HUM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Utopia
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Why does this play seem so influential, because this play could"ve been our own, oracle laid some curse upon us. Old comedy"s utopianism: desire to live in complete satisfaction freedom, compulsion, and physical appetit. *the desire and concept of utopia build comedy. Hero is always going against the oppressed satisfactory, uses audience" unrestrained laughters to overcome the oppressive satisfactory. *aristophanes"s style of comedy marks innovation of comedy. Acharnian attempts to make speech for life toward chorus. Scatology: rude disgusting form of comedy, study of vulgar rude language. Comic uses shit talk to defend utopian society against envious folks. Two slaves complaining about their master, while making shit cake. Play opends when hero wanders out in pitch black, and taking a dump while talking to neighbor. Topics include politics, womanetc/ dawn comes, hero worried getting caught. He crapped for eight months on the golden mountains. signifying the magnificence of the persian king.
