ENGB30 Lecture Notes - Group For The Study Of Reactive Motion
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Some important changes to the prometheus story in aeschylus"s. Focus on a time after the commencement of prometheus"s punishment rather than before. Alteration of io"s history to the detriment of zeus"s image. Addition of the chorus of nymphs and their final conversion (1253-1265) Romanticism places an emphasis on feeling, individuality, and passion rather than classical form and order, and typically prefer[s] grandeur, picturesqueness, or naturalness to finish and proportion. Reaction against enlightenment belief in scientific rationalism. He is against organized religion with a king at the head. He idealistically believe that human beings are perfect : if we were to remove the flawed system and let people return to the way it was originally then it would be. Prometheus chained to caucusus for 3000 years of sleep- unsheltered hours (1. 12) Prometheus wishes to hear the curse he placed upon jupiter long ago (1. 52ff) No entity in this world dares speak the curse (1. 130; 1. 140;
