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Phaedra , is a play by Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca , which recounts the tale of of Phaedra, the queen of Athens, wife of Theseus, and her overwhelming lust for her stepson, Hippolytus. In the view of Greek Mythology and the tragedy Hippolytus by Greek dramatist Euripides , Seneca's Phaedra is one of several aesthetic explorations of this adverse story. Seneca portrays the appellation appearance as alive and absolute in the following of her stepson, while in added iterations of the allegory she is added of an acquiescent victim of fate. This Phaedra takes on the artful attributes and the acrimony generally assigned to the Nurse character. In this play, we find Hippolytus a very poor young man who spends most of his time hunting and sacrifices to Artemis , goddess of Chastity and Hunting. He is a devout disciple of the goddess Artemis. He has an intense aversion towards women. He does not want to pollute his mind with the thoughts of Love. He is a misogynist. He ...

The term 'hamartia' refers to the tragic flaw in the character of the protagonist which ultimately leads to his downfall. In Greek tragedy, the 'hamartia' can be described as a mistake in judgment defined by the actions of the protagonist , his emotional break down and also the cause of his twist of fate . It is a major theme of Sophocles’ tragedy "Oedipus Rex" . Most Greek tragedies feature a great man that suffers from a fatal flaw, to such an extent that he is destroyed. Oedipus is one such man, and his weakness, or hamartia , is his hubris, or great pride. Pride is enmity--it can be observed in those that see themselves as above others, and are easily angered by others challenging them. It was pride that caused Oedipus to unknowingly commit awful sin---killing his father, marrying his mother, and causing her to bear him children and siblings in one. Oedipus' pride is so great that it makes him furiously angry with others, enough to want t...

The word ‘satire’ is derived from  the Latin word ‘satira’ which is a literary attack on the follies and vices of an  individual or a society with a view to correcting them through laughter and ridicule written either in prose or verse. As Shakespeare is the poet of man, Alexander Pope is a poet of society.   The Rape of the Lock   is a social document because it mirrors satire, too. Pope paints about England in the 18 th   century. The whole panorama of the Rape the Lock revolves around the false standard of the 18 th   century. Pope satirizes the young boys, girls, aristocratic women and men, their free time, activities, nature of husbands and wives, the professionals. Pope clearly depicts the absurdities and the frivolities of the fashionable circle of 18 th   century England. The world of Belinda is a world of fashion or a trivial world. The whole life of Belinda is confined to sleeping, make- up, enjoyment and alluring the affection, malice, coq...

Romanticism is a movement of creative art specially in literature which was indeed a revolt of the individual against consensus of emotion against reason. Romanticism, initiated by the English poets such as   Samuel Taylor   Coleridge   and   William   Wordsworth , as well as   John Keats,   Percy Bysshe   Shelley, Lord Byron   was concentrated primarily in the creative expressions of literature and the arts.     "These writers championed the concepts of ignoring restraint, being free in emotion, embracing individuality and immersing oneself in nature, and they contributed to large-scale political and cultural shifts through their work. From a technical standpoint, they moved poetry into a more simplistic, symbolic and more free-form style." ( wisegeek ) Each of these men had a clearly identifiable voice that set them apart from each other, but they all captured the Romantic ideals of individuality, freedom, emotionality and s...

Characterization is the process by which a writer reveals the personality of the characters. It is an important element in almost every work of fiction or novel. In Tom Jones , Fielding has a very vast canvas on which he paints, with appreciable authority, a representative cross-section of the society of his age. According to Hudson, “Tom Jones is the greatest novel of the eighteenth century. In structure and in richness of characterization, Tom Jones stands unrivalled in the history of English fiction” .            In this novel, most of the characters represent the complete picture of the art of the English society of Fielding’s time. That is why Fielding is called the master of art of characterization.              In Tom Jones , Sophia Western and Squire Allworthy’s characters are rebels revolting against the respectably accepted domestic standards of the society. ...

"Classical elements refer to ancient beliefs inspired by natural observation of the phases of matter; with the classical elements: earth is equivalent to solid, water is equivalent to liquid, air is equivalent to gas and fire is equivalent to plasma. Historians trace the evolution of modern theory pertaining to the chemical elements, as well as chemical compounds and mixtures of natural substances to medieval, and Greek models”. (Wikipedia) "Ulysses" details Ulysses' intense dissatisfaction and boredom on his island home of Ithaca. The poem is a monologue spoken by him, where he not only expresses his discontent, but also describes his desire to keep sailing. He's getting older and doesn't have a lot of time left, so he wants to get busy living rather than busy dying. The poem concludes with his resolution to "strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." The poet begins projecting himself as "an idle king" analyzing th...