book report
book report
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
According to Friedrich Nietzsche, there are two kinds of people: those who are ‘in complete power of destiny' and those who are victims. As we discussed in class, Phaedre belongs to the second kind ...
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42.
by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
Being a part of a civilized world, Phaedre was suffering as she was confused by her opposite feelings to Hippolytus that led to neurosis. She felt aggressiveness, uneasiness, and a sense of guilt as a...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
The Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum is situated not far from the Griffith Park Zoo and is famous all over the world as a place of the history and mythology of the American West. When you enter the ...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
Thus, Hamlet wants to revenge for his father's death. He is intelligent enough to pretend to be mentally ill in order to find out more information about his uncle Claudius. However, Hamlet is not able...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
A tragedy is ‘a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror' (...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
In the book ‘Greek Tragedy' Bernhard Zimmermann points out that the achievement of the tragic playwright such as Euripides was measured ‘by the manner in which he elaborated the traditional framew...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
The sun is closely connected with sacrifice (Bataile 69). As we discussed in class, sacrifice is the act of something sacred, it is the change of an object from one stage of life to another. The great...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
People often hide their real feelings under a ‘mask', which they do not want to reveal. According to Nietzsche everyone needs a mask and Phaedre is not an exception. At the beginning of the play she...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
However, there exist another point of view and according to Barthes, ‘the Racinian Eros ...is never sublimated; emerging fully armed, entirely finished, from pure vision, it is immobilized in the pe...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
The article analyzes the classical views of passion in "Phaedre", where the major character, Phaedre, feels love and passion to Hippolytus. Consequently, she is the ‘object of observation' in this a...