Forgive me, I took a break to read the Bacchae* and just missed midnight!<\/p>\n
Our master was in despair. I keep revisiting this, imagining the scene as a painting in the style of Caravaggio. \u00a0The state rides steady once again<\/em><\/p>\n I remembered that this ship metaphor was used by Plato to describe the state. Though to him, the navigator would obviously be a philosopher king rather than a regular old king like Kreon.<\/p>\n Nomos vs. Physis<\/em><\/p>\n What should one act upon? Laws of the state have their obvious repercussions but how can we face ourselves if we abandon our morals to yield to the state? Antigone chose to transcend the state and buries her brother Polyneices. Her story ends with her death, but she becomes a martyr of sorts, as a person who would not allow laws of the state to force her to go against her conscience, while Kreon is left with a dead wife and son. What is Sophocles’ position here?<\/p>\n More things to consider as I skim through a second time = more ideas generated.<\/p>\n *some nice overlap happening with arts one and my other courses, though, understanding Dionysus is just extra fun — I doubt that knowledge would be handy for the essay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forgive me, I took a break to read the Bacchae* and just missed midnight! Our master was in despair. We obeyed him and looked inside. We saw her down at the tomb’s end, hanged by the neck, a noose made from her linen robe; and him, his arms around her waist; bewept his bride and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kthai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe obeyed him and looked inside.
\nWe saw her down at the tomb’s end,
\nhanged by the neck,
\na noose made from her linen robe;
\nand him, his arms around her waist;
\nbewept his bride and their lost love,
\nand his father who has caused this.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSuch an awfully sad and beautiful image.<\/p>\n