Ruined : A Melodrama In Mama Nadi's Ruined

When someone loses their innocence from the death of another this can very negatively affect the character’s emotions.

This play allowed people to visually see the real-life effects of what it would be like to be sexually assaulted. The effects of what happens to the surrounding people within the community is also shown in the play. The play allows people to further understand the universal message of taking the proper steps to prevent sexual assaults from occurring. If proper preventative steps would have been taken, then Chloe would not be living as a sexual assault victim whose sexual assault was filmed and posted on social media for everyone to see. The play allowed people to see the horrible effects of phones and social media by showing how those two things ruined multiple peoples life. The play was worth doing, because if showed the effects of social media and the effects of sexual

We looked into Zhaboonigan’s rape and furthered researched and uncovered that Sexual abuse against indigenous women is far more prevalent in indigenous cultures. It is also prevalent to real life and just because it happens in a play does not mean it does not happen in real life Helen Betty Osborne’s story being a prime example and connection. Highway raised awareness of violence against Indigenous women by basing Zhaboonigans rape off the true story of Helen Betty Osborne so people could make the connection that sexual violence is alive and real in today’s world and should not be

 The play contained many scenarios of good versus evil, and the characters that generally possessed these feelings and intentions. But it must be understood that there were the intentions, the incentives, and

A tragedy is typically explained as a type of drama that displays pain and suffering, and where the main character, the protagonist, experiences a life changing event that alters his fortune from good too bad. William Shakespeare’s play, Othello, the Moor of Venice is classified as an Aristotelian classical tragedy based on the guidelines Aristotle sets when examining a tragedy. Othello is a general in the Venetian army, and the husband of Desdemona, and well respected by society. The play describes how Othello’s fate has an undesirable change in fortune, the reversal. In brief, Othello is portrayed as a happy, powerful man in the beginning of the play, and by the end of the play he endures pain and suffering from his own misfortune

The Tragedy of Macbeth is definitely a tragedy, but not just specifically for Macbeth, but also for many of the other characters. The play is a tragedy for characters such as; Banquo, Macduff, Duncan, Malcolm, and Donalbain. A tragedy is when a character and or several characters are suffering from a considerable amount of catastrophe, affliction, adversity and pain. This is normally not the characters fault, but while the audience is being entertained from the suffering of these characters, or at least feeling bad for them. Each of the characters mentioned before had experienced some type of suffering, whether it was their own death, or the death of another character could be someone very close to them. For example, the audience feels calamity

The most prominent woman figure in this play is Linda, but the male characters in this play also give us insight into women’s roles and help feed the feminist analyses

However, people can relate to the emotion that the characters feel whether that be; joy, betrayal, loneliness, anger, or greed. The lack of the emotion used in the film subtracted a lot from what could have been a strong resonating connection and love for the characters portrayed on the

play has the perfect Aristotelian tragic plot consisting of peripateia, anagnorisis and catastrophe; it has the perfect tragic character that suffers from happiness to misery due to his hamartia (tragic flaw) and the play evokes pity and fear that produces the tragic effect, catharsis (a purging of emotion).

Revealing the thoughts and emotions of characters, especially if they don’t share the same views, can help the audience get to know more about the theme of the play. Two main characters,

Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined takes place at Mama Nadi’s brothel in the Congo where a civil war is being waged and coltan is the new gold being mined from the earth. Mama Nadi reluctantly takes Sophie and Salima into her establishment to work alongside Josephine as entertainment for miners and soldiers. Before coming to Mama Nadi’s, Sophie, Josephine, Salima all experienced rape. The word rape is so common in our society that it has lost its intensity and heinousness to a person who has not experienced it. Rape is a general term to describe what the women experienced but it does not give any hint to the struggle that comes after the event. For example, what it does to a person’s mind, the lasting scars on someone’s body, and how it can change a person’s personality. Many critics assume that rape is the tragedy in the play, but Nottage’s use of the word “ruined” emphasizes that the real tragedy is the consequences of those soldier’s actions on these women 's lives and how it affected their interactions with society.

Although the word tragedy is often depicted as an occurring event that leads to catastrophic calamities and misfortunes, the Greek philosopher Aristotle determined that a tragedy, like all poetry, is a kind of imitation that aim’s to bring about the “catharsis” of the spectators and arouse in them a sensation of pity and fear. Shakespeare is very well known to uses these elements in his plays to display emotion in the audience. The play Much Ado About Nothing should be considered a Shakespearean tragedy due to several elements that take place throughout the play. These elements include Catharsis, A struggle between Good and Evil, and External Conflicts that are all present in the play and that are essential to a tragedy.

Since the researcher started work on this tragedy they tried to conduct a research on the purpose behind this tragedy. There is abundance of topics in the book to discuss that is why it became the focal point of researchers at that time and even today the research is going on because still there are many things about the play which demand extensive research. The book is full of various thematic implications as in betrayal, fate; murder, manipulation, incestuous love and many of them are discussed but still students of English literature feel there is lack of research on it.

The genre of William Shakespeare’s most performed play has been debated for a long time: is it a comedy or a tragedy? The play has elements of both genres, but one is clearly prevalent. While the story hits upon the tragic element of despair, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, is a comedy because lovers are separated, characters are in disguise, and the story has a happy ending.

Melodrama is drama of disaster and differs from tragedy significantly. The protagonist is usually a victim of circumstance. He is acted upon by the antagonist or anti-hero and suffers without having to accept responsibility and inevitability of fate. Melodrama has a sense of strict moral judgment. All issues presented in the plays are resolved in a well-defined way. The good characters are rewarded and the bad characters are punished in a means that fits the