Here is the link to the animated version of "Punishment" that we discussed in class today.
Here is a link to the South Park episode about it; it's incredibly insightful. Fair warning: it's pretty offensive (which should come as no surprise), but the point of the episode is profoundly moral and, despite the initial sensationalism in the first few minutes, there's a compassion to that cannot be overlooked.
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The “Haw Lantern’s” Diogenes might have been the Grecian Cynic born in Sinope. If this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope holds any truth to it, then Seamus Heaney’s poem has even more interesting angles to look through. What sort of message is it, when the main “character” of the poem essentially made a vow of poverty and thought poorly of many of humanity’s lifestyles? Like “The Railway Children,” how much can we live without what much of society deems as “indispensable?”
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