Ninth Class

Nov. 23rd

Agency

Parataxis

Obscenity

-Theatre/drama

> performance > example > interpretation

> audience / money

target > specific audience (person in the audience)

inclusion / exclusion

communal event > ritual / ceremonial

venue

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

feeling time go by

closer to death

This is for you Anna:

> text moves quickly

> performers move

> sections

> difficult to visualize

> non-linear

> fragment*

> thematical organize > associative lateral

rhizomatic > Deleuze & Guattari

Poses a challenge to unity / coherence

form /content > how do they work together?

postmodernity

fragment*

Parataxis > this play is parataxical

the opposite of hypotaxis

hypotaxical is focused and tied together, as like an essay

Agate > hypotactical > narrative

> 2 stories

> revenge

> "go to sleep" > just ignore it

motive > Anna's murder

> murder as trigger

> multiple motives

> education discouraged

> barmaid / low income

> seems like bad mother

> rape

> cycle of abuse > culture of systemic abuse

(cliché) > alcoholic father

> sent to a home

> "she's one of those" / type of person

> listed in the 1000 sins > ails > suggestive of martyrdom

Grabowski's Fiancée > blindness

Both Lucretia and Agate are both myths

myth's have an ideological foundation

foundation for a culture

didactic

lessons > teach by example

the function of the story is hegemonic when the mother tells the daughter

myth > revision / intervention

content

structure / form

> cliché

stories about the murder of children could be considered cliché

> marianne's life

> feminism as man-hating reciprocal violence

> "strangers with candy"

> talking as flirting > framing relationships

> precious / innocent children

> cheering mob

> male / female > murder / victim

murderer > punishment / difficulty / responsibility

victim as murderer > man > revenge

> children > "Grabowski's child"

> suicide > ownership of body

> only option?

> virtue (preservation of virtue)

suicide > canonicity

> experience

Talk about husband treating wife > mattress comment, etc.

- relationship > men / women

- power; abuse;

- (light tone > common) problematic

Marianne denial for all three perhaps

Jenny & Eena > sharing pain > minimizing

Maria > hesitation > pain > embarrassment > fear & guilt

-talk vs. response

'once you know, you have to do something

becomes a responsibility and a burden

victimhood can be comforting

Agency > calling the cops

Ob Skene

> violence > never in greek theatre

> the scene is obscene