Week 1

Friday January 19

ANTIGONE:

Invloves conflict between:

1. a man and a woman
2. the young and the old
3. an individual and society
4. living and the dead
5. humans and the god(s)

originary: going back to the origins of things (going back to creation)

Class theme: NEW VS OLD

It is more important to ask "What is old?" than "What is new?"

Because the Trojans weren't allowed to talk about anything current (social or political), they would show their feelings opposing or supporting what was currently going on by using things that had happened long ago. For example, they would show how they disagreed being in a war, by making creating a comentary on an old war. They would talk about something old that pertained to current events.

"Why do most people think that whatever is new is the most important thing, when it is really the old that is important?" ~George Steiner

Simone Weil