ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Externality
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The serpent represents the following situation: in the historical experience of humans, every individual finds evil already therethe always-already-there of evil is the other aspect of evil for which nevertheless i am responsible. The serpent continues imagery of goddess of chaos and generation in ancient mesopatamia tiamat. Patriarchal narratives discussion: adam noah story, story of abraham, story of jacob, story of joseph. Myth is continuous with history story of jacob: important to move from episodic to continuous narrative, gilgamesh very episodic, though moments clearly, odyssey clear aesthetic idea distinguished. The jacob story: symmetrical structure (chiasm: encounter b/w jacob and esau, encounter w/god and departure from home, acquisition of wives, leah and rachel, d. fertility: birth of jacob"s children, birth of joseph. Jacob has characteristics of a trickster, but has sympathy of the narration. Deceiver is then deceived tricked by leah +rachel"s father. Wrestling scene b/w jacob and man in desert.
