Hello! For your Week 7 writing, you have two options.

Hello! For your Week 7 writing, you have two options. If you have not watched the Week 7 video lecture, please do so before you complete your journal entry. 300 words minimum

Option 1: main quest

1) Summarize what the video lecture says about Eros, lack, and the quest pattern: how can we use these three terms to relate the story of Jason and the Argonauts to ancient Greek beliefs about the origin of the world?

2) Pick a non-ancient (i.e. modern) story: fictional, real, somewhere in between. Reduce the complexity of the story to a simple formula (story pattern), as we did with Jason and the Argonauts & Star Wars

-E.g. Star Wars = “In the many Star Wars movies and other media, a basic pattern is that a young person starts out by lacking knowledge of who s/he is and then the story eliminates this lack of knowledge as s/he learns who s/he really is”

3) Relate this story or narrative pattern to a belief or set of beliefs about the world that is/are prevalent today

-E.g. Star Wars = “the story pattern of Star Wars resembles a common belief in modern societies that when we start life, we don’t know who we *really* are, and our lives unfold as a search for who we *really* are”

-It does not have to be a belief you hold

-NOTE: YOU CANNOT DO STAR WARS (I’ve already done that one)

Option 2: side quest

1) Pick three shorter stories from the Week 7 reading

-Anything that happens before the Quest for the Golden fleece

-Anything that happens during the Quest, but is a distraction from or obstacle to the fulfillment of that quest

2) Summarize these stories in brief

3) Identify common elements between your three stories

-Do they share plot patterns?

-Are the characters related to each other?

-Do they have similar themes?

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^ that is a week 7 video lecture, i posted the link so hopefully you have access to it!