This was a week of some powerful women, Antigone, Medea, and Jesmyn Ward. At the beginning of the week, the class finished up our dissection of "Antigo- Nick", an Anne Carson translation of "Antigone" by Sophokles. What an interesting book. This read was full of eclectic images, by Biance Stone, that made reading the most interesting I have ever done. The print was overshadowed with image that may or may not have anything to do with the words. But you will have to read this intriguing book for yourself and blog back your thoughts. The story, as we known, is ancient but Carson's translation, full of contemporary expression and slang, along with the translucent images, made this literary assignment titillating, to say the least.
Mid week, the class started to dialogue about our next powerful woman, "Medea", a playwright written by Euripides and translated by Rex Warner. Futurist Thomas Frey said it best, " Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". All I can say is how true. A story of sorcerer, named Medea, that conspired with her husband, Jason, to bring him to fame and when he got what he wanted, he left her for another woman, a King's daughter, for more power and fame. This did not sit well with Medea. The whole story is about Medea's revenge or justice on her husband. Blinded by revenge, Medea cared less about the consequences of her action to make Jason miserable. She killed his new bride, which caused her father to kill himself out of grief, and murder her two children, also Jason's progeny, to make him pay for the pain and suffering she had endured by his deception. The clincher is that Medea did all this and seceded with no punishment from anyone but the lost of everything by her own hands. Was it worth it? You tell me.
Our final powerful woman of the week is Ms. Jesmyn Ward, author of "Salvage the Bones". I cannot tell you the full story because I have only read up to "The Fifth Day: Salvage The Bones" on page 83. When my instructor, Dr. Jordan Sanderson, said the book would be interesting, I thought he was saying that because he is a reader and a history professor. But he was right. So far, I hypothesize that this story is about a family going through the storm, Hurricane Katrina, by the setting of the story, on the Mississippi and Louisana coast, and all the preparation the father is doing because of a storm he has heard is coming. But there is so much more that I have gotten in just the 83 pages I have read. I feel a theme of a young girl in love with her childhood suitor, who's only interest in her is sex and who has a girlfriend. This blossoming girl has found out that she is pregnant by who she believes the father is her suitor. I see a relationship between a dog and its breeder, which is quite a love story of its own. I see an immersed, drunk father, who lost his wife giving birth to their last child and is the provider of four children, who is more concerned about a storm than concentrating on the dynamism of his children. I will, definitely, keep you informed of the metamorphosis of this story, "Salvage the Bones", by our final powerful woman of the week, Ms. Jesmyn Ward.
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