Week 10 Entry
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
This must be the longest mind map in the entire world!!! I’m glad that I am not tackling it alone!
Looking at “The Argument” it’s as though this story is also a poem. “Without contraries there is no progression” this is a statement that I think still exists today. Life cannot always be about rainbows and butterflies and in order to heal, you need to be able to feel pain. The “just man” who begins on keeping to the right side of the law does not see a world of pain or suffering and therefore is only shown a world that is superficial. “Roses are planted where thorns grow” this quote confuses me in a way because roses are beautiful and with rich colours and distinct sweet smells and yet they grow from a thick green stem with thorns that tear out everywhere. The rose will only ever grow from the thorny stem so does this mean that everything that is beautiful will always grow from the base of things that aren’t?
“Then the perilous path was planted” I think this means that sometimes there is a path created for us that maybe we don’t want to take because we are so used to the safe path we are already on, the predictable path, the lonely path. However by taking the perilous path we are seeking the unknown, a path that will teach us things we don’t already know and cannot be taught out of a book. Through experience, we grow. Lessons are not always good but they are still lessons and part of life is learning.
