Theory and Practice of Myth

As mentioned in class i think we could have a lovely time discussing the different interpretations of Zombies? Dictionary Definition: World English Dictionary zombie or zombi  (ˈzɒmbɪ) — n  , pl -bies , -bis 1. a person who is or appears to be lifeless, apathetic, or totally lacking in independent judgment;automaton   The first and original concept of Zombies comes from Haitian folklore of corpses reanimated by means of magic. The first modern thought of Zombies that comes to mind […]

I don’t have anything insightful to say that hadn’t already been said in class on Wednesday with the whole myth and ritual discussion, but here’s my contribution to myths: Bettermyths.com! If ya’ll go here  http://bettermyths.com/387-2/#link-for-greekroman  you’ll be directed to the category of Greek and Roman myths on a website called BetterMyths by a guy named […]

Myth v Legend Hopefully the link works here. I was watching some modern myth making aka the nba playoffs and I saw this commercial. Apparently we have been going about the comparison of myth and legend all wrong and the real difference is a cape. I don’t really have much intellectual to say about the […]

So I’ve been playing around with ways to organize my paper, I think I’ll go with the Menelaus/Odysseus topic. What would be a good way to go about it? I’m thinking the best way would just to use the good old expository method, get my point across simply and directly, but I’m open to other […]

Rather than write about the same post here is a joint post, also spoiler alerts…lots of them. To those who haven’t seen the show, fix that and sorry for the wall of nonsense to the uninitiated   We keep talking about the show in class for super academic reasons, but just in case we needed […]

Martha and I had a good conversation about the possibility that Lamarck might have been right (that characteristics we pick up during our lives can get encoded into our DNA and passed on to our offspring).  Remember, this is important for Freud’s take on the Oedipus myth: that it’s an expression not just of a […]

I know this is from week 1, but it’s been eating at me. So the more I’ve thought on this, the more I do see similarities between the Dude and Sisyphus. Neither really care. Sisyphus is fine, I dare say happy, with pushing his boulder up the incline. And the Dude, well he just “abides”. […]

Reading Camus’ story of the Myth of Sisyphus was very interesting to me. My initial reaction was similar to Dawn Eve’s, because surely a man doomed to forever fail at a simple task over and over again is not happy. However, when I got to the line, “His rock is his thing,” I stopped, and […]

The Myth of Sisyphus of Camus was ridiculous (partly because the French are always ridiculous). Camus says that Sisyphus is “happy” with his eternal punishment because he keeps “going back to his rock.” Firstly, nobody is happy with an eternal punishment, Sisyphus is damned to roll a rock up a hill and have it fall […]

The reading on the categorization of these types of stories goes into great detail about the various characteristics that mark a story as a myth, legend or folktale. I think that these categories are fairly arbitrary and pointless however; more importantly, they add nothing to the stories or our understanding, in my opinion. Although he […]