Yesterday we watched a ted talk that had nothing to do with tragedy. It was actually really interesting and was my favorite one we've watched. His main argument is that people really aren't in control of themselves as much as they think. He goes on to explain how easily people can be influenced. I really liked his talk and thought it was interesting. Now the tricky part is figuring out how this relates to tragedy. One way it could relate is that for most of it he's talking about a flaw in humans: they can easily be influenced and "tricked' into choosing certain things. In Tragedies the main character always has a flaw, so maybe that's one way they can relate. The fact that humans often don't understand their mental limitations is a tragedy.
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Oedipus is one of the most famous tragics ever written. It's practically the definition of a tragedy. It was written by Shakesp... I mean Sophocles. Like any tragedy, the main character is trying to make a place for himself in the world. But of course he has a flaw. Oedipus's is his destined to kill his father and marry his mother. He tries everything in his power to avoid this, but of course it had already happened and he just didn't know it. As he goes searching around, he finds out and then he gouges out his eyes. Pretty tragic.
We read and close read Arthur Millers blog called Tragedy and the Common man. I'm going to be completely honest, his article is a disaster. I have no idea what hes talking about. I've read it so many times through, each time very carefully and thinking hard. We even talked about it a lot in class. I even have Sana's paper with everything she highlighted on it and I still have literally no clue. I just can not wrap my brain around it. He's talking about tragedy and how there aren't as many of them written today. I have no idea what his main point is. There seems to be no structure to his article. Now some people would read this and talk about how great and smart it is, and how well written it is because he doesn't follow the boring 5 paragraph structure and he doesn't plan state his thesis and stuff. Now I'm fine with that part, but I'd argue that the paper is not well written if almost nobody can understand it. Almost the whole class read it many times, and nobody had any idea what it's talking about. Most people are just BSing it. And were in AP Lit, we're supposed to know what we're doing. But, some people would argue we aren't his audience, and he's only writing for the people extremely into literature and who would be able to understand and appreciate this nonsense. I understand we're there coming from. Anyways, I have read this thing so many times and the only thing I can get from it is tragedy applies to everyone (the common man) and not just kings and rich people. I think he then goes on to back explain why.
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