Cultural / Artistic

Notes from class. This is me trying to get used to keeping up with the Prof.

Cultural

• Average American thinks of sex every 7 minutes. Average Aborigine... once every 2 years (hmm...) .
• Christianity and other religions control minds (Thought Police!)
• Money changes everything
• Real is only what your five senses know. Intuition becomes so far removed as we move from an enlightening culture to a capitalist one.
• Reality becomes the least interesting piece of property or chore or idea (laundry, bills, love, dvds, internet)
• Internet- reality becomes virtual reality. (letters and social scenes become emails and social networks)
• Buy everything- love, happiness, more money, religion...

Artistic

• Tabula Rasa - clean slate (John Locke)
• Strinberg and Ibsen (Norwegian playwrights who hated each other but both decided theatre should look real)
• Henry James (my love) helped pave the way for realistic fiction
• Charles Dodgeson wrote Alice in Wonderland to escape the boring mathematics of his every day life (to feel freedom)

Pathetic Falacy- when the outside world (or object) represents the feeling of the story/character (sunny day = happy mood/atmosphere). Can be reversed (sunny day = misery)