Aphorisms

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.-Buddha

When I read this quote I laughed a little bit in my head, because it reminded me of a truth that didn’t stay long hidden from my mother.  One day I was very angry at my brother and so I threw him my cell-phone, but he dodged it and the cellphone hit the wall and the screen broke. I lied to my mother and told her that I accidentally sat on it, but 4 months later I was in my car with my mom and a friend, and the friend was telling how the screen of his cellphone had broken, and I wanted to tell my story of how my screen broke, so I told it without realizing my mom was in the car, and she looked at me then laughed.

Eurycide and Orpheus

Who are Hades, Fates, Tantalus and Sisyphus? All are gods that leave in the underworld and take chargeof the dead.

 How can Orpheus get Eurydice back? If he doesn’t turn around to see if she is following as they get to daylight

 List the ways we are invited to interpret the story.

One way is from Eurydice point of view: she doesn’t understand what is happening, forgets who Orpheus is. Because death has fulfilled her

The other is the point of view is Orpheus: he is insecure if she is behind so he turns around and then she goes away.

 Which interpretation do you most agree with? I agree with Eurydice interpretation because eventually everyone will die and when they die the suffering will end.

Is this a love story?  Why?  Why not? If so, what kind of love does this seem to be?

This is a love story because it is a man that tries to get his wife after he lost her. But it is also a drama because the man was so impatient to get her that he lost her.

Metamorphoses Script

Why does Erysichthon cut down the tree?

Because he needed the wood, and didn’t believe that anything was sacred.

Define piety. 

Piety is being merciful, or a religious devotion.

How does this term relate to Erysichthon?

Well we could say that Erysichton isn´t piety because he doesn’t do sacrifices or believe in anything holy.
What connections can be made between this scene and this children's story?

What I believe to be the main connection is that the boy and Erysichthon only looked for the usefulness of things and not for the meaning or the love. Like Erisichthon sold his mother, and the boy cut down the tree.
Relate the events in this scene to a specific passage in Siddhartha.

Pg.63 “The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish-acquisitiveness” Siddhartha was similar to Erisichton because both wanted resources and acquisitiveness. Both ended on the wrong path.