ENGB30 Lecture Notes - Stage Machinery, Lightning
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Self-contained; appropriate: he was proportional and seemly (53) Gentle/ kind: values peace and quiet (55, atlas was kind hearted (82, heracles suddenly remembered the manner of infinite gentleness with which atlas resumed the burden (89) Reflective: zeus worried about atlas thinking (57, he saved himself in his lonely hours by thinking (66) Atlas puts down the cosmos (150: interpreting atlas"s action of putting his hands over his ears . He"s expecting something big to happen; something like a lightning bolt from zeus or something. He doesn"t believe that he can get away with it and without punishment. He was punished because he agreed to do it. What is the key element that leads to heracles" and atlas"s different ending: their abiblity to think. Atlas" ability to quietly think things through. Allows him to go beyond what it written for him. Heracles: moment where he almost got it (44)