Tragedy of the commons

Tragedy or Not? Tragedy is the result when someone of high standard takes an unfortunate fall. Oedipus became king of Thebes but later finds out that he killed his father and married his mother, in the play Oedipus the King by Sophocles. He was looked highly upon until the truth came out. Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, did not start out with such a high standard. he filled himself with false dreams which led to his fall. Willy’s fall was not as great as Oedipus’s.…

In his essay “Tragedy and the Common Man” Arthur Miller redefines the genre of tragedy and the tragic hero. Miller defines a tragedy as a person struggling against an injustice in the world around him to which he responds forcefully. Miller states that the “wound from which the inevitable events spiral is the wound of indignity, and its dominant force is indignation” (). The wound is described as originating from an environment, but it gets registered by the character as an “indignation” or…

Racism is a common issue all over the world. Every nation will experience this type of issue regardless how develop they are. Racism is an act of discrimination directly against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Racism has showed how humans can be divided because of differences in cultural and physical appearance. History has showed that racism was always an issue for every people living in a diverse society. This issue can be seen from ancient…

Tragedy of the Commons in the American West: The Cattle Boom Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons is a fundamental principle in the study of environmental science. Hardin’s classic example is the herdsman who desires to selfishly maximize their economic gain at the expense of their community’s shared pasture. In his example, the commons are a shared resource or the open range. Each herdsman is located in a society that prioritizes constant economic gain, while there are limited resources.…

The Soviet influence spread across half of Europe after World War II. The initial intention of communism was to create a utopia society. Karl Marx formed communism because of his frustration with economic inequality. The wealth continue to get richer, while the poor remained in poverty. The idea of creating a society that shared the wealth should have created a society of economic equality, however failed to do so. The field of social and cultural psychology can explain why communism failed to…

The tragedy of common is the theory of Garrett Hardin where it is the acting of an individual person independently for his own interest and depletes the resources of common in a particular area of land. For example if an acre of community of forest which can hold forty cows are been shared within households of four with ten cows each, and if one of them add one more cow in the same given area of pasture for his own benefit to generate extra income, so does the others too but the pasture can’t…

The Rope America shouldn’t work. The idea that everyone of different cultures and backgrounds are truly able to (get along) be compatible shouldn’t work, but it does. The definition of improbable idea is something unlikely to happen. The idea of freedom that America runs off of is unlikely to happen yet America still succeeds. America succeeds despite being an improbable idea because they always reanimate after something devastating and they learn to unite through their problems. Most…

Since the works of Aristotle, an evolution of the tragic hero occurred. Once upon a time, only men received the title of ‘tragic hero”. In modern times, female characters also possess the capability of receiving that title. Aristotle placed emphasis on nobility as a characteristic for tragic heroes. However, he also stated that characters depicted as tragic heroes also possess the characteristic of relatability. Arthur Miller pointed out that nobility prevents characters from obtaining…

will despise my departure; it is a tragedy.” A quote from William Shakespeare. For some life experiences begin and end in tragedy, as in Romeo and Juliet they both loved each other but couldn’t be with each other and ended up killing themselves causing a tragedy in their life and to the lives around them. The original Romeo and Juliet story is very different from the long tragedy of the Vietnam War but they both have a catastrophe in their life. Both tragedies’ had a lot of violence involved,…

Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” is a cautionary tale against Man’s attempt to transgress his myopia. Mirroring the Greek traditions of architecture and tragedy, Hardy impassively elevates the catastrophic accident to an cosmic ‘intelligent design’ - an orchestrated ‘convergence of the twain.’ Hardy presents this tragedy of human “vanity” through a detached, almost reportorial tone, developed from an omniscient point of view. Particularly, he uses sophisticated diction and wordplay…