Sophocles and Many More

Sophocles: Sophocles is a writer who lived in ancient Greek at around 400 B.C. He wrote 123 plays in his life time and only about 7 of them have survived. He also competed in about 30 festival competitions and won about 24 of them. He died at about the age of 90 and it is unknown on how he died.


     Oedipus Rex (Play): Oedipus Rex is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles and pro formed in 429 B.C. This play was the the second of three Theban plays. The play is a classic tragedy where the characters own fault leads to his downfall instead of having fate being the only cause of his fall.


Oedipus Rex (Man): Oedipus Rex is a man who's fate is to kill his father and marry his mother. Like anyone Oedipus try's to avoid this fate. These actions that Oedipus takes later come back and the prophecy is fulfilled due to those actions. As you can see fate is not the only thing that fulfills this but it is also Oedipus's chooses that help.

Oedipus Rex (Myth): Many variations of this myth are referenced by many ancient Greek poets such as Homer. The most popular version is comes from a set of Theban plays by Sophocles. It shows how a characters own chooses effect his decided fate to fulfill it. As Oedipus try's to run from his fate ultimately he confronts it and fulfills it.

Tragedy: Aristotelian tragedy is a form of Greek tragedy that meets the requirements laid out by poetics. It also follows the concept of tragic hero where the hero's decisions ultimately lead to his downfall. It also includes the idea that every tragedy must have six parts and those parts are, plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, melody.

Hubris: Hubris means extreme pride or arrogance. It also refers to the overestimation of ones capability's or accomplishments. We can see that in Oedipus Rex Oedipus is hubris and believes that if he runs away he will be able to escape his fate. Hubris also relates to other plays with the tragic hero where the hero overestimates his ability to change his fate. 


Greek Theater: Greek theaters are usually built open and outside. Usually they are built by a sanctuary because of dramas close connection to religion. Important aspects of Greek theater are the costumes and masks the performers wear and also the orchestra and what they play. 

Dramatic Irony: Dramatic irony is where the audience knows a important piece of information that the character doesn't. There are three stages of dramatic irony, they are preparation, suspension, and resolution. We can see this irony in Oedipus, Oedipus does not now that he is running to his birth parents and does not know who they are. 


Teiresias: Teiresias is a blind prophet for Apollo from Greek mythology. He is a prophet in Thebes and is famous for being transformed into a women for seven years. He was the son of shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. He appeared in many Greek tragedy's  including Oedipus Rex. 

Fate: Fate is when your path in life is already decided for you when you are born. This was a big concept in ancient Greek and made a big impact on plays and tragedy's. The Greeks believed that you have a chosen path for you but you can know this path by asking prophets of the gods. 

The many views of the world

                 In this movie there were many images that made you think of many ideas and conflicts that our occurring in the world today. I think that this movie related to semester one because it played with many ideas we explored. Some of these ideas where religion, war, culture, good and evil, and many more. This movie really made you think of other things outside the spectrum of your life. To understand some of these images you had to look deeper much like looking at the deeper meanings in semester one books. I think images that evoked wonderment were ones about religion and looking at all these separate religious properties like buildings and rituals. This just makes you think of the beauty of these buildings and rituals and how they seem to bring a group of people together that believe in the same thing. Another think that evoked compassion was the images of poverty. The movie does not limit poverty to one nation but shows that many nations deal with poverty. Some images in the movie also should cities and community’s build on poverty and living on trash. I think that for me this made me think of things inside my everyday life that I take for granite. I think that brussats opinions on impactful images differs because she is looking at things like the order the images were shown in and some nature images. I personally didn’t think that the nature images were as good as some of the other images.

                The movement and music of the film is very interesting and has a cool effect on the images. The movement I noticed goes from nature to poorer nations to more developed nations basically going through the life of different places. These places you can see all start and end in the same place and have many more comparisons through the journey. The Music of the movie was very interesting because it seemed to flow perfectly with the images. In intense parts of the film it seemed the drums sounded like your heart beat. In nature parts the music made you feel like everything was peaceful and quite. I think that the films main objective is to just show the similarities between everything on this earth. Some parts you saw what happens when we think that out differences are a problem like the holocaust museums and the burning oils. But through the film it made many noticeable comparisons between different cultures. I think its overall thesis was that humans have many differences but also many similarities and if we only focus on the differences it could lead to our ultimate death. 

Review of the Flies

          In general I liked this book but if I was choosing to read a book for fun I would not choose this book. This book was very interesting and had many cool concepts in it but If I were to just read this book and not annotate or talk about it which I usually do, I would think of the book is about sick minded kids killing each other on the island. I would get some of the deeper concepts and meanings but not all would be present when reading this book. I am glad that I got to read this book in this class because it was like a book club for the book and I got more meaning from the reading when we came to class the next day and talked about the book. I really liked lot of the concepts in the book and how Golding was able to almost give the book different meanings. One of the concepts in the book I really liked was the body that represented history. I really liked this because when I read this chapter I didn't think of the body that way but when we came to class and talked about how the body represented history it was really clear that after taking another look at the text. "There was a sudden bright explosion and a corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again and stars." (Golding 96) This part is when the body first appears and reading this the first time I thought nothing of it but then I realized that it is like the big bang which is the beginning of history. I thought this was really cool but I also liked how there was basically a clock in the book telling you how long the boys have been on the island. "He would like to have a pair of scissors and cut his hair-he flung the mass back-cut his filthy hair right back to a half inch." (Golding 110) The way to tell how long the boys where on the island was small references to how long the boys hair is from the beginning. As the boys progress through the book Golding says things that reference that there hair is longer or there is a lot of hair now. I think this just shows how deep this book is that even for the time you have to look at the text and read it maybe twice to see what time it is.