Prometheus
Points to Ponder
- Who is the narrator?
- Sex
- Age
- Status - Education, skills, class
- Passions
- Motives
- What is the context?
- What goes on before, after and "around"
- Science vs religion
- Man being God
- What is the passage's purpose?
- Contemplative to show both sides
- Creates tension
- Sentence Structure?
- Simple
- Compound
- Complex
- Vocabulary?
- Technical - jargon?
- Abstract or concrete
- Powerful or week
- Grammatical patterns?
- Alternatives/paradoxes/Back and forth
- Cadence
- Why do we die?
- Why Prometheus as alternative title?
- What human needs did she tap into?
Exercise:
Write a short piece between two people at a restaurant where the one is indifferent and the other resigned to them slipping apart.
He passed the salt even though she hadn't asked.
The way he efficiently poured her drink irritated her.
A waiter appeared and he ordered the same boring burger he always did.
Across the way a couple were debating the merits of the calamari over the Pork fillet.
His cold fish like hands lay on the cloth and she felt an urge to stab it with a fork, to surprise the fish and have it flap and writhe or even try to escape. She smiled to herself and he smiled back, his brow slightly furrowed.
She ordered a salad she didn't want and saw the clock had moved on another ten minutes.
" I was thinking" he said, and she dragged herself back to the buzz and warmth of the restaurant.
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