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  1. Mar 2025
    1. Yet so it is that, in the age I am now of, I have been constrained to learn the Greek tongue

      Greek tongue is mostly related too greek language, but go deeper to what it actually means in this text greek tongue goes further to just the language we all know about. "Roots or Primitive Words, Together with the most confiderable Derivatives of the Greek Language. As also a treatise of prepositions and other undeclinable particles" (Lancelot 1). The greek tongue is thee root of the greek language and when referred in gargantua greek was still old and all the derivatives we can see nowadays did not existed. In that time learning new languages was very difficult because of the lack of resources. The best way she could've learned the greek tongue was moving to greece and as mentioned it was difficult. Lancelot, Claude. The Primitives of the Greek Tongue: With Rules for Derivation. Translated by Mr. Nugent, 2nd ed., J. Nourse, 1748. https://archive.org/details/primitivesofgree00lancrich

    2. and every way so far out of order that he seemed to have been a-fighting with mastiff-dogs, from whose fury he had made an escape; or to say better, he looked, in the condition wherein he then was, like an apple-gatherer of the country of Perche.

      This reading is well known for being a good satire and using particular examples to describe scenarios or characters. A good example is this part where a comparison is being made between a very tough fight with dogs, and the vulnerability of a person after a long hard work day to an apple gatherer. "It will be seen that the method used involves an attempt to relate features of literary technique to underlying attitudes which they seem to imply" (Morrison 33). According to this article this novel relates situations to something more exagerated and closer to a reality we can understand better while reading. It is important in this kind of writing because it will make the purpose real of make us laugh and imagine.

      Morrison, Ian R. “Ambiguity, Detachment, and Joy in ‘Gargantua.’” The Modern Language Review, vol. 71, no. 3, 1976, pp. 513–22. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3725745. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

  2. Jan 2025
    1. O woman, woman of sorrow, Where wilt thou turn and flee? What town shall be thine to-morrow, What land of all lands that be, What door of a strange man’s home? Yea, God hath hunted thee, Medea, forth to the foam Of a trackless sea.

      in this part I would like to annotate two things, the first part which refers to one of the biggest part of the story which is abandonment, Medea is suffering by know the necessity to leave and abandon. Followed by the las part which refers to having to leave to a different place by not knowing where to go through sea. This takes place in Colchis which is a distant land and she need to cross the sea to meet Jason. Robert Tyminski The Medea Complex—Myth and Modern Manifestation, Jung Journal 8, no.11 (Feb 2014): 28–40.

    1. Resist the false, soft sinfulness which saps Knowledge and judgment! Yea, the world is strong, But what discerns it stronger, and the mind Strongest; and high o’er all the ruling Soul.

      This part is a strong determination specially how it exclaims "Resist the false, soft sinfulness which saps Knowledge and judgment!", Krishna advises Arjuna to resist temptation and distractions that weaken knowledge and judgment. He acknowledges that the world is strong in its ability to mislead, but emphasizes that the mind is even stronger. In the context of who Arjuna is, we know he is admirable but at the same time he is very stubborn and pride so this is why Krishna is advising him to resist and trust in his mind. Mark, J. J., & Haynes, C. (2025). Arjuna. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/Arjuna/