Troy Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Critical thinking

The interaction between the African Americans and the white Americans was sour from the moment these two groups met. The white considered the Blacks as inferior people. What would be the situation if the Black people wielded more power than the white people?

Open ended question

Considering the manner in which Troy is selfish, describe the possible future relations between him and his son and Gabriel his brother. Troy’s son will certainly mature up into a man. What will be the relationship between the two then?

Open Ended question

Troy’s attitude is defensive and selfish. He disapproves of his wife Rose playing the lottery ...

The experiences that people go through in life help shape their characters and actions. The behaviors that people exhibit cannot be looked at exclusively from an idealistic moral perspective. It is therefore important to look at an individual’s past situations before throwing a blanket judgment on them. This is the case with Troy Maxson in the play “Fences” written by August Wilson. An abstract look at his behavior would suggest that he is a selfish and egoistic man, yet a closer look at his life experiences suggests that more often than not, there was an underlying justification for ...

In the film version of Troy, as in the original Iliad, several characters are motivated mainly by their passions and lusts far more than reason and ethics, and as a result bring considerable death, destruction and suffering to all concerned. Both Plato and Aristotle would have been highly critical of this lack of ethics, and actions that they would have regarded as coming from the basest motives of lust, anger, revenge and other passions. Paris, the young prince of Troy, becomes infatuated with Helen, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, and runs off with her. This destroys the peace ...

Donovan’s charge is a play based on real life events of one New Yorker. A city employee, who also happens to work as life guard, counselor as he recalls the events in which he fights off an attacker and administer CPR until the arrival of the police. The drama series continues with the survivor finding himself on Rikers’s island, facing murder charges.
Fences is a play divided into two acts. The first act is comprised four scenes and the second act is made of five scenes. The play begins on a typical Friday, Bruno and Troy’s ...

Introduction

The fictional tales in world literature resources are found abundant in tales of various war heroes and heroines. Most of the renowned heroes appeared as protagonist of the fictional tales and mythologies, like Hercules, Achilles, Hector, etc. However, they all were at some point of adolescence as per the maturity patterns dominant in their era and their judgment was often flawed that led them to dangers and a subsequent creation of highly chivalrous tales.
On the contrary there were some other scenarios of an aristocratic display of heroism, where the heroes were found to attain a certain maturity level, as ...

Cassandra case

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a prophetess, whose predictions no one believed. Apollo who was in love with Cassandra, gave her free providence as a gift. However, since Cassandra refused to respond to Apollo in return, in revenge he made sure that her prophetic words were not taken seriously (Van Gunsteren, 2011). Another version of the myth tells that Cassandra along with her twin brother received the prophetic gift in childhood from the sacred serpent in the temple of Apollo. Cassandra first identified Paris, who appeared in the competition in Troy, and wanted to kill him in order to ...

Cassandra is a novel told about the survivors of the Trojan War. It is the story of a young woman named Cassandra, and her struggles during the post-war era. There are many different ways to analyze literature, but one of the leading literary analysts, Gerard Genette, has provided an extremely useful method for analyzing novels like Cassandra by Christa Wolf. Because Cassandra does not have a coherent or cohesive timeline, and rather jumps about in time with little warning, special types of literary analyses must be applied to the text to truly dig into the meaning of the multifaceted text.
Helen ...

NARRATOLOGY

Gerard Ganette was the great French literary theorist who is famous for his contribution in the field of narratology. His ‘Discours’ rightfully turned out to be a standard reference for the description of narrative theory due to the reason that it provides a model in relation to what systematic description, the writers can achieve. According to a preface of Gerard Ganette to the work of Kate Hamburger, with the title ‘The Logic of Literature’ that was published in the year 1986 in France,
“Fiction is not connected with narrative since one cannot study fictional narrative as narrative and as fiction at ...

This poem is written by a Greek Lyric poet named Sappho somewhere in the early 6th century. Most of her work was lost or is present in fragments. This lyrical song written by Sappho is known as the 16th fragment of Sappho or The Anactoria Poem, where Anactoria is her love and the poem is addressed to her.

Some of the fragments of the poem are provoking and the language is straightforwardly descriptive. For instance the phrases used in the poem, ‘thronging cavalry’, ‘sparkling glance’, ‘glittering armor’. The poem started with the philosophical content and at the end we find ...