Myth and the world around us

For one of my education classes, I had to develop my dream course. Something that I could teach, if there was no such thing as a set curriculum. Many of my ideas for this assignment came from this class. One of the major points, came from Amanda's presentation on Thursday. This class showed me how much certain myths are repeated, even in the case of one author. We read many plays that mention greek and roman mythology. And at the base of everything seemed to be Ovid's Metamorphoses. Mostly I realized how much I still need to read. And I figure if I can introduce this same idea to my students at a young age, they may develop the same love for literature that I do. Or I might just scare them off completely...

The course surrounds myth and how it is transformed throughout time, but mostly it would be looking at how many myths stay the same. I was looking at creation stories, the myth of the hero and other prominent archetypes, fairy tales, and as Amanda pointed out, forbidden love. I had not thought about the abundance of forbidden love throughout literature before she said that. I need to read her paper to come up with more examples of this. She had a great argument about Shakespeare's obsession with this overall theme, not just the form of Venus and Adonis.

This makes me want to discover more examples of consuming myths, themes, and stories and discover why they capture our minds entirely. And why, even four hundred years later, authors are rewriting the story of the hero, Venus and Adonis, and forbidden love, but with new characters and settings.