Well Professor Sexson gave us a couple ideas/commands for this blog so I'll do my best to incorporate them into this Blog.
First off Professor Sexson asked us to google "Green World" and see what we come up with. The first couple entries it pops up are mostly what i would have expected to find natural seed companies and pleas to plant more trees because the earth is losing all its trees. The third result is where this whole operation starts to get interesting. Green World is the name of an album and song by the band Suicide Machines. Here are the lyrics to Green World. The band plays ska music which is a style of punk rock and if you want to learn more you can google it or check wikipedia and you'll find some very interesting stuff.
Suicide Machines Green World Lyrics:
If ignorance becomes you, then subscribe to the masses and
Just place your trust in the ALMIGHTY. Dollar
seeing green is seeing red, consumed by lust, consumed
by greed, its what they want, not what they need
if seeing green is seeing red
then seeing green is seeing death!
Take your green world, I reject your green world
Never, I couldn't. Cause everybody
knows that i just don't want it
Take your green world, I reject your green world
Never, I couldn't.
Cause everybody knows that there's no truth in it
Reject your wealth, defy your false pwer
makes you think you're so deep
but there's no truth in it
Lyrics: Green World, Suicide Machines [end]
Now i'm going to talk about how Mythology operates in As You Like it. I would like to talk a little about the Cain and Able biblical reference in AYLI. This my is timeless and still permeates many of the modern works of literature we read today. For my multicultural literature class we are reading Kite Runner and it also revolves around the Cain and Able myth as well. Its protagonist Hassan even goes as far as to invoke another biblical myth that of Abraham and Isaac. Hassan says that maybe he has to sacrifice his best friend much like Abraham almost had to do with Isaac. So there are many ways that mythology functions in AYLI. The one i find most interesting is how takes the mythology and makes usable within the context of the story. I definitely think Shakespeare knew what he was doing when he pick and chose certain biblical and mythical stories to mirror in AYLI. By no means do i believe he did this without thinking of the far reaching affects and ways in which people would read into this story based upon the examples and ideas he presented them with.
If ignorance becomes you, then subscribe to the masses and
Just place your trust in the ALMIGHTY. Dollar
seeing green is seeing red, consumed by lust, consumed
by greed, its what they want, not what they need
if seeing green is seeing red
then seeing green is seeing death!
Take your green world, I reject your green world
Never, I couldn't. Cause everybody
knows that i just don't want it
Take your green world, I reject your green world
Never, I couldn't.
Cause everybody knows that there's no truth in it
Reject your wealth, defy your false pwer
makes you think you're so deep
but there's no truth in it
Lyrics: Green World, Suicide Machines [end]
Now i'm going to talk about how Mythology operates in As You Like it. I would like to talk a little about the Cain and Able biblical reference in AYLI. This my is timeless and still permeates many of the modern works of literature we read today. For my multicultural literature class we are reading Kite Runner and it also revolves around the Cain and Able myth as well. Its protagonist Hassan even goes as far as to invoke another biblical myth that of Abraham and Isaac. Hassan says that maybe he has to sacrifice his best friend much like Abraham almost had to do with Isaac. So there are many ways that mythology functions in AYLI. The one i find most interesting is how takes the mythology and makes usable within the context of the story. I definitely think Shakespeare knew what he was doing when he pick and chose certain biblical and mythical stories to mirror in AYLI. By no means do i believe he did this without thinking of the far reaching affects and ways in which people would read into this story based upon the examples and ideas he presented them with.
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