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Western Literature

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week11

• Drama

Drama is fictional,narrative ,in performance

Drama is the specific mode of narrative, typically fictional, represented in performance. The term comes from the Greek word δρᾶμα, drama, meaning action, which is derived from the verb δράω, draō, meaning to do or to act. The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception.The early modern tragedy Hamlet(1601) by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus the King (c. 429 BC) by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama. A modern example is Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) by Eugene O’Neill.

• paraphrase(v): to retell your own words.
• Semele 

in Greek mythology, daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.

Certain elements of the cult of Dionysos and Semele came from the Phrygians. These were modified, expanded and elaborated by the Ionian Greek invaders and colonists. Herodotus, who gives the account of Cadmus, estimates that Semele lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BCE. In Rome, the goddess Stimula was identified as Semele.

• Athena

Athena was born from Zeus's head,so she became the god of wisdom.

She is the one of three patron virgins.

• virgin birth 童身胎
  
• Dionysus
  

Dionysus was born between legs of his father.

• 文學4大重要:

1.plot

2.character

3.dialogue

4.sympathy

• three questions we should think about:

1.what's that?

2.what's that for?

3.why should we care about?

for example: in The Great Gastsby

1.Who is Gatsby?

2.Why is he great?

3.Why should we care about him?

Sara: If personality is an unbroken series of successful gesture then there is something gorgeous.