1. How did A start dressing up, change his hair?
2. dyed his hair black as in youth again, curling it into soft waves. touched up his lids, fixed evenness of his eyebrows, raspberry red lips, lotions, cream n skincare.
3. “carmine, cherry red, scarlet” – these red colors used to describe?
4. life and passion; in terms of the cosmetics aschenbach begins to wear, red is used to describe almost bringing youth back to old aschenbach.
5. According to A, T would stroll walk behind his family and sometimes do what?
6. loiter behind to look at aschenbach and not betray him.
7. What did he buy at the greengrocerer’s shop?
8. strawberries, soft and overly ripe.
9. What is the tendency/nature of artists? Artist’s relationship to the “abyss?’
10. artists cannot take the beauty of love without passion - its in their blood to be lost to both the pretty and the ugly of passion. they have a natural curiosity to push the limits of their emotions to the edge, without reserve and form, intoxicated by desire. artists are naturally drawn to it, despite the danger it poses.
11. Should we use art to educate the nation/youth?
12. no; art pushes people to the extremes, to chaos -> that's not good for society.

1. What was he drinking while watching the musicians?
2. Pomegranate Juice
3. How is the Neopolitan performer described? What color eyebrows?
4. Brutal and audacious, dangerous and amusing; ambiguity, vaguely repulsive. Eyebrows were reddish.
5. When the performer approached A, what was their conversation about the “sickness” outbreak?
6. Performer completely denied the existence of a plague, calling it a precautionary measure.
7. According to the Englishman, where did cholera originate from? (Does that setting remind you of any other imagery from the beginning of the novella?)
8. NOxious breath of the unfit, primitive world. Hatched in warm swamps of the delta, island wilderness - HIS DREAM AT THE BEGINNING!
9. What are some public and social reactions to the plague that eerily is similar to our pandemic?
10. The silencing of deaths, the constant denial or downplaying of the problem by city officials until it could no longer be hidden. Citizens against government, sparked movements and rebellion, rising crime, etc.
11. What does A think about doing? A “decent action that would cleanse his conscience?”
12. to tell Tadzio and the woman about the plague.
13. At this point, when he thinks about returning home to “levelheadedness,” how does he feel?
14. he doesn't want to do it because he's still tied to venice. what were art and virtue worth to him, over against the advantages of chaos?" "egregious sweetness"
15. Describe some bizarre images from his dream. Stop reading after “annihilation”
16. a raging mob whirling downwards in a riotous round dance
17. deep coaxing flute playing in the background
18. he became aoart if the crowd, and the crowd became him
19. in sacrifice to a foreign god, lost himself to chaos and savagery.

Reading Comprehension

1. • no need to take notes on this but try to make a mental note of Sufi language of drunkenness/intoxication/flame*
2. “desire is born of incomplete knowledge.”
3. When their eyes would (first) meet, what was his expression and T’s expression? - searching and questioning.
4. At the end of ch4, what defining moment made him tremble and shudder all over? - HE SMILED What did he whisper? - I LOVE YOU
5. Ch 5 -describe how the city smells. - sweetish and drug like; sickly yet tempting; a paradox, just like Venice itself.
6. What does A start doing beyond sitting at the beach watching T? - following him around
7. How was the newspaper report of the epidemic not certain/trustworthy? What were the death case numbers? (stop reading after you answer this question) - it would give death case numbers of twenty, forty or even 100+, yet also deny other instances of the plague/attribute them to isolated and extraneous situations

damn

in their own residence

to live with the wife's family

how does this translate to modern practices in east asia?

superiority !!

lack of distinction between family and public

idolization of subject (in this case of women)

they embodied the values they were taught.

updating list of key themes to explore ^^ * kinship and kingship * euro-american vs. east asian dualities (i.e. public and private spheres versus official and unofficial spheres as an incomplete parallel" * idealized versions of society, and how women fit into them -> how does history serve to combat idealistic notions? * native tenets of korea and japan melding with confucian idea (story of the filial daughter sim chong) -> she was filial, yet not devalued like was common in confucian tenets * root of education in modern society in confucian principles

how did two paradoxical tenets of blurred cultures blend together?

what is the universal "way"?

the han dynasty was confucian to the extent that the core confucian principles were applied to operation (think sort of like the spirit of the law)

intersection with the dao > how did these two schools of thought interact historically?

ontology!!

however, this equivalency is flawed in that it isn't representative of the complex dynamics between official and unofficial (connotations, etc) associated in Eastern culture.

links into more eastern focus on communal spaces and seeing the community as a whole, rather than a makeup of individuals (which the west focuses on)

cult of domesticity in european and western cultures?

of or relating to living with the wife's tribe or family