Conversation Piece - Monday, December 8, 2008
"Oh, come not near me, sir; I shall defile you.
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Wholeness or Separate Parts
I saw this passage as relating to what we talked about in class last week and seeing the society as a whole or in separate parts. I am not sure if I read this correctly, but what I read this to be was that if the society was doing well then the community was a whole and everyone benefited and everyone was seen as a whole, the community "is like a common fountain". However, if something that poisons the community then the society must break up into its separate parts and divide into its separate functions and it loses itself as a wholeness. So I think that this passage is interpreting community as a combination of wholeness and separate parts.
