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Christmas/Bible
- the original sin
Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is the Christian doctrine of humanity's state of sin resulting from the fall of man, stemming from Adam's rebellion in Eden. This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective guilt, referred to as a "sin nature", to something as drastic as total depravity or automatic guilt of all humans through collective guilt. - The second coming by William Butler Yeats
- Bethlehem: nativity of Jesus
- Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (Song)
- marshmallow (n.)棉花糖
Meaning: a spongy confection made from a soft mixture of sugar, albumen, and gelatin. - falcon (n.)鷹
Meaning: a diurnal bird of prey with long pointed wings and a notched beak, typically catching prey by diving on it from above.
Ancient Athenian Drama
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- Dionysus: God of the Grape Harvest, Winemaking, Wine, Ritual Madness, Religious Ecstasy, Fertility and Theatre.
Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology. In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, "the god that comes", and his "foreignness" as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. - Greek drama
Their origins remain obscure, though by the 5th century BC they were institutionalised in competitions held as part of festivities celebrating the god Dionysus.
characteristic→acoustic, mask, dialogue, performance
Agamemnon
- "Nets" in Agamemnon
This image appears at numerous points in the text, most memorably when Clytemnestra appears outside the palace at the end of the play, standing over the dead bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra; there, she boasts about how, "A net with no way through, just as for fish, I stake out round him, an evil wealth of clothing". But similar images appear throughout the play, such as when the Chorus says to the dead Agamemnon, "You lie in this spider's web breathing out your life in a death which is impious", or even in the famous image of the purple fabrics that Clytemnestra bullies Agamemnon into trampling on as he walks into the palace. Taken together, these images of nets, spider webs, and entangling clothing create a common image of Agamemnon's death inexorably closing in on him. Could this also be an image of the inescapable power of fate? That would depend on how you interpret the play's treatment of the theme of "Fate and Free Will," and we're not going to spoil your fun. - “Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favors come to us from gods.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon
→men muss learn by suffering
Supplement: Modern Literature
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- Free verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. This type of poetry is said to have been popularized by such notable poets as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson during the late 19th century.
Syllables
- -ant→people
ex. Protestant
Meaning: a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches. - ad-→forward
ex. advent, advantage, advance, advertisement - choreographer (n.)編舞者
- sex strike 性罷工
- en-→Verb: to cause to become
ex. enlarge, enslaved - futile (adj.)
Meaning: incapable of producing any useful result; pointless. - de-→down, away from
denouement (n.)
Meaning: the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.