Notes for Class : 2/10/10

Ok, first time taking actual notes in class. Ill get better at this, I promise.

1]Everyone should be done with the Book 1 of The Brothers Karamozov. If your not, get there and start Book 2.
Alyosha: he is the lover of humanity, though he to seems to have inherited the "bad strain or madness" gene like the rest of his family. He clearly remembers his mother though, just as we can sometimes remember clearly our earliest memories, even we couldn't talk. He remembered and open window, and the slanting rays fo the setting sun. The holy image, and his mother crying and shrieking underneath it. She snatched him up and held him to the image.

2]Garden of Eden story. Be familiar with it
-Book of Genesis. All stories fit together to form one story. Nakedness. There is a difference between being naked, and knowing that you are naked. (Knowledge)

3]Psyche and Eros. Be familiar with it
-Psyche "fell in love with love"
-Relates to Cinderella
-Relates also to Snow White.

4] The Fall of Icarus. Read the story and be familiar with it.
THERE IS NO MORAL TO THE STORY!!! If there were a moral, the story wouldn't of happened.
-A poem should not mean, but be.
-There is always more than one "moral" to everyone.

5] 3 Greatest Tragedies of All TIME:
1) King Lear-Shakespeare
2) Book of Jacob-Bible
3) The Brothers Karamazov- Dostroevesky

6] Read "A Good Man is Hard to Find" from text. Blog!!!