From f97d073ed6b319fe895ddbc6b38e994c8596fa36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Lorimer <andrew@lorimer.id.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:43:22 +1100
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] [english] imagery from extra english with JC

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 english/troy.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/english/troy.md b/english/troy.md
index 1e0118a..a721131 100644
--- a/english/troy.md
+++ b/english/troy.md
@@ -90,8 +90,6 @@ Revenge, irrationality
 
 she ded
 
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 ### Chorus
 
 Represents pain, magnitude of people. Represents Women of Troy (society). Pleads to Ancient Greeks.  
@@ -110,3 +108,31 @@ Blind to his flaws (perhaps naive).
 ### Helen
 
 Imprisonment. Manipulative. Self-serving.
+
+## Imagery
+
+### Water / Nautical
+
+> "flow with the stream, let the new wind fill our sails, not breast a rinning tide with our fragile prow" (p.9)
+
+- start of play - Poseidon abandons ship  
+- water becomes symbol of comfort/peace for women (constant/familiar)  
+- symoblism of bodies of water = tears  
+
+### Dark & light
+
+### Violence
+
+> "it degrades the decency of speech to put such things into words" (p.53)
+
+- animalistic depictions of Hecuba
+- graphic violent passages (e.g. Astyanax's body -  p.35, p.51)
+- uncharacteristic of artistic norms at time of writing
+- comment on brutality/senselessness of war
+- lost innocence/peace/humanity/honour (symbol of Astyanax)
+- loss of common sense / perversion of nature & morality
+- no positive outcome of violence without sacrifice of morality/humanity (e.g. Talthybius)
+- appeal to Athenian audience incl. children
+- war effects everyone (e.g. Astyanax) therefore everyone should see the brutal outcome
+- acknowledgement that children should not be involved
+
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2.43.2