Drama

Tragedies or Lessons Learned? Tragedies occur throughout many lives, but only the major ones stand out to the world. A tragedy is usually considered a despair, but in my seventeen years of living, I have discovered a tragedy is only a tragedy if allowed. I think of tragedies as lessons learned, not because they are not difficult, but because they teach me and have made me who I am. The world wide events that have molded me into the person I am today are Hurricane Katrina, by making me more…

Literary Realism is defined as the reaction to the rejection of Romanticism, with a major importance on emotion, imagination, and the individual. Although mostly centered on stories of fiction, it attempts to personify the everyday real life of the induvial. Works of literature such as Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Sam Clemens’, also known as Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, and Hamlin Garland’s “Under the Lions Paw” all attempt to relate to a particular identity of the…

I went to the University of South Florida to watch the musical play called Violet. This play was about a young girl who had suffered from a horrible accident, getting cut in the face by an ax. In the play Violet sets off to Tulsa in hopes that a preacher can heal her of her “ugliness”. The main purpose of theatre is to try and personalize whatever emotions the characters are going through. Emotions such as love, rejection, disappointment, betrayal, joy and suffering (Sporre, n.d.). Throughout…

The Seagull displayed breath-taking stories that gripped my attention from start to finish. The cast and the crew arranged the play in a stunning manner which imitated Russian Soap Operas and Realism. Throughout the book, the Northview Theater Company portrays the theme of “life is cruel” by showing symbols and acting. A symbol that the play consisted of is the seagull itself. Generally, the seagull represents living life with no boundaries. In contrast, Chekhov used the seagull in the play to…

It is argued by Aristotle in Poetics that a good tragedy is one with the correct plot, use of diction, character, spectacles, songs, and thoughts. Aristotle created the philosophy that a good and correct tragedy must have specific elements incorporated into these parts. It is by these elements that Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus is one of the best examples of a tragedy writing piece. According to Aristotle, the most important part of a poem is the plot. More specifically, Aristotle provides insight…

Plays and books are very different. Yet, they are very similar. Both can spark emotions and entertain us, but sometimes, plays are insufficient in certain parts of telling a story. Also, books have very great detail and tell the story in more depth. As we all know, plays can only have a certain number of actors at a time. It’s not like they have a clown car where 100 actors can hop in and perform all at the same time. It just costs too much money. But, in books, you can have a million characters…

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud was born on September 4, 1896 in Marseilles, France. He was one of three survivors out of nine children born to a Levantine Greek mother and a wealthy ship fitter father. His parents were first cousins. Such a successive mortality rate may have been in part due to congenital problems that played a major role in his illnesses. Artaud spent time in the Army and was discharged due to “self- induced habit of sleepwalking. His most productive works come only after a…

Often, people think their actions are for the benefit of others. In reality, those actions could potentially be harmful. People pursuit their thoughts and actions too far because they are often stubborn. In result, they end up realizing what they did was wrong after they have done harm to others. A story, which follows those events, is called a tragedy. A tragic protagonist in a story or play would be in a similar situation. In Sophocles’ play Antigone, Creon, the present king of Thebes,…

Realism in American literature tell us story of how far our imagination can go to. How we want that imagination to become reality, and escape of any “horrible” situation we might be in. American literature shows us the “realism” of life by given us contemporary social realities. As well as everyday activities of ordinary people, that resembled life. Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge, and To Build a Fire are stories for us to see how reality was in this time era. Stories like these try to represent…

The six plays that we have read for this semester could all be re-classified in any number of ways. However I have decided to take a look at some of the underlying themes that would potentially work together to unite otherwise seemingly unrelated plays. The easiest, and most obvious pair that I decided would work well together is Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard. Aside from the fact that both of these plays revolve around likeable male…