Notes on class 10/29

Announcements--

*Wear Costume Friday get some needed E.C.!

*Term papers-- Start considering topics, will be given in Z-A order, length between 3-100 pages.



Terminology

*Synecdoche-- a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part.




Quotes

*It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.-- Henry James

*We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.-- T.S. Eliot


Parallels and Connections between various texts

*Ending of Snow White where the Queen has to put on the red-hot iron shoes and dance to her death reminded me of a song by the band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! called "Satan Said Dance". The lyrics are as follows



"Satan said dance

He says to me to shake around
And don't stop 'til you hit the ground

And I know it is not how you thought it would be
No whips no chains just dancing dancing dancing dancing
dancing dancing dancing dancing dancing dancing dancing
dancing dancing dancing dancing"

*This may be kind of a stretch but the concept of dancing as torture is the kind of image that doesn't really come about too often and is pretty memorable when it does. This idea of dance as torture is pretty intriguing really. It evokes images of Sisyphus, condemned to do a task, but rather than suffer for eternity as the song suggests, the fate of the queen is an eventual ceasing of her dancing but only after she dies. Torture in fairy tales seems to provide an interesting perspective into the views of "justice" and "morality" that seem to be a main focus on these tales.