"Medea" is a good play to study for its themes, as its structure makes them easily visible and definable. ... The fact that Euripides was very ahead of his time accounts for this, but all of the basic elements of the play are still current in many ways, which makes it an interesting piece of drama to study, and is why it should still be performed....
In tragedy drama this word means a personal error in a protagonist's personality that brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy. ... It focuses to analyze the effect of hamartia of the main character of the series, Perseus 'Percy' Jackson, towards the development of the story by using Objective approach. 1.4 Scope of the Study In accordance with objective of the study, the scope of the study covers the hamartia of the main character and its connection and significance towards the plot of the series. ... Previous studies which deal with hamartia also found in the library...
Aeschylus, father of tragic drama Aeschylus is the earliest of the three great Greek tragic dramatists (the others are Sophocles and Euripides). ... Aeschylus enriched the drama with his technical innovations. ... His influence toward creating a more realistic drama was powerful. ... Thucydides believed that studying events of the past could help men understand similar events in the future and perhaps avoid similar mistakes. ...
Sigmund Freud, an American scholar who put both theories in the field of psychology, is credited with key turning points in his field when he revolutionized the field of psychoanalysis. Many of his theories became major ideas within literary criticisms. Freud read Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and it immed...
