Culture & History

It's not a mystery it's history and here's how it go

history
Mill, ON LIBERTY (Harlan Davidson) Marx, COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (Bantam) Nietzsche, A NIETZSCHE READER, Hollingdale ed. Freud, CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS (Norton) Kafka, THE METAMORPHOSIS Eliot, THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS (HBJ Sartre, NO EXIT AND THREE OTHER PLAYS Wagner, RING OF THE NIBELUNG (Norton)

culture
Dead mans day People in the city Zeus: shes a good specimen of the squat black vermin that teem in every cranny of this town (53)

Who sees what

Orestes: Then those blood-smeared walls, these swarms of flies, this reek of shambles and the stifling heat, these empty streets and yonder god with his gashed face, and all these creeping, halfhuman creatures beating their breasts in darkened rooms, and those shriekscan it be that Zeus and his Olympians delight in these? Is this what Zeus sees, or the people see, or who, is it true, to whom? What place is this?

The past
Clytemnestra: You are young, Electra. It is easy for young people, who have not yet had a chance of sinning, to condemn. But wait, my girl; one day you, too, will be trailing after you an inexpiable crime (69) WWSD, WWFD, WWND What does this quote say about: history, present culture, Nazi occupied France, Sartre

hero
Orestes: I am Orestes, your King, son of Agamemnon, and this is my coronation day (122-123) A crime that its doer disowns becomes ownerless 124 Look! Look at the flies! Then all of a sudden they followed in his train What does Orestes do on his coronation day?