Tragedy of the commons

Tragic Hero Tragedy, tragedy is such a bitter word, it’s affiliated with horrendous events like mass shootings, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks; although that may seem explicit, it’s not. Tragedy means “A dreadful event”, like a flood, but that’s just the mere surface of things, tragedy, or a dreadful event could be a man being laid off work, whom then would have no money, then no food, and eventually no life; that is tragedy. Arthur Millers concept of tragedy claims that tragedy…

Between ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ and DamNation Ben Knight’s DamNation depicts a conflict between Earth First! activists, hydroelectricity companies, Native Americans (particularly the Elwha tribe), and the federal government. The conflict is over several finite resources such as the salmon population, hydroelectric power, and ecosystem health. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the conflict represented in the film is a clear example of the “Tragedy of the Commons” (TOTC). This…

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet defined the Elizabethan revenge tragedy. Playwrights today still take ideas from Greek and Elizabethan theater and modernize them in their own plays, such as Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and The Crucible and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Undoubtedly, the focus, themes, conflict, and structure of a tragedy has changed and evolved from Greek tragedies and Elizabethan revenge tragedies to a modern version, but even still, they share similar…

“Hardin argues that exponential population growth – a main driving force behind tragedy of the commons – is itself caused by its own tragedy-of-the-commons dynamic.” I find my self-agreeing with this phrase, especially after I read the text. The influence for the population growth in poor countries is mainly derived from the need for the children to take care of their parents (old age, work, chores ecetera), since they live poverty and many children may die at a young age. For example, I once…

that arise, there are natural critics to poetry, and Pope describes this in his essay, An Essay on Criticism. After reading the Tragedy and the Emotions of Pity and Fear and An Essay on Criticism, it is easily discernable what important roles poetry has on the community and how different people perceive and use poetry for their own means. It is clear from reading both Tragedy and the Emotions of Pity and Fear and An Essay on Criticism that the purpose of poetry has no one certainty. In the…

The Attic genre of tragedy shares archetypes and themes with the classic film genre of film noir. Both Greek tragedy and film noir feature femme fatales, women portrayed as devilish or in the role of a killer, the topic of the inevitability of fate is highly prevalent, and both genres incorporate mystery into their stories. “[Film noir is] a low-key black-and-white visual style, with a hard-boiled detective, a femme fatale, rainy streets, murder, and a downbeat ending” (Jukes). The genre of…

“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” painting, it is evident that there’s a common theme demonstrated and developed between these two sources, which is that suffering and death can be overlooked and affect people in various ways. The author creates and develops this common theme by creating a tone in each selection and by placing common ideas and topics in both pieces that aid in creating the common theme. Some of the common ideas and topics presented in each selection are that the act of…

categories: tragedies or comedies. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is most definitely an accurate representation of the true meaning of a tragedy. The Crucible is an example of a tragedy of classic proportions. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude. According to Aristotle, a tragedy must be in the form of action, not of narrative and must have incidents arousing pity and fear. Therefore, every tragedy must have…

environment, many different ideas come about. For Garrett Hardin, it was the idea of the tragedy of the commons that was most concerning to him. He wrote an essay about the exploitation of a resource used by many people. In a short-term aspect, this is beneficial for the developer, but over time the resource is damaged beyond repair (Hardin). He explained the damage to resources as a result of greed. The tragedy of the commons was conveyed in Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, a story about exploitation of…

a modern tragedy while others claim that his play, All My Sons, cannot be considered a tragedy. However, to truly debate if Miller was able to created a modern tragedy, one must first know what a tragedy is. “Tragedy”, as first coined by Aristotle, a famous Greek philosopher, is defined as a play that portrays the fall of a good character because of a catastrophic mistake by the protagonist. A true tragedy must also evoke pity and fear in the audience which is called catharsis. A tragedy…