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You have to know that every tragic play had to follow a typical structure. According to MacLennan, a professor from the University of Tennessee who is authoritative and reliable because what he says is supported by the site ArtsEdge whose purpose is to provide the “highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States” (ArtsEdge, 2015), every tragedy started with a prologue of which the purpose was to present the topic of the play. This prologue was followed by a parode during which the chorus entered the play dancing and singing and also explaining to the audience the context of the story and what happened just before the action started. Then came the episode, the most important part of the tragedy because it is where most of the plot happened. Nevertheless, it is rather a dialogue between the actors or an actor and the chorus than actual action. There was on average between three and five episodes, each of them followed by a stasimon in which the chorus singing made comments or reacted upon the previous episode. The last of the five essential parts of a tragedy was the exodus, literally the song to get out, whose purpose was to present to the audience what the moral of the story was (Englert, n.d.). Next to the structure of the play, there were also other important conventions that had to be respected by the playwrights: the hero had to experience…

tragedy. The effects of tragedy in the west have been deeply lasting. Creizenach said that “the rebirth of tragedy in the west is the greatest event in modern literary history.” Not only did Greek tragedy influence the world of theater, but also it influenced the thoughts of terrible tragic things. There is a work of Aristotle that deals with tragedy. It is surprising to find the earliest signs of insight into tragedy that reaches even beyond the technical side of the art form. The definition…

There is an emphasis placed on the realities the central characters are aware of and those that they are unaware of. Scodel mentions, “In all these plays, one character sees what another literally does not” Gregory 245). Dramatic effect and the emotionality of the performance are important elements in the dramas. In most Sophoclean dramas, characters will lie or not speak all together to create theatrical effects. Finally certain continual ethical values pop up within Sophoclean Tragedy.…

The play that I selected was The Persians by Aeschylus translated by George Theodoridis copyright in 2009 with the rights reserved by Bacchicstage. The characters in this play include Xeres, who was the King of Persia at the time and is presented in the play as a dejected king who was responsible for the downfall of Persia because of his young rash decisions to go to war with the Greeks. When described by the ghost of his father, Darius, he is presented as a young king who would do anything to…

different from other gods. Although he was feared by many, Pan was an important character in this period of time. ABOUT PAN Pan’s parents are unknown. His father could have been Zeus, Dionysus, Hermes, or Apollo. His mother may have been a nymph named Dryope, Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, or Aphrodite (Pan). He was worshiped in outside settings like caves. People believed that he would chase down nymphs, or beautiful women, and seduce them. He was so ugly, the women would always turn him…

In passage one Shakespeare uses diction and metaphor to show the reader the current mental state of Hamlet. The passing of his father is having a dramatic effect on him, while everyone else seems to be passing it off like it never happened. This includes his mother, who married his uncle just two months after his fathers death. Obviously this is a lot to take in for Hamlet and it puts him in a position where he doesn't know what to do with the emotions he's feeling. Hamlet is considering…

Feminism has gained a new definition a new understanding of female roles since the Elizabethan Era. Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare, is about a young prince, Hamlet, being visited by his father’s apparition urging him to avenge his death by murdering Prince Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius. All the while, Hamlet is enraged by his mother’s hasty marriage to Claudius and is showering his supposed love, Ophelia, with gifts and words of affection. Queen Gertrude and Ophelia are blindly…

Dynamics. What is Dynamics ? What dynamics is, is the growth, development, or change of something or someone throughout the play or in another book. This play has a family dynamic where each individual person has a type of development as the play goes on. Mama is the leader of the family, we can say, she treats Walter like the man he has to become to be or a in a way try to make him like Big Walter (his dad). Walter has a sister, Beneatha, she is currently a college student wanting to be a…

Both of these plays act on the premise that life has many forks in the road but it is the how people react to those hardships that control one’s route. These two plays, however, have opposite theme’s regarding the daily struggles people face. Although both the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun and Mrs. Wright in Trifles endure great hardship, the Youngers illustrate how family sustains a person, while Mrs. Wright illustrates how isolation destroys a person. In the play A Raisin in the Sun,…

net. He ran to try and get it, but it went right by him and rolled to the right corner post. I stood there in anticipation as I expected the ball to bounce of the post and wait for one of Montgomery’s defense to get the ball away from the net, but he did not make it in time. The ball hit the post and rolled inward, passing the line across the goal. I stood there both in shock and confusion. My team came running to me shouting my name. I ran near our bench with all the energy I had left in me.…