Middot and Pop Culture: The Appeal of Immortality: Gulliver’s Travels, The Sandman, and Tuck Everlasting: Lesson 4
Class description
Tropes of Immortality
Aging Too Would Need to Be Overcome (including Struldbrugs in Gulliver’s Travels)
Pro:
You Could Be a Repository of Memory
You Could Learn a Huge Amount (including Cinderella in Fables)
You Could Try Everything (including Hob Gadling in The Sandman)
Neutral
Con:
You Would Have No Incentive (including “If We Were Vampires”)
You Would Watch Everyone Die
You Would Hold Back the Next Generation
You Wouldn’t Really Be Alive (including Tuck Everlasting)
The Real Immortality That We Believe in and Pray For
The skinny
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