An essential ingredient necessary for creating an Aristotelian tragedy is the tragic hero. Aristotle enforces this in ‘Poetics’, the recipe book of the tragic genre, a book which Shakespeare has clearly followed whilst constructing his tragedy ‘King Lear’. In Aristotle’s eyes, the plot is the soul of the tragedy, the outline that guides the particular […]
“Can Poetry Change Your Life” – Louis Menand Identify the things that make this writing piece a strong example for essay writing. In the introduction of the essay, Menand wastes no time introducing the subject of the essay, his critical response to the book ‘Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music’ and captures the […]