Essays about: "human tragedy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words human tragedy.

  1. 1. Heathcliff’s Complex Character : Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Reader-response Theory to Understand Heathcliff

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    Author : Mohamed Ashmawi; [2024]
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    Abstract : Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, presents Heathcliff as a complicated character that makes it hard for readers to declare him a victim or a villain, hence leaving them with questions about his morality. This work looks deep into Heathcliff’s tough character by integrating the view of psychoanalysis with reader-response theory. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Voice of Nature : Ecological Personification in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name: An Ecolinguistic Analysis

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Zayna Halis; [2023]
    Keywords : Conceptual Metaphor Theory; ecolinguistics; ecological personification; ecosophy; ecological identities; eco-resistance; embodied metaphors;

    Abstract : This study delves into the ways in which the displaced Palestinian characters in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name (2008) connect to their homeland through embodied metaphors, particularly through the personification of their native lands, which will be read with recourse to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). By utilizing ecolinguistics as an analytical lens and applying CMT, this study illuminates how both literary works significantly underscore the urgency and cruciality of the human-nature interconnection and interdependence amid tragedy and dispossession. READ MORE

  3. 3. "And lo! Apollo Could Not Live Without Dionysus" A Nietzschean Study of the Apollonian and Dionysian in Donna Tartt's The Secret History

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Jessica Kafa; [2023]
    Keywords : Donna Tartt; The Secret History; Nietzsche; Apollonian; Dionysian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Previous research on Donna Tartt’s debut novel The Secret History in regards to its intertextual relevance has helped in understanding the traditional campus novel, as well as redefined the classical murder mystery. However, little research has been made on its characters and its portrayal of the human experience. READ MORE

  4. 4. Collective Genocidal Intent in Sri Lanka

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Maxwin Paul Rayen; [2023]
    Keywords : Genocide; Tamil; Sri Lanka; Humanitarian law; Human Rights Law; Genocidal Intent; Tamil Genocide; War; Non-International Armed Conflict; Justice; International Law; International Criminal Law; ICTR; ICTY; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The end of the Sri Lankan war was marked by a devastating loss of life, with hundreds of thousands of casualties. Amidst this tragedy, victims have claimed that the crimes committed against them constitute genocide, specifically targeting the Eelam Tamils solely because of their ethnic identity. READ MORE

  5. 5. Apollonian and Dionysian Psychology in The Age of Innocence : A Psychoanalytical Essay

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Isak Olsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Nietzsche; Freud; Wharton; Apollo; Dionysus; Psychology; Psychoanalysis; Literature;

    Abstract : The dichotomous concepts of order and chaos represented by the mythological Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus, as outlined by Friedrich Nietzsche in his controversial 1872 book on dramatic theory, The Birth of Tragedy, will in this essay serve as the primary literary concepts utilized in a psychoanalysis of the main character and his struggles in the American realist novel The Age of Innocence published in 1920. The social tragedy at the center of the novel written by the now canonical author Edith Wharton pits the protagonist, Newland Archer, against his own morality, in a battle between duty and passion, and conflicting personality traits. READ MORE