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Greek Tragedies - Essay

Greek Tragedies

In consideration of the plays we discussed in class, the dramatic contents of each play reflect and develop a category of it's own. Some that deal with comedies, morality, and other's with, tragedies, whichever the case maybe each play has its unique style and theme. A Midsummer Night's Dream I believe is unusual among Shakespeare's plays, since it is lacking a written source for its plot. The wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta was described in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and elsewhere. The theme of a daughter who wants to marry against her father's desires was a common theme in Roman comedy. Nick Bottom and his friends are comic's of amateur players. Shakespeare must have derived his forest ...

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directly along with the metaphor "life is a precious possession." If you have many rituals, you must "invest" them wisely and use them as you should use material goods, in a charitable way. In the late 15th century English morality play, Everyman, is summoned by Death, he cannot persuade any of his friends to go with him, except for Good Deeds. Death demands the account book from Everyman and tells him to prepare for his death, and as he does he loses all of his companions. At the end of the play Knowledge hears the Angels sing and welcomes him in, and also hears the Doctor recounting the Moral Everyman. In an important way, the play Everyman demonstrates the ways in which a person who does have good traits wastes them. According to the play's tale, the kind of forces we use in everyday human life can cause every person to waste good moral sense, and take advantage of it.
I believe the dramatic structure within each of the two plays follow a general theme. In the first ...

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Added: 8/3/2004 07:34:27 PM
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