Your Own Personal Satan

        My personal hell would be a place of deep suffering. I would be hung upside down by my ankles and punched in the testicles repeatedly endlessly. It never becomes monotonous, each punch feels just as bad as the last. All the while listening to a Nicki minaj song featuring lil wayne. People admitted into this hell are people who have committed adultery, intentional murder, incest, and other unforgivable sins. Hell is designed for the sickest of the sick. Therefore the punishments will be the sickest of the sick.
        In order to get into hell one must commit a sin of massive proportions. This can be intentional murder, theft, adultery, incest, gluttony, rape, greed, fraud, and other major sins. These sins are unforgivable and deserve the punishment of hell. Minor sins may be partially forgiven. With some time, minor sinners may repent and finally reach heaven. But the Major sinners are never forgiven.
        The punishments are more psychological than painful. Although physical pain is present. Hell will look into your mind and find your psychological weakness, and use it as a tool for your misery. Whether you are afraid of heights, insects, snakes, spiders, tight spaces, or loneliness. Hell is infinite and inescapable. It is the ultimate, and final punishment.
        Hell's environment adapts to each persons punishment. It could be a steamy hot jungle filled with insects and vicious creatures. No life supporting resources, so you feel pain of hunger and thirst, yet you cannot die. It could be being forced to crawl through a cement pipe, with barely enough room to crawl. Nothing to bandage your hands and knees which are constantly torn open from the crawl. Hell adapts to each individual.

        No one may escape. Hell is for the ones who have committed sin to the point of no return. For the ones who can never be forgiven. Someone who deserves hell deserves the eternal torment. Those who has the heart to do something that would put them in hell deserve their heart to be broken down in pain and tortured

        A symbol to represent my hell would be a hydra. Because of the multiple different types of pain coming at you at once. A hydra's number of heads vary from 5 to 100, depending on who you are reading. The hydra represents multiple threats converging on one target. which is a good analogy to the multiple levels of pain and torment in hell.

        

         The evilest of the evil are in my hell. Vicious people who have no desire other than to watch the world burn. People who think the best way to perfection is the mass murder of a people. People like Hitler and Pol Pot. People whose views are so corrupted that they think killing is the way to utopia. People whose "happiness" involves taking others's happiness away.

reservoir doge

This past week we worked on our tragic hero posters, ours featured a gun taking up the top and left part of the poster. The rest we filled with blood, pictures and duct tape. The overall process of making the poster was pretty good and efficient, we all brought supplies and did our part. And the end result, I thought, was good.
The movie, Reservoir Dogs was a pretty good fit for the tragic hero format, Mr. Orange starts in a place of semi-status, he's an undercover cop that's very cocky. His Hamartia is his pride. His reversal of fortune is when he gets shot by a civilian. His reversal of intention is then when he shoots that civilian dead. The entire flipping movie is a scene of suffering. Catastrophe occurs after everyone shoots each other in a mexican standoff

Shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize

This week we are starting our group posters. I finally watched my movie, Reservoir Dogs, I thought it was really good. It takes place in the aftermath of a diamond heist in an abandoned warehouse, where a character lies dying of a bullet wound. One gangster goes insane and tortures a cop to Stuck in The Middle With You, and four kill each other at once in a rather climactic ending. Overall, it was a good movie, I thought it was going to be a more macabre movie than it was, but I'm okay without much gore.

The Tragic hero we chose was Mr. Orange (they had been given color names so as to not give up their identity). He was an undercover cop who ratted out the heist, but his plan went sour when a civilian shot him in the gut during a hijack. He spent the third quarter of the movie unconscious and having flashbacks to his undercover training. and finally in his dying moments he confesses to Mr. White, his only sympathizer, that he is in fact a cop.

WARNING: Video contains severed ears, poor dancing, and spoilers

Groupies

This is the week we start the group project for the Aristotilian Tragedy. I have to say, I really don't like group projects. They just never turn out the way I want to and they're never a real representation of me. There's also the workload situation, work is distributed unevenly. And also you have to jam all of the work into class time. If you want to get anything extra done, you have to do it outside of school, which means doing it by yourself or organizing a meeting. I don't want to see anybody outside of school, i don't want to be there and neither do they, its uncomfortable.

I like individual projects because the product is entirely my brainchild. I also don't have to socialize and interact, which confuses me whilst thinking, I'm not a big multitasker. It also leaves me to complete the project when I please, (or procrastinate as I please). Individual projects are just a lot more comfortable for me.

May they all perish in our present fate or one more hateful still...

Let the depressing part of the year begin. This semester in LA we are going to read Oedipus rex and Dante's Inferno. I can't say I'm very excited, I've never been crazy about sad stories. I like to not be depressed all the time. However, I know that they are supposed to be great works of writing and that makes me somewhat intrigued to find out how they are.
I also do like greek mythology. I find all of the gods and journeys and such pretty interesting. Which is why I'm a little bit more into Oedipus Rex than I normally would be. I also liked the Odyssey last year. But this, of course, is much different than the Odyssey.

Swollen Feet, The King

a.     Oedipus the Man

-Oedipus was a overly proud and determined man. He was determined to find the killer of the Previous king laius and that led to him finding out it was himself. In that and finding out he was married to his mother, he loses his pride.

b.     Oedipus the Myth

-Oedipus was born to Lauis and Jocasta of Thebes. His parents find out that their son will kill the father and marry the mother in the future. So Oedipus is ordered to be killed. However the shepherd doesn’t kill the baby, instead he gives it to the king and queen of Corinth. Which results in the chain of events in the play

c.      Oedipus the Play

-The play of Oedipus the king takes place after he kills his father and has four kids with his mother. He is still ignorant of the fact that they are his mother and father. The play was written by Sophocles in around 430 B.C.

d.     Tragedy-

-Tragedy is the situation in which a hero performs an action that has serious consequences while being presented in an attractive fashion. Aristotilian tragedies must be whole, no cliffhangers or “episodic” endings. They also must be complex and fairly lengthy.

e.     Hubris-Hubris is an excessive pride. It often causes a hero to ignore a moral warning. Ignoring the moral warning eventually leads to the tragic hero’s demise.

f.      Dramatic irony

- Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows a detail that the characters do not. In the play Oedipus Rex, everyone knows the myth of Oedipus marrying his mother, but the Oedipus himself, in the story, does not know that. This effect really draws audiences in because they know the result but they can’t look away.

g.     Sophocles

-The second of 3 great greek tragedy writers, Sophocles was most famous for his work on oedipus rex. He won many awards for his writing in competitions and he also bested Aeschylus in a dramatic competition

h.     Teiresias

- Teiresias was a Famous prophet of Thebes. He walked in on Athena bathing, so she blinded him, however, she also gave him the gift of prophecy in his blindness. So he was used in many greek myths as a prophet.

i.       Fate

-In greek mythology, fate is always inevitable. Heroes hear a prophecy and they want to deny it and try to go against it, which results in bad consequences for the hero. Fate is common in the structure of all greek literature.

j.       Greek theater

- Greek theater was thought to originate around 700s B.C.. Greek theater only included male actors who portrayed comedic or tragic myths on stage according to a playwright. There were three famous tragic playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

Baraka Maraca

The movie Baraka is pretty inspirational. I can relate it to my first semester of advanced world lit because it provokes the thought of the world being one person, one being, yet different. Each Religious ritual is unique and special in its own way, but everyone in the world is at peace when they are with their beliefs. Which is my argument to the relevance of religion, but that is a different topic. one particular scene that evoked feelings from me was that whirling dervish scene.

I think that this was really cool because of the looks on their faces, they appear to be having an out of body experience. Like they are up talking with their religious leader or whatnot while their bodies dance on the floor like wind up ballerinas. Unlike Brussat, i think the things that impacted me the most were religion and the worlds practices.

        The film begins with scenes of bathing monkeys and about thirty minutes of religious rituals and peace. Then the music really picks up and they show time lapses of asian cites and egg factories. one parallel I saw here was how the scene of the chickens ends, then they go straight into manhattan where people are packed into monotonous everyday routines that we force ourselves to do, much like we forced the chicks in the film down a shute with burned beaks. The fast pace of music causes a feeling of unrest in the world where they show more disturbing images like cities, poverty, and destruction. I think that the film is attempting to inform audiences about the massive cultural diversity in the world. And also how the world is a blessing and is not to be over tampered with