HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Jean-Paul Sartre, Justice Of The Peace, The Flies
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Stories in diverse media (ap huma 1780b) wednesday. Orestes: background figure: uncomplicated, unidimensional, agent of electra"s passion, bold, cunning, and resolute in his actions and plans for revenge, aiming for self-restoration, no fear or remorse. Unambiguously villainous and monstrous (adulterous; murderous mother and wife; unblemished hatred for her husband; cruel to electra and agamemnon"s body). Atheist philosopher (school of existentialism), novelist, playwright, journalist, and political activist. Literature used as a vehicle for philosophical ideas and political statements (the flies) In 1940 nazi germany invaded and occupied france; Sartre denunciation of his fellow frenchmen for their cowardly collaboration and hypocritical excuses (helplessness, innocence, conformism; self-preservation); After our defeat in 1940 all too many frenchmen gave way to discouragement or yielded to remorse. I wrote the flies and tried to show that remorse was not an attitude frenchmen should choose after our country"s military collapse: our past no longer existed.
