Euripides

to 5th Century ancient Greece. The residents of the region, Attica, utilized it to describe a specific type of play. Eventually, the Greeks perceived that they perfected this form of drama through the masterful works of dramatists, Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. Aristotle, a philosopher, believed the aim of tragedy was to “bring about a "catharsis" of the spectators” (Britannica). According to him, the five basic elements of tragedy are character, plot, thought,…

In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, the lives of animals’ shape Robert Ross’s identity in the war by creating his sense of morality. This leads Robert to value dehumanization and reject faith in humanity. Valuing dehumanization is often counterintuitive because we typically see it as a negative thing. However, it can be portrayed as a positive. dehumanization in a positive sense can be used to describe the alternative, life-affirming value-system that Robert learns from animals. Traditionally Valuing…

What forces shaped the Greeks ' attitudes to competitiveness? Social performance played a crucial role in the life of any Ancient Greek and the result of this constant performance was that the agôn became essential to the social dynamics of Ancient Greece. Agôn had a variety of meanings throughout Greek history, at first the term was used to define a space in which people compete however later on it was used to denote any kind of competition whether it be in an athletic contest or a…

Deadly Silence: Part Two “We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails”- Unknown author Taking off from where we stopped last month, we need to remember that people who attempt suicide value their lives, too. It is an error on our part to think otherwise. The community’s negative mind set towards suicide has given rise to a unique form of stigma, causing some individuals and their families to shy away from getting the help that could be life-saving. Stigma There are two terms I…

One of the most blatant symbols in Euripides’ Medea is the poisoned diadem which Medea’s children deliver to Creon’s daughter in an act of rancorous spite. The malevolence of Medea’s words nearly seeps from the pages when she declares to the chorus exactly how she plans to enact her vengeance. MEDEA. I will send the children with gifts […] and if she takes them and wears them upon her skin she and all who touch the girl will die in agony. Such poison I will lay upon the gifts. (page 26) Notice…

MacDowell explores the concept of hybris as not being solely defined as a human quality, but also that of an animalistic trait. “In Euripides angry bulls show hybris, and so in Pindar do the snakes attacking the infant Herakles. Hybris in an animal is an aggressive spirit as well as the noise that goes with it.” This is just another way which the concept of hybris is treated in Greek Tragedy…

The culture of the west and thought begun with the classical Greece. These officially started in the year 1500BC; however, the interruption of the culture of the West was about 1100-900BC during the dark ages of the Greek. The intrusion took momentum at the beginning of 900BC a classical period when the Greece would enter into their most glorious period (Merchant, 98). It is also a time when they were setting the basis for the dominant empires and nations in the millennia and the centuries to…

Mary Shelley does a fantastic job of portraying Frankenstein’s creature as the most humane ‘person’ in the book but also still as a monster. I say this as he is new to life’s wonders and deceits and is therefore still innocent when he is ‘born’. Throughout the book we see how much of an impact society can have on the moulding of a person when they are essentially growing (Whether it be physical or emotional). Imagine living with nobody loving you or even wanting to be your friend like the…

This research is a comparative study of the myth of "Pygmalion" between the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw and the Arabic writer Tawfiq al-Hakim. We chose these two plays because of their similarity weather in their main theme or the title. The importance of this study lies behind its benefits. When one compare between two literary works, it means he tries to break the barriers between of the two cultures and he also tries to bring together the work of the writers an addition to focusing on…

Edward Said’s Orientalism and his critique of the West has been called both controversial and groundbreaking. In his book, he outlines the different ways the Western world since the beginning of time has “othered” the East and therefore taken advantage of and exploited its peoples and cultures all while serving its own imperialist schema. While I agree with the argument that the West is responsible for a number of injustices against “orient,” namely that the West created a binary division of the…