Monday, April 27, 2009

April 22 Class Notes

Jake
  • violence in the media
  • violence worse today=not true
  • ovid refutes that
  • media=control, and it is cathartic

Rio

  • echo
  • oen of the most powerful characters
  • self made immortality
  • she is tangible

Maggie

  • the 4 ages
  • felt they are too harsh
  • not absolite there is still beauty

Luke

  • wrote a story
  • bull finches mythology
  • Pyramus and thisbe

Kris

  • Response to his own father
  • metamorphosis through the class
  • family death
  • catharsis reading/writing

Daniel

  • tragedy in his life
  • metamophosis in the class to now
  • how he changed for the better
  • end of ovid's exhile
  • death is the mother of beauty
  • people are beautiful because they die

Sarah

  • Erysicthon
  • everyone is greedy
  • compared it to america
  • relation to modern life

Bizz

  • comparing Metamorphosis (Kafka) to Golden Ass
  • the different stages of their changes

Deborah

  • classical literature is phallocentic and it down plays the women
  • Creon/Antigone
  • Rape of the women Zeus vs. Trojan Women
  • women as objects

Shawni

  • Pathagrus
  • metempsychosis/ vegitarianism
  • Callisto and Penthius

Chole

  • magic
  • the idea of innocece in imagination
  • child belife we lose as we get older
  • turn into a butterfly/loss of magic
  • wish we could be adults with youthful innocnece

Anne

  • Popculture and our stories
  • rocky horror picture show/ pygmalion
  • human condition

Grace

  • symposium
  • transformation story of her theory on love
  • daughter of aphrodite and the daughter was lost
  • raised by humans and becomes a song
  • concerts and songs feeling of complete joy

Nick

  • Power of Eyes
  • indiana jones and cupid and psyche
  • pwoer to steal the soul

Jackie

  • idea of love and what socrates learned
  • love is a spirit that brings 2 people together

Kaitlyn

  • Metemporphosis and how it applies to our lives
  • ted hughes= instantanious
  • our lives= catapillars which is just as extreme
  • teenage girl
  • seeing poverty

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