Tuesday, March 10, 2009

March 9 Class Notes

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Aristophanes
  • pg 22
  • tear your balls off
  • unpleasant flighting between the choruses
  • Arostophanes shows himself as a masoganist
  • pg 23
  • flighting
  • example The Sandlot
  • old men and old women fighting = old hag, not your slave, you can't judge me, set fire to your hair
  • women are victorious because they scueltch the men's fire
  • commisioner comes in, the men want the women punished
  • pg 27
  • can't let women win
  • Lysistrata says, the women will starve the war todeath, because the women take care of the money, they are the planners and managers
  • the men protest it is not the same because women do not fight in wars
  • men support more war like leaders
  • the women dress the councelor up as a women and then as a corpse
  • pg 34-35
  • women use a wool metaphor,
  • take something dirty and clean it until it is good and useful
  • women fight war two times, they have sons and lose them as well as their husbands to the war
  • men believe justice is up to them

Phallocentric

  • understand the making fun of it
  • not biological in the penis sense but in the symbolic sense as a male view of the world
  • such as the Lewistown Canons

Lysistrata

  • pg 40
  • women no longer staunch in their vows, many are sneaking off
  • lysistrata must change their mind
  • one woman hides a helmet under her dress to give the illusion that she is having a baby
  • REFERENCE TO OVID: Tarius goes to retreive sister in law, and falls in love and rapes her
  • pg 48
  • Ciresas is only interested in sex, not is son or anything else
  • pg 57
  • all men are depicted wearing cloaks, w/ erections
  • Aristophanes insists things must work out in the end which is comedy in general

Reconciliation

  • pg 61
  • PARABASIS when chorus looks out at the audience and seaks as one
  • sense of comeraderie and reconciliation with characters and the audience
  • pg 64
  • representation on cover of book is allegorically as the stuffed doll
  • resolving Pelepenesian war
  • absolutly necessary for comedy

Th Golden Ass

  • the original mid summer's night dream

Dante

  • ends happily

Moonstruck

  • pg 72
  • importance of reconciliation
  • gives up hosility
  • feast, weddings, and dancing are all in comedies
  • comedy is about the community
  • tragedy is about the individual

Ecstasy

  • to stand outside yourself

Trojan Women

  • melodramatic
  • Aristophanies has the best sense of tragedy because he had a tragic sense of life
  • Agamemnon comes home and it is not going to be good
  • Ajax raped Cassandra
  • Poseiden and Athena decide the Greeks must be punished for this mis deed
  • Agamemnon killed his own daughter
  • he is killed by his wife and her lover, because of his folly

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