Careful crafting of language leads to the successful communication of ideas. Language Feature Evidence Idea Sight Motif “…See better, Lear, and let me still remain The true blank of thine eye.” “…Your eyes are in / a heavy case, your purse in a light; yet you see how this world goes.” Idea of perceptionvs reality– […]
Humans are a greedy species. Our tendency to constantly search for materialistic things is a flawed part of our nature. Money, status, power and admiration. Possessing these things can inflate our ego to the point where we feel unstoppable and unable to understand our faults and mistakes. The tragic hero is the most identifiable component […]
Citizen Kane is a 1941 film directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film as Charles Foster Kane, a highly successful and wealthy newspaper tycoon who dies in the film’s opening holding a snow globe and uttering the word ‘rosebud’. The film centers around a reporter, Jerry Thompson, and his investigation into the […]
A popular film with a wide audience, such a good thing to ruin with analysis. Not a perfect tragedy, doesn’t fit perfectly to Aristotle or Horace but does manipulate the genre very well to appeal to a wide audience. Maximus isn’t the perfect character but does tick most of the boxes as a tragic hero. […]
Use each of the following words below to write an accurate sentence or short paragraph about Gladiator: Protagonist, characteristic, inciting incident, hamartia, hubris, catharsis, ‘in medias res’, peripeteia and anagnorisis. Ridley Scott’s film ‘Gladiator’ clearly integrates Aristotle’s five key characteristics of a tragic hero into the protagonist Maximus in order for the audience to reach […]
“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 […]
In order to fully appreciate the text, we need to delve into the relevant social and historical context that surrounds King Lear. Create a blog post and do some research into the following: The Elizabethan/Jacobean world view The Divine Right to Rule The state of England under Elizabeth I and James I Shakespeare’s education and additional plays […]
Aristotle had very distinct ideas about how an effective tragedy should be constructed and this right here, is the place where I disagree with him. It sounds odd to say that I disagree with a man credited with establishing a huge chunk of our Western philosophy, however, on the matter of plot over character, I […]
Thought The ‘thought’ of a tragedy refers to the key ideas that the play presents. You may have called them “themes” or “ideas” previously. They are, in essence, the same thing and the important thing to remember with the key ideas in the text is that they should be universal. If you need a refresher on just […]