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ELIT 46A – Day Two

ELIT 46A – Day Two. Olympic Opening. Idealized Past – our entire course. Danny Boyle sees England as the island ruled by Prospero in The Tempest. Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

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ELIT 46A – Day Two

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  1. ELIT 46A – Day Two

  2. Olympic Opening

  3. Idealized Past – our entire course

  4. Danny Boyle sees England as the island ruled by Prospero in The Tempest Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. • Spoken in Shakespeare’s Tempest by Caliban (a colonized subject on the point of rebellion)

  5. Stops before industrialization

  6. What makes us human?Elizabeth Kolbert in a recent New Yorker magazine. • From the archeological records, it’s inferred that Neanderthals evolved in Europe or Western Asia and spread out from there, stopping when they reached water or some other significant obstacle but our ancestors did not stop – they kept going, against all logic. This is one of the most basic ways modern humans differ from Neanderthals and, in Pääbo’s view, also one of the most intriguing. If the defining characteristic of modern humans is a sort of Faustian restlessness, or “madness,” then, by Pääbo’s account, there must be some sort of Faustian gene.

  7. In this class: • Beowulf • Pardoner • Wife of Bath • Sir Gawain • Dr. Faustus • Sir Walter Ralegh • Queen Elizabeth • Rosalind • Orlando • Satan • Adam • a sort of Faustian restlessness, or “madness,”

  8. Compare to other cultures • Gilgamesh: Sumerian Civilization • Inanna : descended to the underworld to get back her beloved • Egypt: the story of Isis traveling all over the known world to find Osiris • Homer: • Iliad and Odyssey • Japanese: stories of Momotaro • China: Journey to the West (Monkey, Tripitaka, Horse, Sandman, etc.) • India: Baghavad Gita and Ramayana • British Isles: Beowulf

  9. What makes a hero? • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5.

  10. What makes an epic? • 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5.

  11. According to Joseph Campbell, the typical “Hero’s Journey”

  12. A heroic epic written in Old English

  13. Here’s what it says

  14. ELIT 46Beowulf Themes Structure Ways of Looking at Beowulf

  15. Zits doesBeowulf

  16. Hear how the scop would have told the story • From the British Library

  17. Why start with Shield? • Parallel to Beowulf, who is going to win fame himself • Funeral – so the shape of the epic is clear Funeral • Feast • Battle • Feast • Battle • Feast • 50 years • Dragon Battle • Funeral • Heorot (civilization) vs. Barbarism (Hrothgar vs. Grendel) and Barbarism is winning

  18. Which means • To read the original with translation next, click on this.

  19. Look at Unferth vs. Beowulf

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