The Rwandan Genocide was a tragic event that happened in April 1994 to July 1994. The genocide took place in the Rwandan Civil War, a conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu and the Tutsis people. The genocide made many problems for the world, it has many lasting effects on the world and Rwanda. The Rwandan genocide was as devastating as the Holocaust and were both left with a bad reputation. “After the genocide, Rwanda was on the brink […]
Tragedies happen all around us sometimes they can not be avoided. For instance 9/11 was not something that could have controlled, likewise grendel was not something you could control either. Both 9/11 and Grendel brought great sorrow to people and took many lives. They also happen to be killing for hatred, Grendel hated how happy everyone seemed to be the terrorist hated the Americans. Another similarity between the two was that they both left a huge mess behind, it took […]
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Get help with your assignmentIn 1968, many believed that a free-market will self- regulate. Individuals will compete with one another, which will benefit the consumers. However, Garrett Hardin believed otherwise. No outside regulations will cause a depletion of the resources. At this time, Hardin created the term “The Tragedy of the Commons”. Tragedy of the Commons describes a problem where each person will try to benefit themselves using a public resource. The common is the public resource that is shared by everyone. Since the […]
Arguably one of Shakespeare’s best plays The Tragedy of Macbeth filled with prophecies, murder, and nightmarish visions is timeless. Once a proud noble warrior the title character Macbeth finds himself captivated by the prophecies of 3 evil witches that change his life forever they give him a chance for power a chance to be king. With the help of his wife they set a course of murder lies and betrayal to keep themselves in power but in the end this […]
Hamlet was published in 1603 by William Shakespeare, a renowned English playwright and actor. This play brings up very sophisticated topics that were very often hidden and shied away from in Shakespeare’s time period. The audience follows the story of a young prince who seemingly falls apart after the death of his father and brings the kingdom down with him. Hamlet is drowning in grief after his father’s death and is driven by a rage at his uncle for the […]
In the play “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”, Antony is viewed as loyal to Caesar and honors his life by giving a speech to all of Rome at his funeral. His task of convincing the Romans that his death is unjustified is complicated by the compelling speech Brutus has just made about why it is justified. Nevertheless, Antony’s speech results in success due to his use of antithesis and gruesome diction. In his funeral speech, Mark Antony uses antithesis to […]
In life, people can change for the good or bad, or maybe the bad has always been in them and they finally let it out. All throughout history, you see groups of people conquering parts of the world, but yet to some, they are still good and to others, they are murderers, fugitives, and or vagabonds. Greed can change someone, wanting power can simply create a monster, like Christopher Columbus discovered America when he was a murderer inreality. Everyone will […]
The tragedy is an event that leads to an unhappy ending for instance death, destruction or suffering. Othello and Oedipus are two examples of plays that build upon tragedies that play out at the end with an unpleasant ending. In Othello, the play starts in Venice, Italy considered the land of water and love. The play centres on power and love where Othello has unofficially married Desdemona. The Duke calls Othello and sends him to fight in Cyprus where instead […]
Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles set in the Bronze Age at the dawn of day in the royal palace of Thebes. It is story of a driven young girl named Antigone who is determined to bury her recently deceased brother, Polynices, by defying the orders of the new king of Thebes’, Creon. . The definition of an Ancient Greek tragedy thought up by Aristotle explains that tragedy is “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete […]
The book, The Great Gatsby, is a historical fiction novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald which was published on April 10, 1925. This novel was set right after World War I and this period of time was called the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age, a time filled with dramatic social and political change. The 1920s was a time where women gained more rights, Americans had more money, and people were freer to do the things they wanted to do. […]
Titanic, was a film produced in 1997, based on the true story of the British luxury steamship that sank in the Atlantic Ocean on Apri15th, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during its voyage from Southampton, England to New York. Titanic is the most watched movie of all time and second in popularity across the world with over 900,000 votes (Most Watched Movies n.p.). Despites the lack of international funding during production, the Titanic was extremely popular with international audiences. […]
In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare presents the idea that love can conquer all, love can conquer anything if you truly believe it can. In Romeo and Juliet, the theme is proven in the way that Juliet almost dies trying to keep Romeo’ and Juliet’s marriage still a thing. Shakespeare proves the thought that love can conquer all in many ways, but is shown specifically in three main points including self-sacrifice, family issues, and the willingness to do something to […]
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses rhetoric, dramatic irony, and the characters of Cassius and Brutus to reveal with vivid strokes how idealism undermines our capacity to comprehend different outcomes and forces us down a path of societal distress. Idealism limits our capability to think and therefore lowers our potential as human beings. Shakespeare effectively shows this through conversations between Cassius and Brutus. Brutus is the embodiment of idealism because of his patriotism for Rome and his […]
Revenge is a theme seen throughout Hamlet. It is a major element that makes the story more intriguing. Fear drives people to behave irrationally and leads to madness, confusion, death, and most importantly revenge. Revenge isn’t a good way to handle situations because you’ll notice a lot of accidental things that happen and faulty actions. I’m going to focus on three main characters who are seeking revenge; Hamlet and Laertes. All wanting revenge for the death of their fathers. The […]
When taking into consideration the devastating results and impact that the creation and enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles imposed in history, this event must be directly regarded as a tragedy. Although, this treaty may be considered as a positive attempt to resolve controversial conflicts between nations by officially confirming the end of World War I. Ultimately, it was the development of the War Guilt Clause, the contradiction of the 14 points (proposed by the United States president Woodrow Wilson), […]
One solution that can be offered to prevent the overall tragedy of the commons, is to use “education” as a means to an end. Education is what allows for us to evolve our understanding of what is right and wrong. It helps us to establish our moral identity, and by establishing a universal environmental moral identity, we can avert the ongoing tragedies of the commons. There are many that may say that the most difficult challenge in using education as a […]
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is filled with death in every Act, excluding I and II, across the remaining 3 Acts there a total of 6 deaths. (Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris and Lady Capulet) William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, was published in 1597. None of the deaths in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet are similar, they all surround different issues and they all have a different impact on the not only the flow of […]
Antigone is a Greek Tragedy written by Sophicles. Etocles and Poyneices, two brothers, are fighting for the throne. Because of fight between the two brother, Creon becomes the new ruler of Thebes. Creon is also the brother of the form queen, Jocasta. Creon makes a decision that Polyneices will suffer the consequences and Eteocles will be honored. The body of Polyneices would be unburied. Ismene and Antigone are siblings of the Eteocles and Polyneices. In the beginning, Ismene is summoned […]
The world was forced into a nuclear age after the first detonation of nuclear bomb, named “Trinity.” Nuclear weapons have immense power that could wipe out humanity if ever taken into play. The Manhattan Project was the making of the first nuclear bombs during World War II, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer and were crazily expensive. The atomic bomb has a destructive power created by the fission of either uranium or plutonium. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was […]
William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of King Lear is a dark tale of betrayal whose popularity is seen in its many productions and adaptations. The play itself not completely original, in fact, as the main plot and characters are Shakespeare’s versions of the British cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth’s recounting of the story in History of the Kings of Britain. Shakespeare does, however, add other characters to his play that are not in Geoffrey’s version of the story, like Edmund and […]
Imagine, you were living in Greece a couple thousand years ago. The sights, smells, and the culture would be vibrant! But what if you were looking for some sort of entertainment, where would you go and what would you do? Seems like a no-brainer, right? You would go to Greek theatre of course! Although the Roman culture is often famously referred to when discussing ancient theatre, we may often forget the Greeks and their many contributions to modern theatre. This […]
Fate is inevitable, unavoidable, and ultimately ends in death. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, multiple characters experience a deadly fate, but it is not completely unavoidable. People also have control of their own lives and the ability to make decisions, affecting them and others. Shakespeare uses characters in this play to illustrate the theme of fate and to project how easily it can be tampered with. Fate, as a theme in this play, is involved in […]
This specifically suggests that the treaty of Versailles and the war guilt clause imposed numerous burdens on Germany and deprived it from ever being able to rise to power. This subsequently led to the development of numerous political parties that promoted national socialism such as the Nazis which ideology of racial hierarchy and Social Darwinism. These parties stood against accepting these unfair policies that just benefited the past Allied powers and were in fact imposed without Germany’s consent, as this […]
According to Aristotle, “Oedipus the King” was the perfect example of the perfect classical tragedy. Oedipus is of noble status, he is in every respect a king; noble in blood and in stature. Oedipus the King starts with Oedipus assuming his Kingship of the land of Thebes, thus confirming his noble stature even before the discovery of his origin. Not only is this kingship a title, but also a status he attained among his people. His people reconize him as […]
“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” This was said by Julius Caesar who later died due to his pride and honor devoted to himself and his city. Caesar is a powerful, well spoken and persuasive man in power. Brutus, on the other hand, is loyal, noble, and patriotic. Both characters love their city but show their pride in different ways. Unfortunately, Caesar was killed before being able to show his capability and what he could […]
Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar is really close to having total control by becoming the emperor of Rome. However, when he thinks he is so close to getting away with it, his so called friends (most of them are from the senate) decide to overthrow him, along with Caesar’s best friend, Marcus Brutus, who act as a leader of the conspirators. Though the fall of Caesar from an extremely powerful and respected man to a man […]
The scientific triumph of the United States creating the first atomic bomb induced a human tragedy when in August of 1945, President Harry Truman, who was seeking a quick end to the war, used the bomb on the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the world war and initiating the age of atomic weapons . The concept of the atomic structure of matter first emerged in the fifth century B.C with Greek theory of minute particles. Following the Renaissance in […]
William Shakespeare was the prince of Denmark who wrote the tragedy of Hamlet as one of his most popular tragedies where he found many religious references in his book, which included the protestant and catholic. According to his poetic of Hamlet from religious point of his analysis, which is biblical, he argued out that Hamlet is rich in material of many kinds, which reflected most aspects of religious circumstances in religious era. Dutton (260) argues that the pieces of religious […]
June 28, 1919 marked the end of World War 1, a four-year war. The Treaty of Versailles was signed between the Allies and the Central Powers. Did it really mark the end of a war? It might have been the cause of the next one. Therefore, the Treaty of Versailles is almost a perfect example of a triumph turned into a tragedy. World War 1 (1914-1918) was a war between Russia, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and Serbia against Austria-Hungary and […]
It all begun in Venice Italy, a place known of love and water. Othello was a general in Venetian army. He had secretly married Desdemona who was the daughter of a senator named Brabantio.roderigo was upset with this marriage and this made him hate the general. we then find Lago, another man who was very angry with the general and this time because the general had chosen some else by the name Cassio to be his lieutenant instead of him […]
