week 6
Reflection:
It is important to study literature because it is just as important as a previous battle in one of the wars both are part of history and influenced how society is today. This class has helped me realize that not only do you read literature for simple enjoyment but also to appreciate the hidden meanings by analysis of the piece of writing. I had read the story "Boys and Girls" in my grade 12 English class in high school but i didn't really applicate or even notice it's binaries until they were brought to my attention by the given assignment. It is very interesting also to go through reading the discussion questions because everyone creates there own ideas and you really get to see this when you read the discussions from the class and a classmate will point out a binary you didn't notice. It's a great way to help you learn to read literature especially since students that might normally not speak up in a class discussion about it but in d2l discussions everyone has a voice and gets to share their opinions. I think learning this way has been very useful because it is always there to look at or review unlike a one hour weekly class that you could attend and not remember what was said a week later.
The most interesting aspect of studying literature for me is finding all the hidden meanings the author has included while writing his or her piece of work. Trying to read in between the lines and grasp hidden concepts like in the "boat" when the father died, which was his way of self sacrificing himself so his son could have a better life that wasn't being a fisherman. I think binaries really help you obtain a better understanding of what the author is trying to say to the readers. I want to continue to learn different techniques for analyzing different types of literature. It is something that is a lifelong tool.
I am f concerned about the play Oedipus because I have never really been good at analyzing plays especially ones written like Shakespeare but I hope the tools I have already learned makes me better at understanding it.
Part 2:
Hamartia; inherent defect of short coming in the hero of a tragedy, who is in other respects a superior being favored by fortune. An example of this in the play is Oedipus because of his arrogance and stubbornness to find out about his history at any cost leads to the downward spiral of his thrown. "However base my birth, I must know about it. The Queen, like a woman, is perhaps ashamed to think of my low origin. But I Am a child of Luck; I cannot be dishonored". Even though he is warned several times to not going digging for the truth he still continues and when he finally finds it he is ruined.
Hubris: excessive pride of self confidence (arrogant). An example of this is when Oedipus is having a conversation with Teiresias who is saying "Let me go home. Bear your own fate, and I'll Bear mine. It is better so: trust what I say." Oedipus is persistant and just wants to know what he knows and doesn't care about the outcome of what this knowledge might bring. "What you say is ungracious and unhelpful To your native country. Do not refuse to speak"
Catharsis: the purging of the emotions of relieving of emotional tensions. An example of that is when Oedipus is reveling to his wife the emotions he felt when he first heard that his parents who raised him as their own might not be his birth parents. Even though they try to reassure him that they are his real parents he still doesn't believe it in his heart.
Polybos of Corinth is my father.My mother is a Dorian: Merope. I grew up chief among the men of Corinth Until a strange thing happened Not worth my passion, it may be, but strange. At a feast, a drunken man maundering in his cups' Cries out that I am not my father's son! I contained myself that night, though I felt anger And a sinking heart. The next day I visited My father and mother, and questioned them. They stormed, Calling it all the slanderous rant of a fool; And this relieved me. Yet the suspicion Remained always aching in my mind; .... I could not rest;
Peripeteia: sudden turn of evens or an unexpected reversal. An example of this is when Teiresias tells the king
"To the children with whom he lives now he will be Brother and father - the very same; to her Who bore him, son and husband - the very same" He is forewarning the king that his relationship with his children he is not only their father but their brother as well and that his wife is also his son. Because Teiresias tells this to Oedipus in riddles he hasn't quite figured it out yet but this it what changes the story. "never until now has any man brought word Of Laios' dark death staining Oedipus the King". Now the king is on a hunt to find out the real true of what happened to Laios which leads his to discover his own past.
Anagnorisis: the critical moment of recognition or discovery, especially preceding peripeteia. An example of this is when the messenger is revels to Oedipus that in fact his worries about the prophecy and concerns about not returning to "Corinth" in fear of killing his parents was askew because "Polybos was not [his] father: Not my father? No more your father than the man speaking to you." This is when Oedipus finally is confronted with the truth about his life riddles and realizes the truth of his wife and mother . "whose womb had carried his own children and himself". This leads to the chain of events where eventually "he will leave Thebes,Self-exiled, in order that the curse Which he himself pronounced may depart from the house".
all definitions from dictionary.com
It is important to study literature because it is just as important as a previous battle in one of the wars both are part of history and influenced how society is today. This class has helped me realize that not only do you read literature for simple enjoyment but also to appreciate the hidden meanings by analysis of the piece of writing. I had read the story "Boys and Girls" in my grade 12 English class in high school but i didn't really applicate or even notice it's binaries until they were brought to my attention by the given assignment. It is very interesting also to go through reading the discussion questions because everyone creates there own ideas and you really get to see this when you read the discussions from the class and a classmate will point out a binary you didn't notice. It's a great way to help you learn to read literature especially since students that might normally not speak up in a class discussion about it but in d2l discussions everyone has a voice and gets to share their opinions. I think learning this way has been very useful because it is always there to look at or review unlike a one hour weekly class that you could attend and not remember what was said a week later.
The most interesting aspect of studying literature for me is finding all the hidden meanings the author has included while writing his or her piece of work. Trying to read in between the lines and grasp hidden concepts like in the "boat" when the father died, which was his way of self sacrificing himself so his son could have a better life that wasn't being a fisherman. I think binaries really help you obtain a better understanding of what the author is trying to say to the readers. I want to continue to learn different techniques for analyzing different types of literature. It is something that is a lifelong tool.
I am f concerned about the play Oedipus because I have never really been good at analyzing plays especially ones written like Shakespeare but I hope the tools I have already learned makes me better at understanding it.
Part 2:
Hamartia; inherent defect of short coming in the hero of a tragedy, who is in other respects a superior being favored by fortune. An example of this in the play is Oedipus because of his arrogance and stubbornness to find out about his history at any cost leads to the downward spiral of his thrown. "However base my birth, I must know about it. The Queen, like a woman, is perhaps ashamed to think of my low origin. But I Am a child of Luck; I cannot be dishonored". Even though he is warned several times to not going digging for the truth he still continues and when he finally finds it he is ruined.
Hubris: excessive pride of self confidence (arrogant). An example of this is when Oedipus is having a conversation with Teiresias who is saying "Let me go home. Bear your own fate, and I'll Bear mine. It is better so: trust what I say." Oedipus is persistant and just wants to know what he knows and doesn't care about the outcome of what this knowledge might bring. "What you say is ungracious and unhelpful To your native country. Do not refuse to speak"
Catharsis: the purging of the emotions of relieving of emotional tensions. An example of that is when Oedipus is reveling to his wife the emotions he felt when he first heard that his parents who raised him as their own might not be his birth parents. Even though they try to reassure him that they are his real parents he still doesn't believe it in his heart.
Polybos of Corinth is my father.My mother is a Dorian: Merope. I grew up chief among the men of Corinth Until a strange thing happened Not worth my passion, it may be, but strange. At a feast, a drunken man maundering in his cups' Cries out that I am not my father's son! I contained myself that night, though I felt anger And a sinking heart. The next day I visited My father and mother, and questioned them. They stormed, Calling it all the slanderous rant of a fool; And this relieved me. Yet the suspicion Remained always aching in my mind; .... I could not rest;
Peripeteia: sudden turn of evens or an unexpected reversal. An example of this is when Teiresias tells the king
"To the children with whom he lives now he will be Brother and father - the very same; to her Who bore him, son and husband - the very same" He is forewarning the king that his relationship with his children he is not only their father but their brother as well and that his wife is also his son. Because Teiresias tells this to Oedipus in riddles he hasn't quite figured it out yet but this it what changes the story. "never until now has any man brought word Of Laios' dark death staining Oedipus the King". Now the king is on a hunt to find out the real true of what happened to Laios which leads his to discover his own past.
Anagnorisis: the critical moment of recognition or discovery, especially preceding peripeteia. An example of this is when the messenger is revels to Oedipus that in fact his worries about the prophecy and concerns about not returning to "Corinth" in fear of killing his parents was askew because "Polybos was not [his] father: Not my father? No more your father than the man speaking to you." This is when Oedipus finally is confronted with the truth about his life riddles and realizes the truth of his wife and mother . "whose womb had carried his own children and himself". This leads to the chain of events where eventually "he will leave Thebes,Self-exiled, in order that the curse Which he himself pronounced may depart from the house".
all definitions from dictionary.com