30. Jun, 2010 
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Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is a confusing play, but one lesson that it seems to impart is that sometimes idealistic value systems do not work when put into practice. Titus Andronicus goes to great — almost hyperbolic — lengths to make this clear, though it is often overlooked trying to make ethical sense out of a [...]
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Revenge tragedy depicts a son’s revenge for a father’s murder (or vice versa). The murder is revealed and directed to the protagonist by the murdered man’s ghost. Revenge results from conscious and focused action.
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The following are major ideas held by conservative writers and thinkers of Neoclassicism.
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Comedy is poetry that transmutes a sad beginning into a happy ending.
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Euripides’ Medea suggests that in order for the patriarchy to understand its inherent double standards, one must strike it at its very center: those who would continue its tradition.
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