Essays Tagged: "vicarious experience"

The Use of Metaphor, Diction, and Symbol in Sharon Olds' The One Girl at the Boys Party

ed with the minds of the female gender, and the strength of the adolescent, whose mother recounts a vicarious experience that seems to stand a landmark in the social and sexual development of a young ... mindful detail in respect to diction and metaphor create a poem that fosters the imagination, and a vicarious acceptance of those scenarios in which our whole world seems to fall to change.

(2 pages) 121 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Aristotle's Poetics. It examines and explains an excerpt from the philosopher's work. The essay examines the way in which tragedy works and affects its audience, according to Aristotle.

d fear within its audience, causing catharsis, or the purgation, or purification of emotion through vicarious experience. The audience members relate to the character's hamartia, or tragic flaw, and b ... agedy." Tragedy, after all, is an "imitation of action." Thus, this "action," the plot, becomes the vicarious experience which will essentially cause the audience's catharsis. The plot must follow a c ...

(2 pages) 94 0 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy