Homework 5
Due: January 8 (section 2) or January 9 (section 1)
1. Read the excerpts from _Modern Love_
2. Write a 450-word personal essay that uses the SAME TITLE as one of the essays in the book (essay titles appear in the table of contents). Write it from the point of view of someone other than yourself (alive, dead, or fictional). Like the other essays, this piece should reveal something about the character and use specific examples.
3. Read Hippolytus, another play that appears in the Medea book.
4. Continue thinking of ways to strengthen or revamp video 5 (section 2) and video 2 (section 1) on the Tainted Love Wiki.
5. Watch this video!
6. Ponder the following: How do Hippolytus, the Helen Fisher video, and the modern love essays reflect similar issues to those that appear in Euripides’s Medea? Are the essays and plays actually about love, infatuation, lust, or something else? Don’t forget to bring your book to class!
7. I have added all of you to my twitter account (you should be receiving emails about this soon. If you don’t see the email, check your junk mail box). You will need to log in, but DO NOT USE YOUR REAL NAME! Use the name you created for the wiki. If you have any thoughts about love over break, twitter them to everyone!
December 28th, 2007 at 10:20 am
I think the TED video was really interesting, but i dont know if i can see what she is talking about yet. She brought up all these facts and numbers about women, but its so hard to see that rise in women when i constantly see women being put down.
But two things that annoyed me:
She kept on saying something about women ‘a million years ago’, but the human species wasnt around a million years ago. So yeah.
And, she was only really talking about straight women in the love/relationship part. That bothered me a lot.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
As for the plays Hippolytus and Medea, i think that the core subject are the Gods. In both plays they are the ones who stir trouble and lust/love/infatuation. But at the same time i guess that that doesnt mean the plays ARENT about love/lust/infatuation. I guess what i mean to say is that the l/l/i are not real, but placed in the hearts of mortals by Gods, making the play/story nonexistent if it was not for them.