Essays on Theater

Abstract

In this report we will discuss certain key aspects of the theatre representation of “Macbeth” which is considered to be one of the most acclaimed tragedies of all times (Macbeth: Critical Essays | Macbeth on the Stage | CliffsNotes).

Thesis Statement: This paper includes two major features of drama, namely the portrayal of ‘tone’ and the depiction of visual imagery pertaining to a particular scene. We have taken the reference of Act 1 Scene 5 from the play “Macbeth” in order to discuss the aforementioned key aspects of drama.

In the world of theatre, the physical presence of an actor ...

Daniel Day Lewis in the Last of the Mohicans, is pointed to as one of the great method actors of our time. He totally immersed himself in the role actually killing and skinning his own food, learning the crafts of the Mohican tribe, and carrying a rifle with him everywhere during the shoot. Before the filming ever began he lived for six months in the woods and continued to do so throughout the shoot. By believing he was the character he was portraying, he convinced the audience as well as his co-stars who also gave more realistic and believable ...

Each genre of literature have its own inimitable flavor. All literature leaves an indispensable portrait on reader’s mind that fashions mesmerizing circle of euphoria that knows no bound.Dramas sometimes are very personal; depicting very close view of the character. While reading it; you can immensely feel the sorrows, happiness and all emotions of that character.

When it inculcates more shades of the story and unfolds all the chapters; it becomes truly astonishing. Fiction stories are real page turners when they lead you to the edge and take you to a voyage with the pinches of suspense, thrill, romance ...

Gender equality is significant in every field especially the modern days unlike aerial where on male gender that was vied as the superb gender in everything they do.One find that the female gender are thriving on any given field and to some extent they are even doing grate in some of these field than even their counter parts from the male gender. Similarly the in the construction of cinemas or the in the field of film the female gender is no longer left behind. Research on field of film acting has come to agreed with one of the essay ...

Introduction

Gender disparity stands as among the most debilitating social issues every nation has experienced. As a problem deeply ingrained in societal and cultural ties, gender disparity provides key implications to international development policies, programmes and projects. Although roles within different societies assigned per gender may appear as a natural way of life, it is nevertheless correct to assert as well that gender-based oppression is also apparent. Therefore, this study seeks to address gender awareness in light of its implications to the concept of fulfilling international development agendas. Without the promotion of gender awareness, international development agendas would not fully ...

Vertigo is a brilliant piece of work that presents psychoanalytic issue in an efficient manner. Vertigo is a psychological thriller directed by A. Hitchcock. The movie was premiered during sixties and praised by the audience. The director utilized all film elements in a manner to create an impression on the minds of audience. All filmic elements such as sound, color, music makes the movie very remarkable. This paper presents a detailed analysis of movie Vertigo, and how director illustrated psychoanalytical issue in an impressive manner. Vertigo has great influence of 1920’s art and movies that emphasize on imagination ...

Many creatures depend on reasoning because it goes hand in hand with the ability to survive. The author argues that creatures use these skills to conclude events on a certain way based on other evidence, or infer information based on experience. It helps them adapt and stay alive on earth. Basic reasoning and imagining, when applied to humans, is referred to as common sense. People usually fail to act with the direction of their common sense. For example, bank robbers may think that they can ...

In many ways, the play is a tragedy that centers on the problems of the Loman family. Wiily Loman, the protagonist, is the misguided character person, who sets out to achieve the goals that he thinks is the right for himself and his family. It is ironic that his dreams and goals of having a better life for himself and his family are responsible for the pain and distress to everyone. In Death of a Salesman, the protagonist, Willy, is different from the traditional tragic hero, but he possesses the fatal flaw of all tragic heroes. The true tragedy ...

Introduction to Film

There are various different types of actors or performing artists in the world of industry and they are categorized according to the roles they play or portray on stage, television shows, on commercials, and in movies. The five types of actors are impersonators, personality, star, wild card, and character. Impersonators are someone who imitates the actions or behavior of another person, actors, or celebrities. Personality actors play unusual roles and as he in many instances, they are better suited and successful in soap operas and sitcoms. Stars or movie stars can perform much whatever they want, ...

President John F Kennedy has remained a legend for various reasons. First and foremost his assassination after just three years into his Presidency created that aura of invincibility about him apart from the ‘what might have been’ mantra which continues to prevail up to this day. Although his assassination was obviously crucial in creating a demi God out of him, one has to consider the fact that Kennedy was already a hugely popular President and had built up considerable political capital ever since his election in 1960. The closeness of that election is forgotten by many since there were ...

Introduction

This discussion focuses on graphical representation of surgical operations in the 19th and 21st Century and how surgery has evolved in years.

Eakins’ paintings depict the doctor getting assistance from Penn professors. This emphasizes on how doctors, nurses and physicians work together during surgery. This is also demonstrated in a 21st century media image.

In both clinics, the doctors are seen to be carrying conservative operations as opposed to the amputations they performed in earlier decades. We see the surgery being carried out in a cleaner, brighter, surgical theater. In comparison, there seems to be advancement in understanding the ...

In recent debate, there have been questions raised as to whether the juvenile justice system is too lenient, allowing juvenile offenders to repeat grave criminal offenses and get away with them, citing little to no parental guidance. Some individuals, and institutions alike, have been advocating for the instituting of dramatic measures such as the revocation of parental rights, removal of children from the home, and even forced sterilization of parents convicted of felony abuse or neglect. However, I do not believe such measures would work to mitigate and/or eradicate cases of juvenile delinquency.

While dramatic and stringent measures may ...

Traditionally, women's role in society has always been a silenced voice, which comes across through their depictions in paintings. The passive female image with the conventional Venus pose is ubiquitous with the classical representation of feminism. The perception of feminism in the 19th century was expressed and can be elucidated through the medium of artwork, noting the daring advances that occurred in art that both inspired and represented the increased progressiveness that feminism was experiencing. Mary Cassatt's "Women in Black at the Opera" explores the emancipation of feminism, through her painting style and all aspects of female appearances and ...

In Bettig and Hall’s article “Ad Creep: The Commercialization of Culture,” the authors discuss the phenomenon of “ad creep,” which is described as “the gradual expansion of advertising into nontraditional spaces such as public playgrounds, school buses, sidewalks, and beaches” (193). In essence, as advertisements become more and more recognizable and rejected by the public, marketers and advertisers must find new ways to incorporate their advertisements into everyday life. As a result, instead of having separate avenues for delivering advertisements (like a commercial in between programmed television), they use strategies like ‘product placement,’ wherein mention is made by ...

Question 16

Dear Kales, I guess you are aware of what took place in Mr. Wrights household. Minnie is apprehended for being among the suspects of Wright's murder. Why, I doubt this should be the situation! It was yesterday that I and Mrs. Peters went to the house for some things that Mrs. Wright wanted. You will be shocked of what was discovered! My husband, county attorney and sheriff accompanied us. Lewis explained when he discovered Wright's death. All of them looked for evidence around the house, but we stayed with Mrs. Peters in the kitchen. It is the kitchen where ...

Tim advertised that he was selling his Porch Short Boxer car in the newspaper to which the rogue later responded by visiting him. The advertisement by Tim is merely an invitation to treat which essentially paves the way for submission of offers to which Tim is free to accept or reject. This was the case in Partridge v Crittenden where Lord Parker CJ made a comment to the effect that if an advertisement were to be regarded as an offer, advertisers would be faced with a situation where they are under an obligation to sell the advertised goods to ...

Summary of chapter 10

Designing the characters’ world

This article talks about how to design the set of a good piece. It states that a set design that is good should be aesthetically pleasing, interesting, evocative, functional, and to be connected deeply with the concept of production. This is achieved through the following explained below

Goals of set design

Facilitate dramatic action- set design should: create space for physical action, tell us the location of the action either outdoors or indoors, and time periods of the action. Offers a surrounding that represents the lives of the characters- the set should relay information about the people who dwell ...

Introduction

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a prominent American playwright who was born in 1930 in Chicago and died at the age of 34 in New York City. She was also a renowned stage director and civil rights activist. As a Black-American woman growing up during the depression, her life was characterized by the negatives that accompany slavery and gender discrimination. However, it was this same restricting environment that shaped her writing career because she was able to capture the struggles and conflicts within black families in her works. Her most prominent work of literature is A Raisin ...

Communication between various actors in any given screen setting is one of the most essential aspects to consider, for the audience’s sake, especially, due to the fact that effectiveness in communication and delivery is the main tenet that contributes toward effective progression of the scene. This is one of the aspects that Carter Bays and Craig Thomas put into consideration while writing the script for the comedy-drama “How I Met your Mother”. At the same time, considering that this is a drama-series, communication is one of the most essential things for the ...

Statement of the Problem. This study features a problem revolving around the lack of access to public information in the City Hall of Manila, Republic of the Philippines. Such is a potential catalyst of corrupt practices, which leads to human rights violations. The absence of a law enabling the public to access information on public concerns serves as the main reason for said problem, despite the existence of a relevant express provision in the 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines.

History of the Problem. The Republic of the Philippines ...

All art is political. Whether it is a deep, poignant drama or a flighty, effervescent musical, the performing arts in particular, including theater, has a uniquely political and socially vital point of view. There is something to be said for even the most lightly entertaining fluff piece, but even those can have very strong political overtones. Theater, to me, is a vehicle for conveying themes and subtext through the vitality of a live performed work; in a good work, all elements of a production must come together perfectly to provide substance about our lives and the world around us. ...

Theatre offers a platform of expression which is thought-provoking and flexible. This makes it possible for audiences to empathize with each other and with the performers regardless of pre-existing cultural differences. In the words of Soyini Madison, a performance studies scholar, “performance becomes the vehicle by which we travel to the worlds of subjects and enter dialogue with one another.” I have found several instances in movies, comedy shows, songs, dances, recitations and dramas where different directors bend the actors’ actions to very divergent wills. Theatrical acts enable individuals to travel from self to others regardless of the cultural ...

Mr Bean has been a popular comedic character for a number of decades now and has succeeded in making millions of people laugh. The fundamental reason behind Mr Bean’s humour is that he is a child in a man’s body and consistently fails to get it right under a number of social situations. In this clip, we see Mr Bean attending a wedding: a solemn and traditional affair during which Mr Bean attempts to fit in and celebrate with the happy couple, but manages to get it entirely wrong. The actor ...

Art is any reflex ion or production prefabricated by humans in a visible mold for communicative or aesthetical purposes expressing ideas emotions or in general worldview. It is cross-examined throughout time classifying cultures, establishing per iodization and observing the distinctive and influence of art. The various forms of arts include visual, musical, theatrical and literary all from different time period.

Chanted art is a write of art whose substance is articulate and silence. It can be classified as performing and fine arts. Music was an eminent portion of the social and cultural life in ancient Greece. Ancient Egyptians accredited ...

In order to do a trip to New York, I and a group of my friends had to plan it in advance and calculate time and costs of stay there. First of all, in order to see four performances on Broadway, it would take us a week of time to stay in New York. The roundtrip flight tickets would be around $270 per person. Potential accommodation would have to be quite far from the city centre and Manhattan in order to save some money. One of the potential options might be Sun Bright Hotel in Chinatown, which would cost $ ...

Later in October, I plan on visiting New York with a group of four friends in order to see four Broadway shows; we have never seen professional New York theater performed before, and so we thought it best to go there and see what the city has to offer. Our proposed budget is approximately $9800 for five people; $4000 for air fare and accommodations, $4500 for show tickets and $300 for food and cab fare while we are in New York. We would leave October 19 and return October 23, booking a flight plan to New York and back ...

Part I:

Interpersonal sensitivity is much more stereotypically present in women than in men; in essence, they are able to remember people's appearances much more than men do. This particular cognitive ability deals primarily with how accurate or appropriate our perceptions of others are; with respect to this difference between men and woman, discerning people's appearances is where this ability is most centered in this discussion. In modern culture, women are culturally conditioned to care more about appearance, as they are expected to keep up their own appearances in order to attract men. Furthermore, social expectations of female competitiveness ...

Ang Lee's 2007 political romantic drama Lust, Caution is a beautiful, contemplative and breathtakingly tragic story about an undercover resistance fighter in World War II-era China, who begins to form a relationship with the man she is meant to kill - a collaborator with the Japanese. By presenting a hauntingly beautiful and poetic tale of a woman torn between who she is and who she is pretending to be, with tremendous stakes in the balance, Lee's film explores the ideas of performance and identity as a means to demonstrate her nationalism. Wong's character is presented as an actor, first ...

Othello, a play written by William Shakespeare begins in Venice, a powerful center of banking and commercial activities and also known for its military prowess. The plot of the play revolves around Othello, a black Moor who is also an army general, Iago, his aide, Desdemona, his wife and Cassio who became his lieutenant. After Othello marries Desdemona, her father is opposed to it and takes the matter to the Duke. It is ruled that what Othello did was wrong and he is sent to war as a result. His wife accompanies him to Cyprus as well as Cassio ...

The port actors, terminal operators, public port authorities, carriers and other service providers in supply chain want to achieve strategic goals such as dominance, integration and insertion. These goals are interrelated and mutually strengthening. Port actors insert themselves in supply chains since this provides them with critical resources such as knowledge, technology, capital, markets and expertise. Another goal is the integration of activities in the port so as to lower transaction costs and provide services efficiently and effectively. Dominance is also another strategic goal applied by port actors. They seek to achieve scarce competency, exploit economies of scale or ...

Leaping Lizard is newly established company that operates in the beverage industry. Recently, it introduced into the market leaping lizard drink. With the company’s strong mission, which is to offer clients with every day solution to their endeavors and at the same time provide them with energy. The energy drink has a capability motivating individuals who work early in the morning and late at night (Hardy, 2010). Major industry beverage competitors include red bull and monster. This paper is therefore devoted to the financial and marketing objectives of Leaping Lizard. Besides, it highlights the company’s marketing strategies.

Leaping Lizard ...

(a) The price in the market for this perfectly competitive from when p1, the firm would desire to sell over a hundred units. This is because the prices of single units would have gone down. The firm would sell more units with a tiny profit margin on each unit to make profits. The firm will then sell more units so that it can accumulate more profits and be able to stay in the business. Economically, the firm would not be making tangible profits because the margin on each unit is very small. If the firm does not have ...

Background

Taiwan has a magnificent movie industry. The movie industry in Taiwan is filled with talented actors, singers, dancers, and even personalities who excel in all of these three fields. The movies that will be reviewed for this paper are the movies “Invitation Only” and “Comedy Makes You Cry”. Both movies were filmed in Taiwan and the actors and actresses who filled the roles of the movie characters were either Taiwanese or of Taiwanese origins.

Narrative Strategies

This movie was one of the blockbuster hits about 3 years ago. “Invitation Only” was considered to be a movie under three ...

Scenarios are informal narrative descriptions, which are used to describe human tasks or activities that allow for the discussion and exploration of requirements, needs, and contexts (Rogers et al., 2007). They do not provide an explicit description of the way that a technological support or a software application is used to complete a task. However, they make use of the stories told by users, which describe the tasks that they need to ...

1. Monteverdi and other musician were treated as performers to the wealthy families at that time. For the case of Monteverdi, he used to perform for the members of Gonzaga family who lived in Mantua area. The families were opera mania, so they had to hire performers for them.

2. Historians recognize Monteverdi as a composer who performed the first work of mastermind in the timeline of opera. Coincidentally, L’Orfeo, performed around February 1607, was Monteverdi’s first piece of work, which shows the dawn of the Baroque Period in Music. The piece of work offers an affluent ...

Venn diagram provides a method for solving logic diagrams for complex mathematical problems. Venn diagrams are useful in visualization of mathematical problems that involve classification or belonging to a group (Johnson & Mowry, 2008). They help in finding intersection of set and unions of sets. For example, John and Joel owns 20 companies, if john owns 8 companies and Joel owns 5 companies, while they own the rest jointly. This can be represented in a Venn diagram as below.

The intersection of the Venn diagram shows that they jointly own 7 companies. Moreover, improves understanding of the problem, and it ...

You Can’t Take It With You by George Kaufman and Moses Hart is a comedic play that shows how people have shallow understanding of life and how these people hold primitive thoughts about the actuality of life. It is also a play that seeks to make take life as it is and enjoy it when they still can. The play offers descriptive and episodic events inform of dialogue. While the story triggers philosophical thoughts about life ...

Our Town is a play that has three acts and it was first produced in 1938. The play was written by an American playwright Thornton Wilder. The play surveys the lives of people who live in a small American town. It is divided into three parts that explains human experience. The play exposes an American family’s close and routine lives by beginning with the routines and necessities of daily life. The two families in the play are; Gibbs family, that is, Dr. Gibbs, Mrs. Gibbs, George their son, Rebecca who is a sister to George. The second family ...

Introduction The movies, Beowulf and The 13th Warrior had their setting in the ancient days where technology was not yet established. They were the times of swords, arrows and bows. Both movies have got characters that are not somewhat fully human. Like in Beowulf, there is a monstrous creature called Grendel while in the 13th Warrior, the antagonists are half men and half bear. This personality of being is what stimulates these two films. Both represent wars between the ordinary man and a creature that is definitely much stronger. However in both films, despite the, despite the physical advantage, ...

Othello

What is honor and how is one supposed to restore it when it is jeopardized? Should one place one’s honor (or whatever he or she considers to be his honor – reputation, pride or suchlike) above all the other interests? The will to restore one’s honor is a praiseworthy feature, but too often it becomes a weak spot for people who consider it to be the most important aspect of their lives. Very often we can see people, striving to keep or restore their reputation, or not willing to let anything that shows them in ...

Seven months ago a tragedy shocked the whole world: Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in plane crash. Each and every person all over the world was shocked, let alone citizens of Poland, who admitted that that very tragedy was the most tragic event after WWII.

The article in the BBC newspaper sheds light on the event: 14 April 2010 the plane with Lech Kaczynski with Poland's army chief, central bank governor, MPs and leading historians and other passengers were flying from Warsaw to Smolensk to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre ...

The United States military expeditions in Iraq began in high gear. The military operations quickly brought down Sadam Hussein’s reign. un- able to counter the power of the, United States of America combatants the Iraq soldiers resorted to, counterrisurgency operations, often staged on complex urban terrain. The change in venue and operational tempo left U.s Troops, in their lightly armored vehicles exposed to road side attacks from improvised explosive devices. Michael J. Sullivan (2009:56-67) The American Department of Defense responded, with a $25 billion dollar plan, to ...

Use of Common Property to address the Commons Problem

Introduction The use of common property to address the problem of common people refers to the tragedy of the commons. Most of the work on environment cuts across the pro-regulatory traditional protectionist laws and policies. According to Acheson, the tragedy of commons does not hold correctly to the future of all the available resources. Private owners instead of the general deserving public use the resources. Acheson reviews several classic examples of managing environmental resources in his essay. There are some institutional regimes, which have been in operation for a long period without degrading the available resources. In addition, Acheson ...

The Iroquois Theatre was located on the Northern side, between the Dearborn Street and State Street in Chicago. The theatre attracted many women who went to Chicago for day trips because they thought the theatre was safe. The safety of the theatre was guaranteed because it was located close to the Loop shopping district that was patrolled by police. Upon opening of the Iroquois Theatre, drama critics lauded the theatre terming it as the most beautiful theatre in Chicago. The Iroquois Theatre fire occurred at about 3:15 P.M, on 30th December 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. After the fire, 605 ...

“Don Quixote,” is a popular dance that excites people and brings happiness to sad souls. I find it quite interesting because it coordinates dances from a diversity of places and backgrounds. The dance takes place in a series of days and most of the time the audience comes out of the auditorium with jubilation and excitement. The dance is always successful because of the intense preparations by the gifted and well-experienced managers, choreographers, artistic directors, and artists. When all these people work in harmony, the audience feels the magnitude and the quality of the work produced. Looking at the ...

French comedy, like comedy of any specific region, has a wide range of subjects and styles from which to draw – some comedies rely more on the physical and slapstick, while others relate more to character-based humor and the everyday absurdity of human interaction. Two French comedies from the 90s and early 2000s encapsulate this divide quite well – 1993’s Les Visiteurs and 2000’s Le Gout des Autres (The Taste of Others). Visiteurs is a goofy, fantastical fish-out-of-water story about a knight and his squire (played by Jean Reno and co-writer Christian Clavier), who find themselves transported from 1123 ...

History of the Fitzgerald

The Fitzgerald Theatre in St Paul Minnesota is the oldest theatre in the city. It was built in 1910, and originally called the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, and one of the four theatres erected by the than media magnates Lee Shubert and his brother J.J Shubert after the demise of their brother Sam. The theater was thus named after their late brother, in his honor (Minnesota P.R, par 2). The architecture of the theatre was modeled after the famous Maxine Elliot theatre in New York, thus making it particularly beautiful building then. The architects for the theatre, ‘Marshall and ...

Summary

The article considers the achievements of Jean Vilar and the popularity of his Théâtre National Populaire (T.N.P.) between the years 1951 to 1963. At the introductory part of the article the author considers the innovations that Vilar introduced in the T. N. P. And which subsequently influenced changes in other theatres in France. Fleury notes that in a bid to encourage the public to be loyal, Vilar used two approaches these approaches were: (i) reaching out to the public and, (ii) establishing mutual loyalty between the theatrical institution and the theatre goers. Accordingly, Fleury goes ahead to explain ...

The play I saw was “The Producers.” I saw it at Saginaw Valley State University. I saw it on April 11, 2014. The play was inspiring and as close to the original Broadway production as I could have hoped for at a university showing. The actors went off the original script; the playwright for “The Producers” is Mel Brooks. The play is also a musical, which contained the original composition done by Mel Brooks, as well. As it turns out, Mel Brooks was also the lyricist of the play. The play was written in 1968 and is representational and ...

In Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case,” the titular character has no shortage of problems – his middle-class malaise, his dissatisfaction with life as it is, and the frustration of the ideals of art not matching the mundane nature of his existence. However, one implicit, unspoken frustration he has is Paul’s sexuality, which is either latent or difficult to openly express in his life: “Central to the full experience of the story is recognition of the fact of Paul’s homosexuality, a ‘fact’ that is nowhere stated openly” (Summers 108). Combined with the aforementioned issues, it is ...

Introduction

Giacomo Puccini was composer of Italian operas. He was born in a place called Lucca, Italy in 1858, and his parents had a long music history. When his father died when he was still 5 years old, his uncle Fortunato Magi took him to study because he considered him undisciplined and poor student. Afterwards, he became organist in the church, but he was inspired by Verdi’s Aida to be a composer of opera. The major operas by Puccini include Manon Lescaut (produced first in Turin – 1893), La Boheme (Turin-1896), Tosca (Rome-1900), Madame Butterfly (La Scala-1904), La faciulla del ...

And Chan-Wook Park

Given the increasing globalization of the film industry, Hollywood directors have begun to pull increasingly from international sources for their creative output. Looking into the small-but-potent international film markets, often directors from other countries are given the opportunity to cross-over into Hollywood. This is certainly the case with Asian cinema; many Asian film directors who have achieved success in Japan and Hong Kong have been given the chance to make films in America in order to provide a rapidly-consuming film market with the variety and quality it desires. In the 1980s and 1990s, two Asian directors in particular crossed ...

Analysis of the Film “The Best Years of Our Lives” Using Stuart Hall’s Reception Theory

The film, The Best Years of Our Lives highlights cultural artifacts for the establishment of the social identity in the transnational society. One may face serious challenges in establishing and maintaining a social identity in a transnational community. This is evident in The Best Years of Our Lives, as the film shows that most characters are experiencing difficulties in regaining their social identity after World War II. The film casts some extraordinary and complex situations that characterize civilians as they struggle to establish their identity (Jameson 36). The film wishes to offer closure and catharsis; however, the myth assumed ...

Oedipus Rex, written by the Greek playwright Sophocles, tells the story of the titular King Oedipus, who reaches the status of King of Thebes only to become embroiled in an investigation into the murder of the previous king, Laius. Over the course of the play, he is informed of a prophecy in which he is said to kill his father and marry his mother; despite the inevitable nature of this prophecy, Oedipus refuses to believe it. However, once he is told that he was the one who killed King Laius unknowingly in a raid some time ago, he learns ...

One of the most fascinating and unique aspects of French films is their essential “Frenchness” – the way in which the plot, characters and storytelling evince particular aspects of French culture. Many times, French films find their appeal in being uniquely ‘French,’ having meanings that are of particular importance to the French people. In spite of this, many important and popular French films carry with them a universality of meaning that spans cultures. In the case of the French films La Grande Vadrouille and La Cage Aux Folles, the setting of the story within French culture and locations allows the ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”. He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique for ...

The Tragedy of the Commons is an article authored by Garret Hardin in 1968. In this article, Hardin presents a sensational and compelling formulation of the human population problem. He poses the problems of population in very stark terms. He first examines the relationship between the human population and the available resources and makes a conclusion that there is a need for the population to be effectively controlled. He then engages in a comprehensive discussion of the reasons that have led to the observed swelling of the current population. Hardin then uses this analysis to propose plausible solutions. Hardin’ ...

Theater is one of the most ancient forms of art. The beginning of Western civilization, ancient Greece, lived a very important part in the development of this form, with many plays reaching classical status, like Oedipus King and the Oresteia trilogy. Aristotle, one of the most important Greek philosophers, offered six elements of drama in his work Poetics: setting, characters, theme, plot, language and music. These have served as a reference to study these types of works of art from antiquity to this day. The first three will serve as a guide for the analysis and comparison of important ...

If somebody had asked me what makes a film successful, I would have been not able to answer at once. Acting, directing, screenplay, soundtrack, costumes, settings, camera operating, and a great many of other factors are equally valuable; they all contribute to the general perception of the film by the auditory. In my essay I will focus on one element of the system – music; and I will try to discover how that magnificent tool makes a film admired. Anabel J. Cohen in his Music as a source of emotion in film states that “emotion characterizes the experience of film, ...

Many philosophers have come up with different definitions of tragedy. However, the definition by Aristotle remains the most comprehensive definition of the term. In his definition, Aristotle lays major emphasis on the terms pity and fear. According to him, these are the two main elements of tragedy. Absence of them means there is no tragedy. In plain words, Aristotle’s definition of tragedy was: “Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of ...