The History Of Greek Theater
.... the works of writers of Greek tragedy, Aeschulus, Euripides and Sophocles (whose Oedipus Rex he considered the finest of all Greek tragedies), arrived at his definition of tragedy. This explanation has a profound influence for more than twenty centuries on those writing tragedies, most significantly Shakespeare. Aristotle's analysis of tragedy began with a description of the effect such a work had on the audience as a "catharsis" or purging of the emotions. He decided that catharsis was the purging of two specific emotions, pity and fear. The hero has made a mistake due to ignorance, not because of wickedness or corrupt .....
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Antony & Cleopatra: The Definition Of Love
.... right for them. It is more likely that they love the place and the time rather than the person. Antony is also the greatest Roman soldier, and the respect for him by the people is enormous. However, this respect comes directly from his being an excellent soldier and a superb politician. Like other Roman soldiers, Antony believes in the Roman style of life: War, honour, and the Empire above all else. This changes when he meets Cleopatra. This is similar to Macbeth. Macbeth seems to be a perfect soldier until he first encounters the witches. If the witches had not made their predictions about Macbeth, he may not have done t .....
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Macbeth’s Destiny
.... Lady Macbeth and the opportunity to have the king within striking distance appeal to both of them. This causes them to act against their king even though they were loyal to him. The events all occurred because the witches’ simple knowledge of what would happen if they told Macbeth that he would become king in the future.
The witches use warning as “predictions” this time. They show apparitions to give these warnings. The first says “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff,/Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.” (IV. 1. 71-72). This warning causes Macbeth to send his hired murderers to go kill Macduff’s wi .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... take away his position of high authority. Oedipus displayed anger throughout the whole story, which did not help him at all. During the story, we learn of Oedipus’ anger as he knocked a passerby at the meeting of the three highways; “ I being enraged, strike him who jostled me…” (pg. 29). Later, this passerby whom he angrily and quickly killed, was revealed to be Laios, Oedipus’ father. Oedipus’ anger is also shown as he begins to insult Teiresias by calling him an old man; “Blind as you are in eyes, and ears, and mind!” (Pg. 14).
The final trait that was Oedipu’s greatest enemy throughout the play was his own truthfulness. .....
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Macbeth: Blood Will Have Blood
.... as she is being watched by the physic doctor and the gentlewoman. They both watch as Lady Macbeth has a mental breakdown of conscious, just like Macbeth is having. She is thinking as though she has gotten blood on her, also, when it is only a figment of her imagination. As she tries to wash off the non-existent stain of blood, the doctor and gentlewoman watch in concern.
Later, while still having her mental breakdown, Lady Macbeth also says, "Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!" (5.1.53-55) She says this the same way as she was also imagining that sh .....
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Massurrealism
.... and Conceptual Hybrid)
Massurrealism takes the surrealism aspect of its dream like psychic imagery and interprets it into amore mass popular, usually appealing entity. Pop arts influence on massurrealism is more form a creative standpoint, which is extremely vital in today’s age of overflowed media influence. (Carrillo, Massurealism: A Visual and Conceptual Hybrid) By definition Massurealism is "the combination of largely unrelated concepts and visions that portray the popular perception of modern imagery, thus procuring its momentum from the disinterested play of thought which is dedicated to the absence of control .....
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The Vietnam War And Hollywood Movies
.... when the Americans shoot them there is a rush of happiness that the opponent has been eliminated, "die you commi bustards." However, just a year later a whole view of Vietnam changed in Apocalypse Now, 1979. When a dozen of helicopters surrounded a civilian village, the Americans played Mozart while shooting M60s at the innocent people below. After things got a little out of hand, the choppers sent missiles to annihilate the Vietnamese. This violent scene sets a mode of guiltiness and regret. The killing of helpless Vietnamese children and mothers was not what the war was about. This presented a "bad" image of Americans. Seven ye .....
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Macbeth's Blind Ambition
.... of Scotland, King Duncan. Macbeth had just killed a traitor who rebelled against the king and now he is planning to kill the king! The death of the king is blamed on the king's guards so Macbeth kills them to save his own behind. What a traitor, he deserves to be slained and he should be beheaded!
Secondly Macbeth's hamartea of ambition blinds him from seeing where he lye as the new King of Scotland. Instead Macbeth remembers the third and last prophase of Banquo. It was that Banquo would not be king but he shall be the father of kings. The idea that Macbeth will not be the father of kings, really made him jealous and angry .....
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L’Atalante & Breathless Response Paper
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Breathless, on the other hand, held my interest. There was a definite plot as well as plenty of action and romance. I also enjoyed it because I had the feeling that everything I would need to know about the characters was revealed from the beginning.
This film had a much more “stylized” mise-en-scene than L’Atalante.
Some aspects of the mise-en-scene that caught my attention were the costuming and acting styles. The Bogart-esque costuming and mannerisms of Michel aided in explaining his character. Even though the film makers seemingly wanted the audience to never have a clue as to what to expect of Michel, he was a f .....
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The Grapes Of Wrath
.... is affecting large numbers of people.
Throughout the movie, we watch the Joads progress from a concern only for themselves and their own personal welfare to a concern for all the people in the world. This shift from individual thinking to wide spread thinking is most directly seen in the actions of Tom Joad. When we first see him at the beginning of the film he is mainly concerned for his own welfare. He wants to make up for all the things he missed when in prison. Later on in the film he is more concerned with the welfare of the family. When we last see him he has shifted to trying to do what is best for all the migrant people .....
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Does Michelangelo'S Talent Still Reflect After The Restorations In The Sistine Chapel?
.... Marking and bringing it to attention which areas had the restorations applied to is a very good idea.
I think that by going about trying to get these portraits back to their original style was not only an appreciative thing to do but it also gained us knowledge of Michelangelo and his style of painting. It revealed us a little more to know of Michelangelo and what went on during the time these paintings were painted.
I like Michelangelo's work, but seeing the video, I could tell a major difference in the art work and it seemed so vivid that it had been changed a great deal. To me it does not show much appreciation to Mic .....
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Sonnet 64
.... time. In these opening lines Shakespeare is revealing that our ambitions drive the building of higher "towers" and stronger "brass," however, even as we strive to create monuments of greater magnitude and fortitude, time will always be the victor and man's empires will be "down-razed." Shakespeare quickly humbles the reader with powerful destructive words, "buried"; "defaced"; "down-razed" and, consequently, one realizes that one day our present creations will stand no more and what stands in their place will only be dictated by time's "hand." The second quatrain maintains the image of time's destructive powers. With the rhyme sche .....
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