22January2007

What's Old:

Assignments:

• -Antigone: Pg.121 and lines 231 to 277 *test*

Notes:

• -Why is Western society only based on a "fist full" of myths? Why are there so many Antigones? Why can present day authors not come up with any new ideas?
  
• -Tragedians could not refer to anything taking place in the present.
  
• -Comedians had free reign.
  
• -We can use myths to decipher the truths of the present.
  
• -This class focuses on women and the obscene or off stage.
  
• -Antigones contains these conflicts

1. Man vs. Woman

2. Young vs. Old

3. Society vs. the Individual

4. The Living vs. the Dead

5. Man (Humankind) vs. God(s)

Thoughts:

• While it might be better to have things go over your head than under, the latter sound worse to me because if something were to go under my head, it may result in decapitation. My point being, the material going under your head may make all of the difference as to how devastating having it under your head truly is. Also, no one has ever been hurt by something going over their head. :0)