Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great and the Tragedy of Karbala

This essay analyses Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine the Great and its intricate interweaving of historical events and cultural nuances.Focusing on the character of Tamburlaine,the essay explores themes of power,revenge,and divine justice within the context of the broader Shiite-Sunni conflict and the tragic history of Imam Al-Hussein.By examining Marlowe’s incorporation of historical accounts and creative narrative techniques,the essay highlights how the play provides insights into the complexities of human ambition,political manoeuvring,and the consequences of wielding authority.Ultimately,Tamburlaine the Great is shown to be a timeless exploration of the interplay between history,religion,and individual agency,inviting readers to reflect on the enduring relevance of its themes in both historical and contemporary contexts.

An Inevitable Tragedy—On Tess' s Fate in Tess of the D'Urbervilles

In the novel Tess of the D’urbervilles,Tess is successfully depicted.She is portrayed as a brave girl,hard-working,beautiful and innocent.Alec represents a brutal and destructive force,which triggers Tess’s tragedy.Angle’s inveterate old-fashioned prejudices made him relentlessly abandon Tess.Yet what Hardy tries to show is that the disintegration of rural economy in England brought about by the intrusion of capitalist relations as well as the hypocritical morality of the time are the obvious causes of Tess’s tragedy.Meanwhile,Hardy also attacks the injustice of the law.In the novel,he believes a woman is helpless in the hands of fate and Tess is trapped in the web of fate.Her tragedy is fated and inevitable.

An Interpretation of Mary's Tragedy from the Perspective of Interpersonal Ethics

The novel, The Grass is Singing, written by Doris Lessing, describes the tragic life of a white woman Mary living in South Africa. The article tries to explore the factors resulting in Mary's tragedy from the perspective of interpersonal ethics so as to reveal the suppression and distortion of traditional ethics over men's spirit and Lessing's humanistic feelings.

Social Conventions and Human Tragedy—On Richard Jefferies's The Acorn Gatherer

The Acorn Gatherer by Richard Jefferies is an allegorical tragedy, in which a nameless boy, born out of wedlock, is viewed as a sort of icon of sin, and is ultimately driven to death by the rigid and unforgiving social conventions.

On the Elements of Tragedy in The Scarlet Letter

As the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorn's writing, The Scarlet Letter not only brings him fame forever, but also gives us more about people's life in Puritan society in 17th. Since this novel is so important and excellent, the thesis mainly focuses on probing into the theme of elements of tragedy in The Scarlet Letter. According to the whole story, the love tragedy is attributed to four factors: the Puritan beliefs of original sin, the attitude of public on love outside marriage, the personalities of the main characters, and the differences between dream and reality.

Probe into the Internal Roots of Anna Karenina's Tragedy

Anna was a vivid literature figure in the international literature history. Besides the obvious social factors of Anna 's tragedy, some internal roots of her tragedy shouldn't be neglected, such as her particular spiritual world, merit and drawback of her character, her love value and conflicts about her thought. Analyzing into internal factors for Anna 's tragedy would offer further appreciation to readers.

The Pailure of a Black Hero in a White World——A Study of Othello's Tragedy

This article analyses the real cause of the tragedy of Othello. From the perspective of his social status, the article points out that the implication of his collapse into murderous violence is actually his constant worries about the threats to his social identity as a black hero in a white world.

Death of a Salesman: an Aristotelian Tragedy

Death of a Salesman is Arthur Miller's most famous tragedy and caused great repercussions in the East-West literary.Aristotle is an outstanding representative of the early Western literary theory, and his Poetics epitomizes his theory of tragedy and marked the beginning of western tragedy theory. Based on Aristotle's part theory of tragedy, a detailed analysis is made on the tragedy of Death of a Salesman.

Analysis on Scarlett's Love Tragedy——From the Perspectives of Her Personality

The outstanding female protagonist Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind is full of conflicting and complicated features, who is the daughter of a rich plantation owner. Based on the background of American Civil War, this novel depicts Scarlett's love tragedy with the clue of the triangular love between Scarlett, Ashley and Rhett.

Self-doubt and Social Dependence of Main Characters in An American Tragedy

Based on the description of an ordinary American young man—Clyde’s short life,An American Tragedy mingled many social aspects of modern American society together,which portrayed the money-oriented and indifferent American society.The analysis of the novel finds that the main characters shared some common traits,having both self-doubt and social dependence.They didn’t believe in their own ability but trusted the so-called social hierarchy;they didn’t count on their own efforts to be better off but depended on the society,on others and on fortune;they didn’t adhere to their own faiths but attached to others’opinions.It is clear through close studying that these characteristics resulted from American social system at that time,and the system made people mammonish,hidebound and indifferent.In this sense,the tragedy is not so much a tragedy of humanity as a tragedy of a society.

An Analysis of Catherine’s Tragedy at Wuthering Heights—from the Contradiction between“Id”and“Social Reality”

There exist discussions about the heroine's love tragedy in Wuthering Heights from time to time.Based on Freud's Id theory as the starting point,it serves as a new viewpoint of review focusing on the conflict between“Social Reality”and“Id”in the novel to analyse the causes of Catherine's love tragedy and criticize the devastation of humanity brought by the concept of“money first”and“family hierarchy”in the 19th century capitalist society.

An Analysis on the Causes of Clyde Griffiths' Tragedy in An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy is one of the most representative novels of Theodore Dreiser.The novel tells a story of Clyde Griffiths' corruption from an innocent boy into a murderer by pursuing pleasure and high status.This paper analyses Clyde's tragedy causes from the historic social environment and the weakness in his personality.The paper can be divided into four chapters.The first chapter is introduction;including the background and meaning of study.The second chapter is the plot of the novel and introduces the main characters.The chapter three analyses the main causes which results in protagonist's tragedy,including social factors,family factors as well as character factors.In the last chapter the writer makes a conclusion that Clyde's tragedy is both the tragedy of himself and the tragedy of bourgeoisie.He is also a victim under capitalist system.

The Tragedy of Tess

Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the masterpiece of English literature.Thomas Hardy,the author of this book,describes a tragedy of a peasant irl:Tess.This thesis tries to explore the causes of Tess's tragedy. Based on analysis, there comes the conclusion that the main reason is the sex discrimination in society.The solution to this unfortunate story is to achieve a real equal status between men and women.And this may finally rely on the social development and the improvement of human civilization.

Shylock's Tragedy in The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is one of the most contradictory plays of William Shakespeare.Through presenting and studying the tragedy nature of Shylock,this thesis attempts to illustrate the tragic nature of Merchant of Venice.In this paper the author tries to reveal the significance of its tragic nature through thorough analyzing.Shylock's tragedy is the tragedy of individual struggling,which shows in the aspects of family,money and religion.The profound reason for Shylock's tragedy is his Jewish identity.Therefore,the author of this paper is enlightened hereby,turning to a lot of books and data,and then analyzes the origins of Jewish prejudice from two aspects,society and history.Christianity has dominated the west,with its doctrine mainly derived from the New Testament.Meanwhile,Judaism derives its doctrine from the Old Testament.Therefore,the pious Christians will be misled by the contents of libeling Jews and the murdering of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.So a kind of instinctive hatred toward Jews is generated.This kind of tendency is rather clear in the play The Merchant of Venice.In this play,Shylock mentions several times that Antonio has insulted him physically and mentally in the Rialto.Almost all the characters in the play humiliate Shylock.But,he just endures all these insults quietly,and then looks for the chance to revenge.In the end,under the delicate trap set by the authority,Shylock loses again.He loses everything he could lose,both materially and mentally.Nothing is more frustrating than that.However,the author of this paper believes that it is worth paying attention to in the present day.In this paper,the author chooses this topic,presents and analyzes the tragedy of Shylock,and reveals the positive significance of the tragic nature of the play for our time.

A Tragedy of Human Beings,A Comedy of A Little Boy:Reflection of Social Conventions and Human Tragedy in Acorn-gatherer

Richard Jefferies presented one tragedy after another in a small and backward village in 19th England in his short story Acorn-gatherer.The paper explored the fundamental cause of those tragedies and drew a conclusion all those tragedies were the expression of human tragedy resulted from social conventions in the form of religion and the tragedy was actually a comedy for the little boy who was just the symbol of human tragedy in the story due to his special identity:an illegitimate child.

On Personal Reasons for Gatsby's Tragedy

The Great Gatsby is a tragedy of both Gatsby, an individual, and his generation. The times he is from is widely accepted as the cause of his tragedy. But he should also be blamed due to his idealism, and lack of moral sense. This paper tries to analyze the reasons of Gatsby's tragedy on his own part.

Social Conventions and Human Tragedy in the Acorn Gatherer

The Acorn-gatherer,written by Richard Jeffries gives a tragic picture of the country life in the late Victorian Age.Through the tragic life and death of the illegitimate child,Jeffries exposes the people's oppressions and misfortunes as the result of religious moralities and social conventions.The article is to expound the essence of the boy's human tragedy through religious origins,moral alienation,and distorted ethics in addition to the contrastive interpretation between his bitter situation and the sweet nature.

Analysis of Blanche's Tragedy Life in the Streetcar Named Desire

the Streetcar named Desire,written by Tennessee Williams,is a well-known play and of course wins a great honor for Tennessee Williams.Many critics gave it lot of attention and make many comments on the heroin’s tragedy life,according to the study of the predecessors,this paper will make an analysis of the causes of the heroin’s tragedy life.

Causes of Willy Loman's Tragedy in Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman,Arthur Miller's masterpiece,is regarded as one of the most important modern plays.This story is set in the first half of the 20th century in American history.This period witnessed the disillusion of the American dream,the belief that diligence and perseverance will be rewarded by economic prosperity and social stability.Therefore,the tragic end of Willy Loman is closely related to the social background at that time.Besides,Willy's personal weaknesses also contribute a lot to his tragedy.This pa-per aims to explore the causes of Willy Loman from the social and personal perspective.

Analysis on the Love Tragedy of Anna Karenina

My paper aims to investigate why and what lead to the love tragedy of Anna Karenina.Based on the understanding and analysis,the paper sums up the three major factors:social tragedy,religious ethics and psychological character tragedy,and idealized love tragedy.