Week 4 Lab

Story Laboratory: Crash Course

I like the Crash Course a lot it is one of the ways that I learned a lot of information in high school. The way that myths are presented in the Crash Course videos and the way that they try to define myth while also talk about the disagreements that people have about myths such as mythology can only be about gods while others think that mythology can be about hears while there is still an argument that can be made that the American Dream can be considered a myth. Regardless of the definition that is used for mythology, there is usually a lesson or something that can be learned and or used to explain why or how something happens even if maybe it is wrong. While Myth is a hard word to define mythology is not as difficult it is the study of myth and in a way is exactly what we are doing in this class while not so in-depth where we are doing mythological theories and the like but we are studying different myths from around the world. There has been come to be multiple definitions for different types of myths. Euhemerism is generally defined as primitive explanations of the natural world or time-distorted accounts of past historical events. The main part of the second video however is spent talking about the evolution of how mythology was studied from people believing that myths were lias that demons used to pull people away from Christianity to using myths to compare and contrast early cultures by looking at the similarities and differences in the myths that were told and the purposes of those myths in the lives of the people who believed them or heard them. The last video talks about the hero's journey which is also called the monomyth. This is a theory that was made popular by Joseph Campbell and it talked about similar themes that were in a lot of myths that had a hero where they left someone safe normally to somewhere dangerous in the attempt to save the day. He had a view that all myths were not so much individual from the culture they are from but each feels an archetype where there are a mother figure and a stressed father-son relationship his theory had a specific role of men and women and said myths rarely divulged from the structure he set forth. His theory was also set heavily affected by the philosophy of American expansionism. It then goes to explain how the framework can still be used even in the way that it isn't necessarily intended but how it can still work. I think these videos are really good at setting multiples ways to look and learn from myths and how your interpretation can vary from others but that doesn't mean that either is wrong. 

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Bibliography 

CrashCourse. "Crash Course World Mythology #1,12, &25 July 31, 2018 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrWYQjLLbXcigjUCnKKR86F5zrcQqfiP-"