I am just going to say it I don't like this. I started to read it and talked about hawks catching a rabbit and the babies falling out, and then this man sacrifices his daughter. The phrase, "Cry, cry for death, but good win out in glory in the end," has some type of importance since it is stated three times on two pages. So I sit here and read this and I begin to become weirdly interested with this stuff going on. To my surprise I get through all of the reading required and I am thinking, "What in the world did I just read?" I am really glad we are going over this in class tomorrow so maybe I can understand this.
I did pick up a few things in the book so I at least got something. The first thing that stuck out to me is when the battlefield is being described. Their heads were full of lice, they were getting soaking wet and they were in ruts. Then it states, "It's over for us, over for them. The dead can rest and never rise again." This particular piece reminded me of some kind of battle scene in World War Two, which I find crazy because these two events were quite a few thousand years apart, but they were still similar. The second thing is when Clytaemnestra is saying how when a woman is at home with her husband gone the loneliness is terrible. I really feel like it kind of down graded her a bit and made her sound like some kind of "damsel in distress" who cannot do anything without her husband, but like Dr. Downs said women weren't treated the best during these times. I also feel though she was being a drama queen and was being over dramatic about the situation.
I believe why I don't like this is because I don't understand its. What I did understand though I did find really interesting even if it was just two or three things.
P.S. I commented on Cade and Dakota's post.
~ Brenna
I did pick up a few things in the book so I at least got something. The first thing that stuck out to me is when the battlefield is being described. Their heads were full of lice, they were getting soaking wet and they were in ruts. Then it states, "It's over for us, over for them. The dead can rest and never rise again." This particular piece reminded me of some kind of battle scene in World War Two, which I find crazy because these two events were quite a few thousand years apart, but they were still similar. The second thing is when Clytaemnestra is saying how when a woman is at home with her husband gone the loneliness is terrible. I really feel like it kind of down graded her a bit and made her sound like some kind of "damsel in distress" who cannot do anything without her husband, but like Dr. Downs said women weren't treated the best during these times. I also feel though she was being a drama queen and was being over dramatic about the situation.
I believe why I don't like this is because I don't understand its. What I did understand though I did find really interesting even if it was just two or three things.
P.S. I commented on Cade and Dakota's post.
~ Brenna
i reallyh like that you brought the trojan war into a modern light. I too agree the description is very WWII-esque. Ecclesiastes and Fallout fans agree, war never changes. what i found interesting is that 'the lands and armies hunered for each other' showing they're almost yearning for the fight as one would yearn for a lover.
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