Philosophical realism

The theatre began when the ritual played a role in the development of drama in the days of early people. The ancient societies used ritual to represent their understanding of the human condition and of the world around them . The ritual had a religious purpose, and instructive purpose. It was also a form of entertainment. There were common elements found in ritual such as music, dance and mask and costume. In the early years of the fifth century B.C, Greek literature, theatre, and culture…

The Lady of Shallot Romanticism was a time in European history that was all about feelings and emotion rather than reason. This era was also considered to be a philosophical movement for people to become more emotionally self-aware to improve society. During the romanticism period, artists, authors, etc. took a different route, then how it was in the Neoclassical era. Artists chose to go in a more emotional, creative style for their creations. These artists also chose to display more…

The definition of the bildungsroman has, is, and will continue to be debated simply by the nature of “education” or “formation,” in a broader sense development, as a requisite to the genre. What is development? Development can be characterized by a plethora of metrics, which by their own nature can be hotly contested and debated. Three things must characterize the bildungsroman: an adolescent protagonist, a journey, and a conclusion by the protagonist at journey’s end which is counter to that of…

He also emphasizes the importance of details of pathology being used in the creation of a realistic representation of life. Tougaw reminds us that “realism […] is marked by its scrutiny of distinct, even deviant, individual human behavior” (4). So what Defoe and realist novelists have done is to chronicle “the experience of strange cases” by using causal narrative techniques to make understanding of…

Chinese landscape painting in the long process of development, the formation of a unique style and aesthetic taste and a complete theoretical system. Similarly, in the Western painting accounted for an important position of the landscape is also true. These two objects of the same performance using different forms of expression of art in the world of art treasures occupy an extremely important position. They are in two different civilizations, the aesthetic value of these two art is the precious…

Western and Eastern cultures art reveals deep truths about the world. Cultures have different views and ideas about nature of reality. The direction of art is to portray beauty. With artistic realism in the 19th century and other shifts in taste, great art could be ugly in both its subject matter and its depiction. Western history, reality itself, created by God was conceived of as beautiful. The definitive voice in the identification of beauty with an ultimate reality was Plato theory. Beauty,…

responded to this issue, by developing a novel revealing to readers of his time potential disastrous consequences of such an act. To do this, Tolstoy had to portray life as not how it should be, rather, how it actually is. This ideology is known as realism. Tolstoy uses his realist gift to write about a woman having fallen in her honor of marriage. Anna Karenina is based off of the character, Anna Karenina, who is an upper class married woman that creates conflict with her husband, Alexi…

Renaissance humanist who wrote The Prince, which Machiavelli wrote for the Medici’s on how they should rule Florence. Although the Medici’s did not pay much attention to him or his book, the book is still seen as an important part of history for its philosophical and political viewpoints that can be seen today in parts of governmental…

Reading/Discussion Questions Assignment 1 1. Students improve in the way they think. They would be a better person, be happy, and find the correct truth about what happen in life. That is what Philosophy do to us, it guides you to develop your brain better. Also the word Philosophy is more often recognized as “the love of wisdom.” 2. The Socratic Method of teaching is one of the oldest and powerful methods. This method is very useful because it develops critical thinking and involves giving…

Contrapasso in Inferno by Dante Alighieri as Illustration of Justice Dante Alighieri, who lived from 1265 to 1321, was one of the major Italian poet and political figures during the Middle Ages period. He is particularly famous for a piece of literature which later made a major impact on the development of the Italian literature and the world literature – Divine Comedy, which he composed during the final years of his life. Dante 's Divine Comedy belongs to the list of the most gorgeous pieces…