Day 2: Individual Presentations of The Magus

12/6/11

Jarrod- Parenting and Mythology

• Uranos & Kronos, Saturn ate his children
• Gaia- violent taking sickle and castrating father
• Rhea put Zeus in cave - Zeus got help from Wisdom(Metis)
• "There is no such thing as good parenting" Dr. Sexson
• Freudian psychology

Lucy - divine infatuation Urfe posessessed

• Life is a game of chess- Urfe is a pawn
• Ufe and Oedipus- Appointment in Samara
• return to destiny

Zach- relationships to appeal to audience = mythology compelling (book on beach)

• 3 relationships- Nick and Alison= Cupid and Psyche, Nick and Isis/Lily/Julie = Hades and Persephone, Nick and Conchis = Zeus and Apte

 

• Love and Parenting=== All mythological Dr Sexson

Sam

• Magus is world- political leaders and ungovernable forces of past.
• Obsession with judgement and status quo.
• Ultimately created through myth.
• Constantly searching for definition of itself, all is planned

THE MATRIX!!! 

Quentin

• Hidden agendas/ double lives
• "Heart of Darkness" agenda- veil over all other characters
•  Conchis - Hades conceals identity (deceptive)
• "We are by no means united but we are united" in MAGUS during the removal of the masks in judgement. Exemplifies mystery
• Veil is waiting to be removed but at the same time will never be removed

Jeremy

• Nacholas issue with free will.
• "The Adjustment Bureau" Philip K. Dick 
• never run into girl ever again, people wont let them be together. Main Character is going through somebody else's plan. 
• Humans believe they have free will: only the appearance of free will
• would you have stayed in California or was it destined you would end up here. No switching paths?
• We are in labrynth... all part of giant game

Sherwood

• In Illo Tempore Beginnings, Middles, Ends
• Beginning = Escape, Middles= Painful, Ends = Transformed 
• Beginning is included in the end 

Andy

• trying to do something with is life 
• Mysterious, stuck in black cloud. Fail through hero path.
• "Still playing on their script" says Alison to Nick in The Magus.
• stagnant character in whole novel regardless of which path, script has been written for you...
• caught him in fog.

Tori

• in order of the questions she asked these were my answers... 7, 63, 9, 4, d, Denmark, K, Kangaroo, O, Orange.... 
• Bagavagita? don't know how to spell... Knishna determines what everybody does
• Conchis & Knishna = puppet master
• Nicholas & Ishuna = puppets
• exploited knowledge
• FREEDOM & Determinism- master of behavioral psychology

Ashley

• Dante's Inferno- deceive someone cutting bond between two lovers.
• Nicholas and Zeus - travel heros pattern
• dangling- we have heard this many times in everyday life
• Boy meets girl, boy pushes girl away, boy realizes he loves girl, BLANK - dependant on person. PREDICTABLE! out of prediction, into freedom

Darrell

• womanizer, Hercales (can't benefit from women)
• Jason (hero), Thesius (labrynth) speculate out of maze if stayed with Alison, Oedipus back to game , Back to Thesius, Here we go again, Achilles going after Helen, underworld - physically restrained , a few minor details differ, 1,000 faces heard that story before!
• Appointment in Samara- Deja Vu , glitch in loop of film- THE MATRIX!!!
• HERE WE GO AGAIN! Sexson guessed the title of his paper!

Lauren 

• 3 regimes of mankind Conviviality, Rape, Indifference
• rejection of female Venus and Adonis
• wrath of gods abducted instead of rape
• "you sound like Adonis have you been (b)goared?"

• The Great Pan is Dead

Matt

• 7 Genious' are also INSANE!
• "Existence of mysteries" Miracles or disasters we have to embrace insantity!

Justin

• Myth archeotypes ... Nick = Hero, Lily/ Julie/ Rose/ Alison= Helen/ Medusa = Deceitful female
• carried into modern day literature

Hero is used positively in modern society 

myth hero - wrong, problematic, sexually driven