the maids, jean genet (trans. bernard frechtman) // elektra, sophokles (trans. anne carson).
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Çabuk hüküm veren, çabuk yanılır.
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"I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth."
- Anne Carson
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Homer: This is my OC Odysseus he’s a trickster
Sophocles: What a compelling villain
Homer: No!! He’s a hero!!!!
Romans: Um, no, he’s totally problematic, he’s definitely evil
Homer: No!!!!!! He’s a good guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Modern readers: Oh so he’s like, an antihero, cool
Homer: Absolutely not. Now you’re just making up words
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your heart’s so hot
Sophokles, from ‘Antigone’, tr. Anne Carson
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[ID: 8 quotes and 2 pieces of art. The quotes read as follows, 1: “‘You’re all I’ve got now,’ he added, ‘Let’s be off. I’ve come to you. We’re cursed together, so let’s take the road together!’ / His eyes were glittering. ‘Like a man insane!’ Sonya thought, in her turn.” 2: “Orestes- Our cause is lost. / Pylades- Then I’m lost too. Friends share such things.” 3: “Why do you wave me off? You fear to pollute me? I don’t care about that. I’ll share your bad luck, I shared your good luck once.” 4: “‘I mean, look: there you go crying and putting your arms round me again - well, why are you doing that? Because I couldn’t hold out on my own and went running off to someone else in order to unburden myself: ‘You suffer too, and then I’ll feel better!’ And you can love a villain like that?’ / ‘But you are suffering, aren’t you?’ Sonya cried.” 5: “Orestes- O my poor man! My troubles are really your troubles, it seems. / Pylades- But I’m no Menelaos. I can bear this.” 6: “Orestes- Oh girl. How I pity the dark life you live. / Elektra- No one else has ever pitied me, you know. / Orestes- No one has ever been part of you grief.” 7: “Theseus- Why does he hide his head in his robe? / Amphitryon- Shame before you eyes. Shame before your kinship. Shame for the blood of his sons. / Theseus- But if I came to share his grief? Uncover him.” 8: “‘You’re a strange one, Sonya,’ he said. ‘You out your arms round me and kiss me after I’ve told you a thing like that. You don’t know what you’re about.’ / ‘There’s no one, no one in the world more unhappy than you are now,’ she exclaimed in a kind of frenzy, oblivious.” The pieces of art are as follows, 1: A painting of two vague, human figures, done in cool colors. They are embracing. 2: 3 human figures in a misty, expressive scene. They are closeby each other, perhaps walking together. End ID.]
“We’re Cursed Together” | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | An Oresteia - Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) | Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) | Massage - Elizabeth Glaessner | Medicine - Mary Herbert
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sen birisini istiyorsun, ama istediğin kesinlikle ben değilim. sana verebileceğim hiçbir şey yok.
iris murdoch - kara prens
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Alicent Hightower & Rhaenyra Targaryen, House of the Dragon, 1x07, 1x10 // Sophokles, Elektra (trans. Anne Carson)
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