All 3 Uses of
melodrama
in
Man And Superman
- Nobody does: the successes such plays sometimes obtain are due to the incidental conventional melodrama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure.†
Chpt Ded.
- Our newspapers and melodramas are blustering about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire.†
Chpt Ded. *
- Here you call your appearance beauty, your emotions love, your sentiments heroism, your aspirations virtue, just as you did on earth; but here there are no hard facts to contradict you, no ironic contrast of your needs with your pretensions, no human comedy, nothing but a perpetual romance, a universal melodrama.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(melodrama) a film or other drama with exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflict as good battles evil
or:
behavior with exaggerated emotions and interpersonal conflict