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Estee
3/10/2015 03:36:26 pm
Prompt: 2003 According to critic Northrop Frye, “Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightning.” Select a novel or play in which a tragic figure functions as an instrument of the suffering of others. Then write an essay in which you explain how the suffering brought upon others by that figure contributes to the tragic vision of the work as a whole.
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Davina
3/11/2015 12:27:27 pm
One definition of madness is “mental delusion or the eccentric behavior arising from it “But Emily Dickinson wrote Much madness is divinest sense—to a discerning eye—Novelists and playwrights have often seen madness with a “discerning eye” Select a novel or play in which a character’s apparent madness or irrational behavior plays an important role. Then write a well-organized essay in which you explain what this delusion or eccentric behavior consists of and how might it might be judged reasonable. Explain the significance of the “madness” to the work as a whole.
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