Author: wschoen

Refinement

I have discovered the "hard way" that when I look at the Blog posts under the various categories, the program tells me when it was posted but not who posted. Everyone is identified in the main Blog just not within the categories where I plan to  look for the development of your group’s assignment.  Therefore, please identify yourself at the beginning or end of each post. I realize that this will lead to double identification on the open blog but it will help the grading process which I assume you will all appreciate.
Thanks,

Walter

Categories for Hodge Analysis

I have added the categories for your groups to use in the Hodge Analysis. Also, I have posted an additional Hodge Analysis page that I have labeled, "Template." You can "edit" this page for your final submission or you can create your own page for your group as Paul Kappel did for his group in the Aristotelian Analysis. He told us how to go about this in class today. Either way is acceptable. This information is in Blackboard as well.

Medea – Plot Actions

I’m going to keep working on these, but this is what I have so far… List of Actions

  •  Nurse grieves for Medea’s fate.
  •  Nurse foresees/ worries about Medea’s reaction to Jason’s wedding.
  •  Tutor warns Nurse that Creon is going to exile Medea.
  • Nurse sends children inside to hide from Medea.
  • Nurse warns that overstepping your bounds/ having too much will get you punished by the gods.
  • Chorus attempt to sooth Medea’s grief.
  • Medea prays to/ demands that the gods revenge her.
  • Medea petitions the Chorus not to reveal her plan, Chorus agrees. 
  • Creon exile’s Medea and her children
  • Medea tricks Creon into letting her and the children stay one more day.
  • Medea plans/ convinces herself to poison Creon’s daughter and Jason.
  • Chorus supports Medea and her decision.
  • Jason offers Medea financial support while she and the children are exiled. 
  • Medea accuses Jason of being an unfaithful liar. 
  • Jason defends himself against Medea’s accusations.
  • Chorus curses Jason that he will die unloved and friendless. 
  • Aegeus pledges to house Medea and children during exile.
  • Medea formulates/ solidifies her plan to kill Creon’s daughter and her children.
  • Medea sends the Nurse to bring Jason.
  • Chorus disagrees with Medea/ reveals drawbacks to plan.
  • Medea tricks Jason into letting the children stay
  • Medea sends the children to Creon’s daughter with the poison presents.
  • Chorus accuses everyone (Jason, Creon’s daughter, Medea) of being wrong.
  • Medea debates, and then strengthens her resolve to kill her children.
  • Messenger enters and warns Medea to flee (crisis). 
  • Chorus begs Helios (sun-god) to stop Medea from killing her children (his great-grandchildren).
  • Medea kills her sons (climax). 
  • Jason discovers his dead sons (recognition).
  • Jason mourns his sons/wants to bury them (reversal). 
  • Medea flies away in the chariot with the bodies of her dead children.
  • Jason exits to bury Creon and his daughter (new stasis). 

Test Post (text only)

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned to make a living but not a life. We write more but learn less. We plan more but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information but we communicate less and less.Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (Thank you, George!)