Death of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy The Greeks first defined dramatic tragedy it is evident that the Greek tragedies were a profound influence on Arthur Miller He was drawn to the Greek tragedies for their magnificent form the symmetry Aristotle wrote a significant thesis on tragedy in his Poetics His analogy was that there are four crucial elements that must be present in order to define a play as a classical tragedy Namely the play must incorp
An Erotic Marriage Argument A Discussion of John Donnes The Flea A discussion of the John Donne poem The Flea in reference to the relation between the erotic and religious language found throughout finds relevance in almost every line of the poem The two seemingly opposite ideas exist in a congruent fashion without compromising the positions the entities stand upon Although Donnes agenda when composing The Flea is not certain the tone and the subject of his other work give the reader a good imp
Greco Roman Influence in Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra Greco Roman mythological images seem to dominate Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra Ever since the humanist revolution started Renaissance writers including Shakespeare systematically tried to revive Greek literature and Greek mythology It was an attempt to establish an alternative authority to Catholic scholastic dogma that has the stamp of antiquity Shakespeares knowledge of mythology was almost exclusively Roman especially in relation
Human beings are instilled with various virtues and vices resulting in humans each with a unique identity A few of these virtues are courage friendship loyalty and respect Two important vices are jealousy and most importantly desire Once command and desire come together free will is formed as the ability of one to choose and carry out their own actions In Confessions an autobiography by Saint Augustine Augustine attempts to reconcile his relationship with god by explaining the downfalls of his
In the crumbling universe of Shakespeares King Lear a world in which evil and treachery is allowed to triumph for a moment too long and goodness falters under the dominion of the former a terrible irony is made resoundingly clear The ambiguity of the victory between the binary oppositions becomes one of the most unsettling themes of King Lear who truly triumphs Perhaps more importantly what become the cruelly conceived expenses of such a victory The prevailing question of cosmic justice pervade