Essays on Tragedy

Billy Wilder’s ‘Double Indemnity’ is often recognized to be one of the classics, boldly portraying themes of film noir along with slight undertones of the genre of tragedy. But aside from the rather well documented features of ‘fatalism’ and ‘pessimism’ that are brought through in…

Justice today is often synonymous with the system of courts and trial by jury adopted byour society; however, justice had long been described through the idea of an eye for an eye before the development of western justice. Aeschylus’ Oresteia s hows the transformation from…

This essay by Miller was interesting to say the least. He makes multiple good points about how an ordinary man can relate to those kings or people of higher standards when it comes to starring in a tragedy. I personally agree with his idea, this…

Sophocles’ Antigone (c.441 B.C. E) is a play from the time when power was the truth. It was the time when people’s voices were either bought by wealth or suppressed by power. Although government nowadays are completely different, it is still hard to change what…

What could conceivably prompt a person that is devoted to their partner to flare up and come to be so enraged that he is propelled to murder her? Othello’s experience within the play The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, written by William Shakespeare,…

Ebola, a deadly illness that somehow has been addressed to within the United States, is still causing deaths and tragedy within the Democratic Republic of Congo. The article “Why DR Congo is confident it will halt Ebola” by Anne Soy discusses how despite the 22…

Tragedy and Triumph As people face all types of problems in life, Thomas Paine has once stated, “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph,” This relates to everyday life, as it expresses that the more effort you put into something, the more special…

I believe that Oedipus the king was initially in denial regarding the heinous crimes he was accused of committing. He was too vain, as he had vanquished the sphinx monster by solving the riddle and he was appointed as the new king of Thebes. He…

In the Shakespearean play, “Macbeth,” the witches influence on how Macbeth made his decisions played a crucial part in contributing to his eventual destruction. The witches were trying to create chaos by prophesying to Macbeth in order to get him to act. They planted the…

The play ‘Macbeth’ is a portrait of one man, an ambitious, ruthless, disturbing individual.The play shows how he evolves as a person. Although we are presented with his declination from good to evil, we can see his human side throughout the play, which makes it…