Thischange was intimately tied to the precarious state ofexistence of the romantic poets and men of letters.
This section describes the ideas of intelligence and its importance to describing genius in the time period which I think applies to our subjects.
take full measure of relevant historical andsociocultural developments and their impact on con-temporary conceptions regarding the nature of creativeindividuals and the creative process as they pertain todifferent areas of artistic and intellectual endeavors.Whatever the connection regarding heredity, creativeendeavor, and mental stability, social definitions in theform of role models must become an integral part ofthe debate
Basically he is saying that you need to take into account the history of the ideas surrounding the link between genius and madness when truely evaluating someone and if they truly are mad or playing the part either partially or wholly.
redefinitions ofthe nature of genius. In the way that contemporary scien-tists, accountants, and engineers are expected to displayattributes of objectivity, reason, and emotional stability,for poets, writers, and artists the expectations involvemanifestations of intuitiveness, a fanciful imagination,sensitivity, temperament, and emotional expressive-ness, in short, a manifestation of a kind of madness. It isnot at all unreasonable to assume that to the extent thatthese expectations continue to be part of a professionalideology of what it means to be truly creative, even con-temporary writers and artists, far from disavowing thelabel of madness, may actually invite it.
This idea of manufactured 'madness' of creative types may play into some of Bob Dylan's career and how he acted throughout.
played an integralpart in the past in the determination of the genius as clini-cally afflicted. This tendency to take the gifted at theirword regarding their own condition also applies to con-temporary examinations of the iss
Drawing on the debate about the link between madness and genius coming full circle, but also notes that reports of 'madness' inflcited genius may be unreliable because they usually come from the person themselves
essentially reliable descriptions of mental ill-ness is that it tends to overlook one critical fact: Thesepronouncements on the part of the creative individualsmay involve self-serving descriptions and projectionsof images that were made in the context of cultural as-sumptions often quite different from those of contem-porary society. In
Good example of how creative and talented people might think and project some 'mad' characteristics because they feel it's how they should be and not necessarily how they are.
whose people might otherwise fail to understand what the opera wassatirizing
interesting point about his viewership
Wilde was not a fraud: he was fascinated by beauty from classicism toKeats, he correlated reform in dress and house decoration with beauty and respect inhuman relations, and he saw philistinism as tyranny in taste and politics.
interesting claim
hear, "I love you and I want to always have you back. That's why I need to know why you're illing like this because it hurts me. And it's impossible for me truly to have you back when you're hurting
she is much more concerned about starting a dialogue to get the root of the issue instead of an argument with black men over their misogyny, which is a much harder stance to take.
The seemingly impenetrable wall of sexism and machismo in rap music is really the mask worn both to hide and to express the pain. Hip hop is the only forum in which young black men, no matter how surreptitiously, are allowed to express their pain at all
interesting take on sexism and masculinity in rap music and ties into why rap music is so important as a forum of expression as the only one that existed for young underprivileged black men.
Shakur and speculated that the pair most likely celebratedtheir birthdays together.
seems like a funny "speculation" that's weird to mention.
love Shakespeare. He wrote some ofthe rawest stories, man. I mean look atRomeoand Juliet. That’s some serious ghetto shit.
interesting how he applies shakespeare to his reality.
Makaveli” fromRenaissanceItalian philosopher and strategistNiccolòMachiavelli, whose writings inspired Shakur in prison,but who also preached that a leader could eliminate hisenemies by all means necessary.
strange influence for a rapper but it probably stems from his schooling background and study of classical arts.
It wascertified5× Platinum after just 2 months in April 1996 and 9×platinum in 1998
didn't realize any of his albums did this well.
His motherAfeni Shakur(born Alice Faye Williams inNorth Carolina) and his father Billy Garland were ac-tive members of theBlack Panther Partyin New Yorkin the late 1960s and early 1970s
parents probably influenced tupac through their involvement in the Black Panthers
Shakur’s political and social views
probably influenced from his time involved with his local communist party.
Dorian Gray was passing through the same experience.27 He had merely shot an arrow into the air.28 Had it hit the mark? How fascinating the lad was
so far Dorian Gray is being represented as a pure and uncorrupted soul and this suggests that it will change at some point perhaps.
edit: Looking back at this from finishing the book, this is a major tipping point for Dorian. He meets Henry and his entire outlook on life changes.
The thing was still loathsome
this picture represents an artist portrayal of dorian and his painting.
edit: the painting of Dorian's soul appears to be by an artist named Ivan Albright, couldn't find a source on the left image.
Was it really true that one could never change? He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood,—his rose-white boyhood, as Lord Henry had once called it.148 He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption, and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so; and that of the lives that had crossed his own it had been the fairest and the most full of promise that he had brought to shame. But was it all irretrievable? Was there no hope for him
Dorian hates the idea that after all hes done, he can't change and go back like nothing ever happened. He is still the selfish child he started out as years prior.
I can’t bear this, Harry! You mock at everything, and then suggest the most serious tragedie
Dorian still, even after all he's done, projects this innocent version of himself when he talks to Henry.
Suddenly he remarked that every face that he drew seemed to have an extraordinary likeness to Basil Hallward
Evan though he has done so much bad, the things he does still affect his conscience and haunt him.
Hallward moved in his chair as if he was going to rise. He rushed at him, and dug the knife into the great vein that is behind the ear, crushing the man’s head down on the table, and stabbing again and agai
this was one last moment for Dorian to repent and change his ways, but he chose to give in to his darker side.
I don’t wish to know anything about them. I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
Dorian hates being confronted with his true self.
he would suddenly leave his guests and rush back to town to see that the door had not been tampered with and that the picture was still there. What if it should be stolen? The mere thought made him cold with horror. Surely the world would know his secret then. Perhaps the world already suspected it.
Dorian's guilt of the status of his soul represented in the painting makes him very ashamed of who he really is.
es, there was to be, as Lord Henry had prophesied, a new hedonism that was to re-create life, and to save it from that harsh, uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival
Dorian seems to be almost a disciple of Henry's teachings and likes to parrot his ideas.
The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them
knowing could possibly mean 'knowing' his new life of sin and selfish desire.
89 with Lord Henry for having sent him the account. And it was certainly stupid of him to have marked it with red pencil. Victor might have read it. The man knew more than enough English for that. Perhaps he had read it, and had begun to suspect something. And, yet, what did it matter? What had Dorian Gray to do with Sibyl Vane’s death? There was nothing to fear. Dorian Gray had not killed her.
This new change in Dorian is making him go crazy.
You know what I mean,—middle-class virtue, and all that kind of thing.
he seems to be parroting something henry told him earlier. His new persona is highly influenced by henry's ideas.
Dorian, this is horrible! Something has changed you completely. You look exactly the same wonderful boy who used to come down to my studio, day after day, to sit for his picture. But you were simple, natural, and affectionate then. You were the most unspoiled creature in the whole world. Now, I don’t know what has come over you. You talk as if you had no heart, no pity in you. It is all Harry’s influence. I see that
Basil sees the change in Dorian's soul but also acknowledge his unchanging and youthful appearance.
Yes, life had decided that for him,—life, and his own infinite curiosity about life. Eternal youth, infinite passion, pleasures subtle and secret, wild joys and wilder sins,—he was to have all these things. The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all
seems like a tipping point for Dorian's character
She would have done that for me. She had no right to kill herself. It was selfish of her
he keeps implying this idea that others owe him something and are terrible when they rob him of it.
You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were wonderful, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all awa
Dorian is selfish and wants to use people and only sees there value in what they can do for him.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life
Henry seems like he is making excuses to not have to really critically think about things past his own interpretation.
The sky above was like a faded rose. He thought of Dorian Gray’s young fiery-colored life, and wondered how it was all going to end
mentions a faded rose in the line before he wonders how Dorian Gray's life will end. Dorian fears his fading beauty and had mentioned in the first or second chapter that he wished to end his life when his beauty fades.
My dear boy, no woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as we men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
Henry is always lecturing people about every idea that comes up in a conversation with his own polarizing opinions.
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Henry likes to make statements like this all the time to sound wiser perhaps around his peers.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the sou
curious
we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces. My wife is very good at it,—much better, in fact, than I am. She never gets confused over her dates, and I always do. But when she does find me out, she makes no row at all. I sometimes wish she would; but she merely laughs at me
he recognizes his fault and apparently so does his wife. They seem very apathetic to their relationship from this description including lines above.
predatory power, controlling the entire meeting
adds to the claim that she had other motives besides actually meeting Byron.
fantasy
repeated term
By writing the letter, she is able to play the part of the mysterious, all-controlling 'Echo', and in a sense become the Byronic hero in her 'relationship' with Byron
ties into one of the overall arguments of the selection in that the writer is arguing that some of these women who wrote to Byron about their fantasies with him weren't meant to be literal, but more about imitation and projection.
there is still a strong element of fancifulness in her letter
the claim is that Echo doesn't actually want to meet with Byron, but just wants to be able to fantasize about it.
fantasy relationship
repeated terms
desire
key term
Echo
Echo's letter is the evidence for the paragraph. It exemplifies one of Byron's letters that is more interested in an imagined fantasy than an actual encounter with Byron, which the author argues many of the mystery letter writers were more interested in.
hed he in his native land to dwell, 35 Which seemed to him more lone than Eremite’s sad cell.
in class exercise
hom he loved, but sa
in class exercise
d to many though he loved but one,52 And that loved one, alas! could n’er be his. 40 Ah, happy she! to ’scape from him whose kiss Had been pollution unto aught so chaste; Who soon had left her charms for vulgar bliss, And spoiled her goodly lands to gild his waste, Nor calm domestic peace had ever deign
in class exercise
bisexuality
They only really show this in the beginning of the movie in Greece and then don't really show any continuing relations with other men.
Byron arrived in Pisa in November 1821, having followed Teresa and the Counts Gamba there after the latter had beenexpelled from Ravenna for taking part in an abortive uprising. He left his daughter Allegra, who had been sent to him by hermother, to be educated in a convent near Ravenna,
They briefly discuss this part of his life in the movie, but they don't really go into much detail about his involvement in the uprising or about his daughter being sent to him to be educated.