The Essence of Tragedy

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The tragedy of Kampuchea.

This paper, abstracted from the final report of the Kampuchea Inquiry Commission, analyses the population losses in Cambodia prior to 1979 and goes on to describe some of the unwanted side effects of the international relief programmes in both Thailand and in Kampuchea. The paper concludes that various opposition movements to the present Vietnamese backed regime in Kampuchea have been strengthe...

Tragedy of the uncommon

On 13 March six men were admitted to intensive care at Northwick Park Hospital, London, after suffering severe reactions while taking part in a phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental drug in a research unit run at the hospital by US-owned Parexel International, a contract research company. Two days later, the story hit the front pages, as successive editions of the London Evening Standard an...

The Tragedy of Tragedies

The Tragedy of Operationalism