Monday April 30

Individual Presentations 3:

Luke Klompien:

• counter argument for the men in Lysistrata
• men love power and sex
• he found nothing tangible
• he found that the reason that women need men is for security
• statistic: more people have been in love than have belly buttons, have been intoxicated, and wear underwear
• "I shall have life" all the pain that we go through is worth it because we learn something
• "If you do something good for your mind, your body and for someone else you will be good" ~ the man at the bank

Ashley Kirchhof:

• "The Homeric Hymn to Demeter"
• about the Eleusinian Mysteries- women's initiation rights
• "A women born" by Adrien Rich
• female quests are defined by fertility
• it shows the symbolic death and rebirth of women
• all of us have both the male and female quests

Melissa Kelsy:

• about scapegoats
• culture fascinated by scapegoating people
• amazon: 39,000 books about this
• 3.4 million hits on Google
• image: faces on the goat
• "scapegoats are more welcome than a solution"
• 5 ways to avoid being a scapegoat:

1. avoid being the new guy in town
2. be on time and attend everything
3. avoid taking the winning shot- fake an injury
4. avoid being different in any way
5. be well liked or blame someone else

Brian Judge:

• scapegoats
• inability to take responsibility
• biblical- Leviticus- tell it their sins and push it off a cliff
• Emperor Nero: set Rome on fire~ blame the emperor, who blamed a religious group
• pick a person to blame and brings everyone together (unifying)
• past possessing the present- happened then and now

Alex Johnson:

• 5 Antigone conflicts in the top 100 movies:

1. individual and society: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. old and young: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
3. men and women: My Fair Lady
4. living and the dead: Frankenstein
5. men and gods: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Danielle Heinle:

• the triple goddess
• compared it to her grandma, mom and herself
• viewed as 3 separate women, or 1 being that has 3 aspects
• pagans believe that the triple goddess is very high up and important

John Horner:

• science fiction as an extension of mythology
• Frank Herbert's Dune: Paul Atreides as Tiresias because he can see the future
• main problem is that when you know the future you are trapped by it
• primary difference- there are gods and goddesses
• superman is a mythical hero

Sereta Heser:

• The Doors and Jim Morrison and Dionysus
• named after 'The Doors of Perceptions' ~ Aldous Huxley
• 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' ~William Blake
• 'The End' song from Oedipus
• he created a frenzy with the women
• to become a classic you must invoke the classics

books to look up:

'The White Goddess' by Robert Graves

'The Scapegoat' by Rene Girard