the state of the world. Humans have often grappled with the need to avenge wrongdoings but hold onto…

In life, there will always be distinct cultures, customs, and traditions that one must either endure or rebel. In reality not everyone will have the same beliefs or come from the same place, which is why one must learn to respect other cultures. Everyone must learn to coexist although the cultures are not affiliated. The world is an enormous place with an abundance of cultures that in one way or another, have disparities. A person’s customs represents a person’s identity so when a person comes…

So much of the critical discourse regarding Othello and Iago is defined by the impression of the self - the critics' selves, that is. In a mess of questions of good and evil, right and wrong, critical supporters of Iago (T.S. Eliot, Samuel Taylor) characterize themselves as realists, pragmatic, practical, eschewing the supporters of the so-called weaker Othello, who conversely tend to describe themselves as somehow morally elevated, more empathetic. While the study of literature has never been…

Okonkwo A Tragic Hero in Things Fall Apart According to Aristotle " a tragic hero is a character who is noble in nature, has a tragic flaw and discovers his fate by his own actions". By definition Okonkwo meets all the criteria of a tragic hero and although written thousands of years apart and in a different culture Okonkwo is comparatively similar to Oedipus in Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King”. Oedipus Rex is the ideal tragic hero of Aristotle (Barstow,1912). Additional criteria are provided by…