Response To 'Ten Indians' By Joseph Campbell, A Cultural Anthropology

Seventh Assignment
Task 1: Review the Assignment 7 Lecture. Restate its lesson. Use no fewer than 50 words. Joseph Campbell, a cultural anthropologist, recognizes an arrowhead as the oldest piece of art created by humans since it preserves beauty. It is reduced to one point, “Its material composition is harmonized, singularized, and elegantly articulated towards a purpose” (Hicks L7). While writing you should follow the form of an arrowhead, you should start on a wide path that slowly tapers into a narrow gate. In your writing you would introduce ideas that lead to a specific assertion, a thesis. Similar to King Kong, we find that beauty is a master force. The arrowhead overcomes savagery by killing it.

Task 2: Listen to “Ten Indians”
The freed prisoner would hurt as he looked around the cave and found a great light from fire. The prisoner would be in greater shock and pain when he discovered the world outside the cave. As he overcomes shock as well a pain, he would discover that his former view of reality was wrong. He would find beauty, color, and form. He might be sad by finding all these things because it would make his past life meaningless. As many people do when they discover something new, the freed prisoner would go back and share with the other two prisoners. He finds that he is no longer used to the darkness and shadows. Plato suggests that the prisoners would reject him, “And would they not let him know that he had gone up but, only in order to come back down into the cave with his eyes ruined -- and thus it certainly does not pay to go up” (5). He also suggests that they would reject him even to the point of
He identifies a viscous cycle of break down and rebirth of each government form over time, hence the name “The Circle of Government”. He identifies each opposite form of government: tyranny, oligarchy, and licentiousness. He continues by identifying how a monarchy could turn into a tyranny through the heredity line. “But when they began to make sovereignty hereditary and non-elective, the children quickly degenerated from their fathers; and, so far from trying to equal their virtues…” (Machiavelli 1). He thought that the children of the king would focus on living a rich life instead of one that focused on politics. He goes on to describe this as an aristocracy, where few noblemen would be in charge chasing the things they desired. They would seek riches and power by the form of violence, the people would quickly be disgusted with the oligarchy and overthrow the government to form a popular government. Machiavelli described a democratic government as, “…bearing in mind the past tyranny, they governed in strict accordance with the laws which they had established themselves; preferring public interests to their own, and to administer and protect with greatest care both public and private affairs” (2). After sometime the form of democracy would spiral into licentiousness. “Each individual only consulted his own passions, and a thousand acts of