April 13 Class Notes

2-3 min presentations
talkiing
discovering
example (an enjoyable one)
read a sentence from your piece

on friday
z-p
then
p-h
finally
p-a

Golden ass pg numbers of interest

• 18
• 25
• 2860
• 71
• 93
• 117
• 120
• 127
• 131
• 132
• 139
• 143

A young woman is abducted by robbers , and an old woman tells her the best way out of this is through story. so she tells her of Cupid and Psyche

18- Outrageous happenings that are hard to beleive even though you are there

"Gimple the Fool" also stretches the bounds of credibility

25- what you see is not really what it seems

28- Acteon seeing Diane bathing

59-60- character who is not bright in an odd situation/ n elaborate hoaz for the benefit of the protaganist

ex: the truman show, or Anger Management

71- His transformation

• rub ointment but the wrong kind is put on him and then he was abducted by bandits
• only way to change back is to eat roses
• look at Deborah's for meaning of the goldene ass and the religious take on it

Once Upon a time...transportus us back into history....to a place that cannot be exactly pin ounted

• beauty and the beast- cupid and psyche
• phylosophical allegory between the soul and its relationship to love
• psyche means mind now but was originally used for SOUL
  always a butterfly
• cupid is a trickster
• psyches accepts death like Iphogenia, even though Psyche is saved
• the best love is to be in love with love!