Tragic love

evidence that exists within Shakespeare’s play itself. The classification of comedy can be misconstrued simply due to the word itself. Throughout history, comedy has been linked to high-spirited celebrations of human sexuality and the successes of love (Simpson, 1998). However, a piece of literature can in fact be classified as a comedy while being absent of sexual

Tragic flaw, also called hamartia, is an idea that came from Aristotle’s Poetics. Webster’s dictionary defines tragic flaw as “a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy”. Shakespeare used this concept in many of his plays, including Hamlet. Within this play, Prince Hamlet, the tragic hero, has the flaws of hesitation, suspicion, and over contemplation which leads him to his death. First of all, Hamlet’s hesitation leads him to destruction. Instead of killing Claudius

Antigone, Antigone is traditionally seen as the tragic heroine of the classic play. Antigone loses everything eminent and substantial in her life to a cataclysmic degree and seeks her own death in the end of the story. In Martha Nussbaum’s essay, Nussbaum questions the conventional status of Antigone as the tragic hero and claims the true hero to be Creon, the story’s antagonist. With her persuading inquest to this classic tragedy, Creon is evidently the tragic hero of Sophocles’ Antigone because he experiences

A Tragic Story Category: How Macbeth is applied “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”(Macbeth 1:4:53-54). Are these the words of a man who was once a valiant warrior? Is this someone that knows they’re on the verge of corruption? In William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, readers are introduced to a main character that is battling his life’s struggles on mental and personal levels. Many aspects of Macbeth’s life change such as his wife, his friends and fellow soldiers

theory was developed for application to the literary works of poets and playwrights such as Homer, Aeschylus, and Sophocles, whose works were the interpretations of Greek mythology. This means that one cannot look fully to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero in application to modern literature. Therefore, many scholars and literary critics look to playwright Arthur Miller’s description written in his article Tragedy and the Common Man where he writes, “I believe that common man is as apt a subject

time pursuing his uncle, Claudius (played by Derek Jacobi). The prince of Denmark goes through madness, murder, an unsure love interest, he directs a play, conspires against friends, and finally gets revenge against his uncle, but not without killing almost everyone in the movie. As mentioned earlier, Ophelia (played by Kate Winslet) is a young and beautiful lady who is in love with Hamlet. However, her father and brother tell her to stay away from Hamlet because he only sees her as an object of lust

Of course, every story has a genre - fantasy, drama, nonfiction, historical - but casual readers rarely acknowledge the fine details of different works that help define them as part of a certain category. Some defining features are obvious, like spaceships in a science fiction novel or magic in a fantasy, but where is the line drawn when it comes to concepts, both big and small, that are simply hard to define or restrict. No matter how different they may seem, even two completely different genres

‘Until Act III Scene iii, Othello is presented as the archetypal tragic hero.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? Traditionally in a tragedy the tragic hero has several parts; noble stature, hamartia (usually as a result of hubris), free choice and a nemesis. Othello as a character of noble blood seems to conform to all these. Up until Act III Scene iii Othello, “noble Moor” is in an elated position and is very aware of his importance. It is in Act 3 Scene 3 where Othello takes on a

"Pink Panther" movies, and the films of the Marx Brothers and Three Stooges. * Romantic Comedy. Perhaps the most popular of all comic forms--both on stage and on screen--is the romantic comedy. In this genre the primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. In a typical romantic comedy the two lovers tend to be young, likeable, and apparently meant for each other, yet they are kept apart by some complicating circumstance (e

Written in 440 B.C in Athens, Greece, Sophocles uses this play to dramatize a series of events that unfolds when pride becomes more important than loyalty to family. Controversy still remains today of whom the tragic hero of Antigone is, but some scholars believe that Antigone herself is the tragic hero. Antigone goes past conventional expectations to stand up for her brother, Polyneikes. The decision to defy the orders of her Uncle, Kreon, proves her loyalty true, but ultimately leads her to death. Centuries