My Book for Eng:21001 Main Menu Chapter 1 "Hypomnema" Due: Feb 14 2018 Chapter 2.1: Literary Analysis - Rough Draft Due: Feb 26 2018 Chapter 2.2 : Literacy Analysis - Final Draft Due: Mar 7 2018 Chapter 3: Music or Film Analysis Due: Mar 28 2018 Chapter 5: Final Research Paper Due: May 16 2018

Chapter 4 : Research Proposal

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Tragedy is one of the main categories of aesthetics. It is the affirmation of beauty in the dramatic contradiction and tragic artistic expression and it is often associated with nobility and grandeur. It creates a deep and immense sympathy and a spiritual shock with its profound artistic appeal to inspire people and induce their deep sense of aesthetics. Tragedy is sentimental and people are reluctant to see it. However, in literary works, tragedy has a strong influence and temptation, which makes people think and understand in a hasty manner.

In this paper, I will argue that tragedy is caused by nature, destiny and personal flaws such as personalities. In modern society, people are dreaming about to have a pure love and pure love always ends in tragedy. The world is not perfect, an invisible hand it drives the balance of the world. The most beautiful period has stopped because people can't go back. The [ast becomes precious and all that remains are beauties. That existence of good and evils, life and death, black and white...etc. Perfection is a vision or a lifelong pursuit. Because it is too beautiful, it can only be a kind of ultimate goal or wish. Tragedy, because it tends to tear up the false appearance to the person, it has a kind of incomplete beauty, and the taste after reading it is impressive. One of the famous literary drama, written by Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", a perfect book that illustrates the beauty of tragic love. Shakespeare warns us that the conflict that breeds tragedy is ultimately not in nature, nor in politics, but in ourselves. Freed from the bondage of nature and politics, we may have little defense against the destruction of this conflict.

I will concentrate mostly on the drama Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet's love is too idealistic to survive in this imperfect world. Thus, their love must be tragic. Also, under the pressure of the social rules, the conflict between two families, the conflict between parents and children, and the conflict between public and private life. We are free to find happiness as long as we are free from outdated customs and institutions. Romeo and Juliet lived under the binding of their family institutions; the real and passionate love inevitably leads to poor results. So, Romeo and Juliet were meant to be destined, not to fate, not to justice, but to their own character flaws. The majority of my information will be found in the academic articles because there are many reliable articles from the CCNY Library resources. There are few articles that I will use in my research paper: "Reason to believe: In a world beset by evil, we are universally compelled towards good--surely proof of the existence of God", written by Paul Johnson, he discusses the defects of the world that led to tragedy. "Fate and Fortune in Romeo and Juliet", written by D. Douglas Waters, he acknowledges that there is nothing above the fate and destiny is immutable. And finally not the last, "Romeo and Juliet" written by John Erskine, he establishes an idea that doomed love encounters a fatal obstacle; the fury of passion led them to their doom.

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  1. A great topic! Bradley M Nelson Jinglin -- You're off to a great start with your proposal. It's clear that you've done quite a bit of thinking about the connection between Romeo and Juliet and tragedy. But you'll need to be careful not to brush with strokes that are too wide. Speaking about the "proof for the existence of God" is entirely too broad to broach in a research paper. So be sure to rein in your ambition a bit. Also, be sure to distinguish between academic research and an opinion shared by a person who happens to be an academic. Just a thought! -Bradley