The Birth of Tragedy

When we think of a tragedy we usually think of a real disaster or a life where someone loses someone that they are close to or love. Williams Shakespeare’s play “Othello, the Moor of Venice” is a perfect drama play that gives you a little bit of tragedy. Shakespeare wrote the play during the renaissance in Venice and Cyprus. It was believed to be written around 1603. There were many details in this play to make it such a perfect drama. The play is about the story of Othello. Who was a Moorish…

distrusted high-flown approaches to his paintings and preferred to talk about his art work in his own terms of the emotions. Rothko was interested in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, specifically the Birth of tragedy. Mark Rothko cites Nietzsche to provide a way to describe his own sense of modern tragedy as he felt that his work related more to evoking a conjunction of pain and pleasure, which was a task that Rothko took most seriously. At the same time, the conjunction of pain and…

become the King. When told these things, he went from being a hero and noble to greedy and murderust. Throughout this play, there are multiple ways in which it was evident that Macbeth is tragedy. The elements of tragedy shown were: tragic flaw, tragic hero, antagonist, and a catastrophe. A tragic hero appear in tragedy such as this one. In act one, Captain says, “for brave macbeth (well he deserves that name), disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel”(1.2.15-16). This showed how the people…

It is believed that first evidence of artistic activity is a diagonal itching on a stone with a shark tooth, associated to Homo erectus around 500 000 years ago. However the oldest undisputed form of figurative art is a sculptured Venus figurine around 40 000 years ago. A time where human behavior hadn’t yet developed behavioral modernity which consists of abstract thinking and symbolic behavior among other things, yet art found its way. These first forms of art were not pure creation of the…

misfortune and tragedy. Which leads to the…

warnings of Teiresias and mocks Teiresias’ blindness. At the end, he learns he is a blind person until the truth comes out. Oedipus fits Aristotle’s concept of a tragic hero because the hero must evoke in the audience a sense of pity or fear. A tragedy often enables its audience to reflect on personal values that might conflict with civil ideals of other people. The audience must put themselves in the place of the person that is opposite of their character. Oedipus is a hero, and the people…

” (Vidal) Throughout “The Tragedy of the Commons”, by Garrett Hardin, it becomes apparent that “a finite world can support only a finite population.” As a result, the exponential population growth will eventually level off and the Earth’s resources will not be able to provide for every human. The annual population growth is approximately 1.7%, and therefore either the population or human consumption need to be limited in order to…

contains nine stories and one epilogue. All of the stories are meant to resemble Haitian women and the everyday struggles they face. The second book, “Things Fall Apart” is a postcolonial critique tragedy, written by Chinua Achebe and takes place in Nigerian villages, Iguedo and Mbanta. In this tragedy book it demonstrates the Nigerian life culture and the struggles the women face. The main character Okonkwo holds the major role of power throughout the nine villages. These two books connect…

Tragedy is an unescapable abyss that not only haunts heroes, but also the common man. In the play “Oedipus the King”, Sophocles tells the story of Oedipus, who strives to defy his prophecy, to ultimately show that fate is predestined and cannot be avoided. Upon hearing his destiny, he ignorantly puts the foretelling aside and suffers from dramatic irony as well as elements of astonishment and great change throughout the play. Thus, “Oedipus the King” is a prime example of a tragedy with the…

In today’s modern era, readers continue to be captivated by tragedies, none more captivating though than The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. In this tragic play, readers follow the story of the Salem witch trials in 1692. The play begins with a young girl in bed, unable to move. The town of Salem blames witchcraft, sparking a downward spiral of accusations towards the many women in town. Abigail Williams decides she must accuse Elizabeth Proctor in order to be with her husband, John…