Classical Studies 3800F Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Christopher Vogler, Nuremberg Rally, Watergate Scandal

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 3800F
• Professor: Kyle Gervais

Document Summary

The old republic was the republic of legend, greater than distance or time. Once under the wise rule of the senate and the protection of the jedi knights, the republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match. ---- prologue to a new hope [novel: like many roman authors writing after the collapse of the roman republic, Lucas mythologized an old republic and critiqued the evils of the present imperial era by contrasting them with the vanished virtues of a bygone age. ---- malamud 2004: once the republic fell it was replaced with an empire that was addicted to decadence, wealthy, spectacle. The son redeems the father, and luke and anakin skywalker are reconciled just before the death of the father.