Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that tragedy in theater helps us recognize and value heroism in real life.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset suggests that theatrical tragedies serve an important purpose beyond entertainment; they awaken our perception and understanding of heroism in our everyday experiences. By experiencing tragic narratives, we become more attuned to the struggles and virtues encountered in reality, leading to greater appreciation for acts of courage and nobility in our lives.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of the arts in education, one could use this quote to highlight the impact of drama on empathy.
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.
We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
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