Notes on chapter 2 pg.14-25 Socrates: The First Moralist Socrates (c.470-399 B.C) he was 70 years old when he died‚ his father was Sophroniscus‚ a sculptor‚ his mother Phaenarete‚ was a midwife. Socrates was likely a stonemason and a sculptor before turning to philosophy. He was a soldier during the Peloponnesian War. He has walked barefoot across ice‚ meditated standing up for thirty-six hours. He had the ability to ignore physical discomfort in order to achieve some greater mental or spiritual
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The current movement of absurdism‚ however‚ emerged in France after World War II‚ as a rebellion against the traditional values and beliefs of Western culture and literature. It began with the existentialist writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus and eventually included other writers such as Eugene Ionesco‚ James Joyce‚ Samuel Beckett‚ Jean Genet‚ Edward Albee‚ and Harold Pinter‚ to name a few. Its rules are fairly simple: 1.) There is often no real story line; instead there is a series of
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These two myths being chosen was not an accident. To understand why though‚ a bit of background information is needed. Both Sisyphus and Tantalus were punished by the gods for disrespecting them in some way or for not doing as told. In Tantalus’s case‚ he committed many crimes against the gods. Most of them were because of his pride‚ a sin very familiar to most people. His most
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Brady Detwiler Art of Nonfiction Professor Hoffman 10/15/14 On “Against Joie de Vivre” Phillip Lopate’s “Against Joie de Vivre” is‚ in a sense‚ an absurd project. The term joie de vivre‚ after all‚ literally translates as “the joy of living”‚ and if we as readers are to take this denotation at face value‚ one must naturally ask—why would one take up such an argument? The title tacitly asserts a nonsensical proposition‚ and presuming that we are convinced by what Lopate writes‚ what then shall we
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Different interpreting on the theme of A hunger Artist “A Hunger Artist Gallery’s name derives from a short story by Franz Kafka and‚ as with artists today‚ Kafka’s ‘hunger artist’ struggles for recognition and understanding within society. As a contemporary gallery we support ‘visual hunger artists’ in their universal inquiry about their modern world‚ helping to bridge the gap between the general public and the current art scene • What are some possible symbolic interpretations of the hunger
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poem reveals the men’s customs and furthermore the never ending ritual of man‚ which guides the reader to conclude that In this poem Robert Frost does make an allusion to the famous Greek myth of Sisyphus. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this legend‚ it tells the story of a man named Sisyphus who was condemned to the chronic punishment of continuously pushing an oversized boulder up a steep hill only to watch it roll back down so he could start the process all over again. This directly
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Marge Piercy who was born in Detroit‚ is known as a feminist writer. Her poem‚ ‘Breaking Out’ was first published in the Harbor Review in 1984. The poem portrays the double oppression faced by a girl‚ for being a girl child and a child‚ at the same time. The poem depicts how the girl wants to ‘break out’ from the conventional norms of the society which is responsible for the oppression. SUMMARY: Lines 1-7: These lines describe the first political act led by a girl who is subjected to endless humiliation
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The Stranger‚ written by Albert Camus‚ is set in the time period right before World War II‚ around the early 1940s. The protagonist of the story is a frenchman named Meursault who struggles throughout much of the story in a battle with the legal system of his society; this is person vs. society conflict that shows up often. In the exposition of the story‚ Meursault has received a telegram informing him of the death of his mother. However‚ Meursault doesn’t really care that his mother has died. In
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way it is. If living with an existence in which objective reality is a moot point‚ then what is the point of it all? While reading the Myth of Sisyphus‚ we learn that for all his hard work‚ Sisyphus only receives moments of pleasure before his torment begins again. This metaphor for life is both deep and a perfect parallel for this statement. Sisyphus couldn’t explain why his punishment was the way it
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really it was all the same to me.” Camus continued‚ “Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives‚ that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine at all.” (Camus‚ 41). His boss even directly said that he had no ambition‚ “He looked upset and told me that I never gave him a straight answer‚ that I had no ambition‚ and that that was disastrous in business.” (Camus‚
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