Drama films

Moliére’s plays are filled with farce, as this old art form started to regain momentum among Italian actors. After studying all of these art forms in school, he was finally putting them into practice. He started realizing that this style was finally reaching the audience. This comedic genre developed characters and events that were over exaggerated to create a He then used the structure of farce that included a run of stock characters (masters, servants, fools, braggarts, cuckolds, mistresses,…

A tragic hero is a literary character who makes judgement error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. Aristotle said “ a hero suffers more than he/she deserves”. He believed a very long time ago that to be a tragic hero, the character must meet five criterias. The character’s fate must be greater than deserved, excessive pride, the discovery or recognition that the reversal was brought about by the hero’s own actions, a reversal of fortune brought about because of the hero’s error in…

Memories tend to come and go when something in the present, such as sight or sound, triggers us to recall to the past. In the tragedy, Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller, the protagonist Willy Loman retreats to memories of both happy and sad times. These flashbacks are related to the present in which the given background knowledge helps readers understand the present-day problems of the Loman family. His interaction with the past interferes with what is happening in the present. Willy mentally…

Shakespeare explores the key idea of deception in the play including both the dramatic impact and comic relief it provides. Shakespeare creates many comical situations which are caused merely by Maria's deception of Malvolio, Malvolio’s self-deception and Orsino’s exaggeration of feelings to express love. Many of the comical situations that occur throughout the play provide the comedy of dramatic irony to further entertain the audience. Shakespeare’s representation of Malvolio is negative in the…

Professor Victor Miguel Ponce (2014) defines the Tragedy of the Commons as, “a natural resource shared by many individuals, in the absence of regulation, each individual will have a tendency to exploit the commons to his/her own advantage, typically without limit. Under this state of affairs, the commons is depleted and eventually ruined.” Ashford University is currently facing a “tragedy of commons” that presently affects many students including myself. I believe it has stemmed from the…

Irony is the use of words in a way to convey a meaning that is opposite from the literal meaning. There are a few types of irony. Situational irony is when something happens that is the opposite of what is expected. Another type of irony is verbal irony is a contrast between the intended meaning of what is spoken and waht the apparent meaning is to the hearer. Lastly, dramatic irony is when the audience knows something a character does not. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, she uses all three…

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream, he portrays the ideas of comedy [(incongruity, the balance of opposites, exaggeration) SP 7] to argue that all tragedies are actually comedies. The first element of comedy that Shakespeare uses to argue what tragic plays really are is an incongruity. On line 85 of Act 1 scene 2, Bottom states, "We may rehearse most obscenely and courageously " The mix-up of obscenely and obscurely provides amusement and sets up for other examples of bottom…

According to the video Dramaturgical Approach, Dramaturgy is a theory that explains how individuals manipulate their identity to create a better version of themselves in some situations. This theory was introduced by Erving Goffman, and he theorized that how we interact with people can be seen through Dramaturgy. This is basically a process people use to control how they are seen by other people. First off, by using their front stage self, people can present a better version of who they are.…

A tragic hero is a character who makes a decision leading to their downfall. A tragic hero play follows the life of this hero. In a tragic hero play, there are three plot points that the tragic hero goes through. These include the character possessing a flaw, the character having their fortune change from helpful to harmful, and the audience understanding the hero. An example of this style of writing is Oedipus the King, by Sophocles. This play follows the character named Oedipus, the tragic…

Going into A Behanding in Spokane, I anticipated not liking the show. My horizon of expectations had been built up by numerous warnings that there would be excess violence and crass language (not for nothing, because plenty of rude language was indeed present), so I was prepared not enjoy the show at all. I was not nearly as shocked by the language A Behanding in Spokane as I though I was going to be. It was a key aspect of the production, and something important would have been missing if it…