Blog Pst 7: Flight

When I think or hear of the word "flight" I usually think of things that can fly like angels, planes, birds, insects, or maybe even superheroes. According to to the chapter of "Flights of Fancy" humans cannot fly. When we see someone in the air, it is either a superhero, fictional character, a ski jumper, an angel, etc. We all wish we could fly in some sort of way but due to the law of gravity, we cannot.  A Greek myth was that of Daedalus and Icarus, in which an ingenious father's attempt to save his son from a tyrant. He creates wings but his son gets too close to the sun, the wax of the wings melt and the son falls to his death. An Aztecan myth is the one of an important god to them, Quetzalcoatl, as a snake with feathered wings. A myth of the flying Africans. Also the myth of Satan tempting God to fly. For many, flight is considered freedom. In the Crucible, someone was said to be flying. Betty says she would fly to get her mother. "Her freedom, like her 'imprisonment' is paradoxical" (Foster 129). Paradoxical means to be seemingly absurd or self-contradictory. A famous example of paradox is one that says, "I can resist anything but temptation" by Oscar Wilde. There have been many examples of paradox in the text of the Crucible. The girls of the town go into the woods to do some sort of ritual. To the town they're "good"girls but secretly they have been doing "evil" things. It's someone "good" doing "evil".