Class Notes 3/31

notes

Homework blogging: 2nd epiphany in Hamlet, what does he learn? last topic, relationship between Bhagavad-Gita & Hamlet......specifically last scene.

Hamlet, dark epiphany, whole entirety of life is dark and corrupt, play of illusions....play, act, pretending.....

everything is maya = illusion

in Act V Hamlet transcends this notion of corrupt world and illusion

Blogging homework: blog about other blogs...

We discussed paper topics in class and some people shared theirs....ZuZu, Joan, Doug, Taylor...

Taylor .....she talked about detachment as well and said, "Dr. Sexson craftily led me down the path of knowledge." to which Dr. Sexson replied, "that's my job. Sexson sexsoning."

Hamlet's soliloquy Act IV Scene 4 (pg 103 in my book)
"How all occasions do inform...."
part of the first dark epiphany
*see page 59 in Bhagavad-Gita, "learned men see with an equal eye.."

Dr. Sexson - "I'm going to kill you Joan, but don't take it personally. And I wont take it personally." (it's one of those you had to be there conversations.....but if you've read the Bhagavad-Gita you'll get it)

has anyone ever praised you???
well....get over it! it has nothing to do with you.
praise and blame, rise above......detach......(true anger management program)

be in the world, not of it

Brianne's blog, time
Dry Salvages, pg. 42 "While time is withdrawn,
consider the future
and past with an equal mind."
*see page 59 in Bhagavad Gita (above)

Oppenheimer, inventor of the atomic bomb, page 103 in Bhagavad Gita, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

pg 39
we had the experience but missed the meaning......we are the creatures who have created meaning for ourselves.
approach to the meaning restores...

Taylor, moments of epiphany in fairy tales...difference between children and adult epiphanies...

"go said the bird for the leaves were full of children"

Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies
here is an except from a paper I wrote for Brit Lit II with Dr. Lisa Eckert,
"The story becomes more like a fairy-tale and delves into a world where the lines between reality and fantasy are smeared. Tom drowns in a stream, but does not die. He goes through a sort of de-evolution, from being a land-baby into a water-baby. He now lives in the water with all the creatures you would find in a stream. He swims around as half-human and half-fish." He also makes a lobster friend. The paper really talked about Darwin and Kingsley and The Water Babies as an exploration of evolution.....

little baby otters don't have epiphanies, they are epiphanies....
how do we regain this ability to be epiphanies....?