Shakespearean tragedy

The Duality of a Salesman When Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman at the end of the 40's, it was with a purpose. There was much he wanted to say being a man of loud and strong opinions and Death of a Salesman may have been one of his most profound works. With this in mind, every production of the play has created thoughtful representations of the tale. The original theatrical run of the show on Broadway opened in February 10, 1949 and had a year and a half run (http://www.playbill.com/pro…

amongst other characters. One of the key characters in King Lear is known as the Fool, and he is the epitome of the style Shakespeare was using as he was writing King Lear. The Fool serves as a caretaker, confidant, and overseer to King Lear in this tragedy. He even goes with King Lear on his journey to the countryside after turmoil with his daughters. By the end of the play the Fool ultimately suffers the same fate as King Lear, but along the way he does his best to accompany him…

Either You’re in Town or Remembering Water Urinetown, while a humorous musical, is about more than being whimiscal. It shines a light on the depleting resource that is water; “But too bad the water that we share could fit inside a cup!” (Kotis and Hollmann 52). The conceptual minds of Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann, authors of Urinetown, align with Emmi Itaranta, author of Memory of Water. Their ideals concerning water contribute to a common theme exploring the possibilities of a world where…

Desire Under the Elms and The Glass Menagerie In our lives, we are surrounded by moments of tragedy that drive our will to keep moving forward. Our life experiences can relate to the famous stories that playwrights have written throughout history. Playwrights are masters at combining theatre elements of tragedy, religion, violence, and numerous relative elements that the audience embrace faithfully. Today, Greek and Roman influence is the main topic since they have inspired the famous plays…

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing" (Henry Ford). The path to success is filled with road blocks of mistakes. While at the time they seem like set backs the knowledge gained from a mistake is priceless. Mistakes are some of the key characteristic that will define a person. Mistakes provided guidance, for people as they mature. Mistakes are vital for a person too mature as they are the pinnacle point of learning. Even more so a person tends to have one mistake in…

This paper analyzes the semiology of art and its traces concerned with revealing the issue of art and the influence of art and artist in man’s life in Henrik Ibsen’s (1828-1906) play, when we Dead Awaken (1899) based on Roland Barthes’ (1915-1980) view regarding the concept of semiology. Norwegian Henrik Ibsen who is considered as the father of realism and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre in his last and shortest play, When We Dead Awaken (WWDA), “a dramatic epilogue”, that was…

the name of Giraldi Cinthio. The original story, was entitled,” Of Unfaithfulness of Husbands and Wives.” In the original story Disdemona was beaten to death with a stocking full of sand, which is quite a bit different from Shakespeare’s Othello, tragedy still befalls Desdemona. (Gioia, 2017) The story was believed to have been written in 1603-1604 and published in 1622. (Bevington, (n.d)) This story would not be a story without noting that William Shakespeare was the most famous…

“It seems that mother culture has done a good job on you” (Quinn 238). This quote by Daniel Quinn, the author of “Ishmael”, perfectly describes why humans today are so stubborn on our “revolutionary” path. Mother culture has guided or ,what some might say, tricked takers (civilized humans) into accepting who we are and our destiny, even if it leads to the downfall of the world as we know it. No matter what conditions we may be in, we still continue to believe in and trust our actions and our…

“If that was life, then it was twisted.” In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel “Twisted”, life for the protagonist Tyler Miller wasn’t a perilous adventure, nor was it a piece of cake either. For Tyler, life was in between, a twisted cocktail of good and bad. Yet, the bad always seemed to outweigh the good to him. Which Anderson’s first person narration of the book helps us understand and relate to. In the beginning, Tyler is still a young, naive boy who only wants to be seen when he commits the…

Epics and Tragedy are two genres distinct from one another in many ways. Tragedy is more compact than Epic, not wasting time on repetition or embellishments. They also differ in that the purpose of Tragedy is to show the downfall of great heroes and royalty, but Epic focused more on the heroic code and the glory of heroes. One of the things that both genres showcase though, is fate is important in everyone’s lives. Although Greek society’s ideals of heroes have changed from Epic to Tragedy, the…