Professor Cripps
2-1-Q
Chapter 6
Student: Anthony Lacaprucia
2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each, ID/quote and add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation
- “It is almost impossible for jokes that are centuries old to retain any life. The fact that a few of the jokes of Shakespeare or Rabelais or Cervantes continue to make us smile is something of a miracle” (Greenblatt 4th page of chapter). I found this to be a very interesting point. It is cool that some forms of humor are timeless like that. I wonder if any Gen Z jokes will still be found funny in even just a century from now.
- “t indicates that the Church, though it could and did respond violently to what it perceived as doctrinal or institutional challenges, was willing to tolerate extremely sharp critiques from within, including critiques from secular figures like Poggio” (Greenblatt 94). It is somewhat surprising that the church would be so open to internal critiques. It is mentioned multiple times in this chapter so I imagine it must be important. In general I think being able to take critiques from members of whatever group you are in is important. For example, at football practice an internal critique would be from a fellow kicker and I would value this critique very highly as opposed to someone that plays another position.
1 – Make 1 Connection to Self, to World, or to Text – or Extend by offering a little detail about something mentioned in the text (some light research needed to Extend)
- I found the quote about how you should be suspicious of anyone who “wants to be called good, without actually doing anything particularly good” (Greenblatt 94) to be quite interesting. This reminds me of the youtube videos where the people donate stuff to homeless people but then make even more money back from the video. I think this quote can be applied to the scenario and would still be quite accurate. I’m sure it could be applied to many other citations as well.
Q – Give us a Good Question to chew on – 1-3 sentences
- ‘“Poggio,” who represents himself as a character in the dialogue, argues that hypocrisy is better at least than open violence, but his friend Aliotti, an abbot, responds that it is worse, since everyone can perceive the horror of a confessed rapist or murderer, but it is more difficult to defend oneself against a sly deceiver” (Greenblatt 93). What are your thoughts on this quote and would you agree with Poggio?
