Revenge Tragedy genre

terrified them. In Sophocles’ play ‘Antigone’ sea and storm imagery is utilised in order to convey this concept. Sophocles channels the Ancient Greeks’ beliefs about the sea into the Oedipus Curse to show its relentless, enduring essence. The genre of tragedy often contains such imagery, allowing the audience of the time to realise that natural order had been upset and seek catharsis at the end of the play. Sophocles uses sea and storm imagery, not only to show the disruption of natural order caused

used to represent a period in which there was tremendous growth in literature, poetry, and drama. During that time, there were many great playwrights; one of them was William Shakespeare, who wrote different genres of play, such as comedy, tragedy, and histories. One of his famous tragedies play is Hamlet, which based on Prince Hamlet’s revengeful plan against his uncle, King Claudius. However, some critics question Hamlet’s insanity and they believe Hamlet is actually pretending to be insane. The

a powerful magician, who happens to be the master of Ariel and Caliban, and a guy who really likes his books. When Prospero's enemies wash up on shore, he uses his black magic to seek revenge and restore himself to power. The Tempest belongs to the genre of Elizabethan romance plays. It combines elements of tragedy with those of romantic comedy, and like one of Shakespeare's plays previously, it asks deeper questions that are not completely resolved at the end. The tone that seeps into the play

English Extension HSC The genre of crime fiction reflects shifting social, cultural and political conditions. Each composer is influenced by these shifting paradigms and thus incorporates them into their texts, pushing past the conventions and boundaries set in earlier eras to create new sub-genres. Daniel Chandler in An Introduction to Genre Theory, identifies this phenomenon: "genres change over time; conventions of each genre shift, new genres and sub-genres emerge and others are discontinued

engagement with Hamlet helped shape your understanding of loyalty and authority? Authors of the revenge tragedy genre often deliver similar forms of formatting and construction in order to perceive the audience’s full attention. An example of this is William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, in which he extensively uses varying themes and concepts to impose the story of his lead character, Hamlet through a revenge tragedy drama. The period in which Shakespeare writes reflects the plays outcomes, nature and morals

Curiosity and revenge are what make every form of entertainment in the action genre truly enjoyable. The characters draw the audience in and take them through a plot to find justice. Separated by around 2000 years, Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark both possess a plot akin to each other with a similar main idea of attempting to discover the main character’s father’s murderer. These famous tragedies depict two tragic heroes plagued with incestuous mothers

throughout these novels but is one that lurks in the background but is always there. Another connection I have made is the destructive power of revenge. This is between Frankenstein and The Woman In Black. I believe this is one of the main connections throughout these texts because it alludes to the gothic genre, and the gothic genre is all about revenge and conflict between two people or a group of people which my texts suggest. My other connection is between The Woman In Black and the novel It

Dumas focuses on Shakespeare’s tragedies more than his other plays, a genre of theatre usually revolving around the words fate and fortune. It is the inevitable that often brings the sense of tragedy so well to the audience, usually paired with some awful dramatic irony that achieves the effect of catharsis. But if one reads The Count of Monte Cristo, one would find that Dumas himself does not really care for the existence of fate. This is the most evident in the count’s first conversation with Villefort

Comedy Comedy originates from drama focusing on the humour of a story to entertain the audience. This genre has existed since theatre if not sooner in common storytelling as people have always loved to share humour. As time passes comedy has taken on many sub-divisions as more fragments of society and other means have been combined into comedy. Its long standing survival is present in film as well, seen as early as 1895 in “Tables Turned on the Gardener” by Louis Lumière who not only directed the

1809, lived a life filled with tragedy. Poe was an American writer, considered part of the Romantic Movement; he became an accomplished poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic, and gained worldwide fame for his dark and gruesome tales of horror (Quinn). Although his writings were well received, Poe struggled financially. He was one of the earliest American writers to focus on the short story and has been credited with inventing the detective fiction genre (Quinn). He is known for great