The Spanish Tragedy

It is by no mistake that Bechdel calls her father a skillful artificer. In Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Bruce Bechdel shows signs of being a melancholic. His melancholy results from the repression of his homosexuality and the shame that comes along with it. Bruce creates distractions for himself throughout his life so that he doesn’t have to deal with these feelings. Bruce feels obligated to paint a perfect picture of his life. By his end, he has mastered the art of artifice. To start off the…

One the Bear, presented by the La Boite Theatre Company and written by Candy Bowers, is a production that aims to explore the themes of identity, friendship, exploitation and cultural appropriation. The production also emphasises the grim reality that is the discrimination and oppression minorities experience, due to the inability of others to accept the differences within these groups of people. Although One the Bear effectively implemented Elements of Drama to communicate an intended dramatic…

Reputation. It can help a person achieve their greatest dreams or make a person never able to live a “normal” life. In Much Ado About Nothing, the character’s, Hero, reputation is destroyed by three men. Anything can change what someone thinks about you and your reputation can be changed forever. Even if you correct a mistake or someone helps you change yourself, someone else will remember. Somethings cannot be erased. If someone didn’t come to work for a week, that gets written down. When an…

Informed by Lacan 's Antigone Psychoanalysis and Politics, I will explore the political limits of an ethical act determined by perseverance in desire. The tragedy of Antigone by Sophocles, presents us with the attitude of two characters with differences. In which actors a man who holds power and a woman who is fighting for that his brother has a dignified burial. Are two sides of the same coin, different roles and the same destination; death. What is of interest to the psychoanalysis with this…

A common assumption is that the Iliad is merely a tale that celebrates the conquests of great warriors who create legacies for themselves and their families. In reality, beneath the idea of a legacy is a negative side. The epic poem is written so that the famous are the ones who experience the greatest misery because they are trapped by public opinion. In the Iliad, Homer subverts the ancient Greek trope that legacies are crucial to a fulfilling life. One of the most complex characters in the…

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns .” This one line from Homer’s Odyssey summarizes the epic poem in a whole. The story of Odysseus’ s journey home after war is one of the most well-known poems in history. There have been many variations to the poem including author’s basing their books off the poem and movies that were written to follow the story line. The…

The story of Elliot Rodger is a powerful cautionary tale, that is applicable to more people than one would like to think. Elliot’s story shows how a seemingly normal boy going through normal situations can be driven to commit heinous acts. It shows the extreme results that can happen when anger is allowed to slowly fester without release. It is important to analyze Elliot’s story, and try to decipher his motives in order to recognize at-risk individuals and give them help before a disaster…

The author’s account of the funeral in the Henry James passage conveys arrogant and condescending tones toward the ignobility of the crowd, revealing the superiority with which he regards himself. The irony lies in the difference between how the author and the crowd regard the sympathetic action: whereas the crowd mourns sincerely for the dead, the author scoffs at the lowly burial as he observes, disconnected from the rest of the group. He emphasizes this disconnection, asserting that he stands…

A tragedy depicts a dramatic composition containing a somber theme, generally involving a noble character destined to endure downfall or destruction through a character flaw or conflict. The Crucible, a classical tragedy, written by Arthur Miller in 1953, depicts the Salem witch trials and the havoc they created among the community. People also define a tragedy as a drama which showcases human suffering due to corresponding terrible events. The Crucible adequately subscribes to this definition…

Diseases and Sicknesses are two negatives people might encounter in their lives and the detrimental effects of these illnesses is the main reason of death. In Thom Gunn’s poem “The Man With Night Sweats” the person is suffering from this disease and he wrote this poem because of the deaths of his friends. Gunn tries to show people how detrimental this disease is as he struggles through life. In “Night Sweat”, written by Robert Lowell, by employing the use of hyperbole and similes, he tries to…