- Consider what are the common elements that exist in both plays, Oedipus and The Importance of Being Earnest, tragedy vs. comedy.
- Put what you think is the most endearing line in literature in your blog and try to resist lines with meaning and ideology.
MISTER PIP PASSAGES
- page 209- The importance of writing things down, forgetting and remembering
- page 153- moving forward
Every act of reading is an act of re-reading and revision.
"A work of art that is serious or has a large magnitude"- Aristotle's definition of a tragedy
ANAMNESIS- You don't learn anything, anything you learn is a remembering of something else- Plato
- We need to remember and we need to forget, you learn from what you remember
- Whenever you encounter authentic information, your shoulder blades will begin to itch because your wings are growing back
- "HOME" is one of the greatest weighted words in our language, "NOSTOS" means home in Greek. The world nostalgia comes from nostos.
- The artisits and their works are the greatest forms of reconciliation.
TERM PAPER IDEAS...the more specific the better the paper
- survival guide
- Matilda has opportunity to re-create herself; inventing a self creating, clash between logos and mythos, and Mr. Watts and Matilda's mother
- the power of friendship, Matilda's story is Great Expectations
- imagination vs. reality
- entertainment and instruction; god is in the details
- gaining and losing
- methamorphosis from reality to fiction
- see the wyas in which provate biography is changed through Mister Pip
- dreams vs. reality and how they are so entwined
- relationships, stories can be more realisitic
- Will have to give a 4-5 minute presentation on your paper, do not tell ABOUT the paper!
- "The task of the poet is to help people live their lives" -Wallace Stevens
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
- our lives have been scripted, the 3 wome(Fraubauman, Frausmitz, and Frauschwartz) spin our fates and snip the thread when they believe it is long enough, you can do nothing to control that.
- The story of Oedipus fulfills the classic requirements of a hero with 1000 faces story. He covers many of the 22 points that occur in all stories of heroes.
- Oedipus means "lame foot" or "club foot", play begins with Oedipus talking to the priest and limps out on stage from the holes drilled into his ankles when he was an infant.
- Oedipus becomes the King of Thebes after he gets past the Sphinx and kills the current king who happens to be his father.
- The sphinx is a half lion, half woman with wings who talks in riddles and any man wishing to pass must answer the riddle correctly and kill the sphinx. The answer was men because at birth men crawl on 4 legs, at adulthood they walk on 2 legs, and at old age they use their legs plus a cane to use 3 tools to walk.
- He specifically murdered the king at a crossroads, a place where 3 roads meet.
- Things are not good in Thebes when he arrives it has become a wasteland.
- Oedipus is smart and powerful and rids the city of its issues, he then marries Jocasta (his mother) and has 4 children with her, one being named Antigony.
- Another plague comes over the city and the only way to rid it is to kill the person who killed the former king, no one knows it was actually Oedipus who did it.
- Oedipus interegates Tyresius, the blind soothsayer who only speaks the truth.
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