For Monday and In-Class Writing for Friday

For Monday we'll start the second 'unit' in class, moving away from Love and Beauty in the Ancient World to focus on Heroes, Villains, and War in the Ancient World.  No reading for Monday; instead, we'll examine some art and consider what values epitomize the 'hero' then and now, and why war is always tied up in these conceptions. 

If you missed class today, you  have one more chance to complete the in-class writing assignment (below).  You can e-mail it to me this weekend or bring it to class no later than Monday.  Either way, be sure to read The Wife of Bath's Tale since it will help you immeasurably if you decide to write Short Paper #1.

In-Class Response to "The Wife of Bath's Tale": 

 In “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” the angry wife asks her audience,

Now who painted the lion, tell me who?

By God, if women had written stories,

Like clerks do with their oratories,

They would have written of men more wickedness

Than all the mark of Adam could redress.”

The “Wife of Bath’s Tale” is her attempt to write a story about women by a woman (even though a man wrote all of it!).  How does she try to satirize men in this story and/or tell the “real” story of women?  Consider that her audience is largely comprised of men, and in some sense, she wants to insult them and instruct them in how to treat their wives at home.