Adawhen

Ada, we want to know what lecture is tomorrow?
Posted:ST1Jan 30, 2005/ST108:22 PM?

Betrayal of the man you love. Series of tasks to be forgiven. Even the trials are the same. Match it up task for task, and you see the pattern. If you know your mythology, then this is Kate: Journey of a Modern Psyche. What we know of Kate is that she killed the man she loved, probably a self-blame that has little foundation, or a misdirected foundation. Psyche and her sisters. After Cupid leaves her, swearing that she will never see him again, Psyche undertakes a mission to simply be able to view him one more time. Not speak to him, not win him back, but to view him unseen from a distance. The toy plane, to Kate, a silent symbol of lost love. Uncaring that she is destroying the thing that had made her beautiful and worthy of the love of a god, Psyche destroys her looks to regain the one moment. Kate destroys the thing that the man she loved, loved. Psyche's efforts bring her to culminated circumspection and redemption because of the extremity of her efforts. Kate is finding redemption through her new life on the island. After the betrayal, Psyche, in the original myths, is given the choice of continuing her life without Cupid, but unharmed. She refuses this choice and seeks him out. The tasks destroy her only power, her beauty, which she states as just as well because it was the thing that lost her the man she loved. She throws away her beauty to regain the thing that she lost, a view of the man she loved. The view, the thing that she threw his trust away for, becomes everything. Kate, having killed the man she loves, destroys her virtue, her honor, her sense of being. She becomes what she feels his death made her: a monster; without a soul. She used this persona to regain the only thing left of him and a time when he loved her, a toy plane. The toy becomes everything. No, there is no chance of restoration. The tasks are undertaken for a view and nothing else. Later myths suggest more, but earliest forms of this tale state that there was NO chance of profit. Psyche simply wanted to look, unseen, one last time at the face of the person she loved. She understood that it was a single moment, and that it was a no-win situation. She would have lost her beauty for the moment, but it was worth it to her. It proved that her love was true and had meaning. Even though Cupid would never understand that, she would.Kate understands that she has killed the man she loves. She is beyond the halls of heaven, condemned to Hell for her action. There is no redemption. But the toy plane is her last view of the only thing worthwhile in her life. Even though there is no profit from it, nothing will stop her from regaining it simply because it is her last view of what she once had.Would a woman sell her virtue for that reason? Are you kidding? Women have sold it for far less!Think of someone that you love purely. If it's a boyfriend or girlfriend, lover, wife or husband, that's great. Closer to how Psyche/Kate love would be your child or your parent if you are childless.Think on that relationship for a minute. Think of why you love someone with that deep, fathomless depth. What do they mean in your life?Now kill them. Kill them brutally. Kate doesn't blame herself; she KNOWS she killed the man she loved. No one but her. Whatever happened, in her mind there is NO room for doubt. Took a knife and drove it through that heart until it stopped beating.Kate did it, at least in her own mind.Some of us carve our lives away in pieces of guilt over imagined slights. Kate KNOWS she killed the man she loves. How do you live with that? In Kate's case, as in Psyche's, they don't. They have judged themselves human wreckage. They don't deserve to live. But in the time that they have while sailing adrift, they want one more moment of when they were alive, and more importantly, love was.

Platosbrain Posted:ST1Jan 30, 2005/ST109:10 PMT
hen what is the point of it all? If she is beyond hope, why doesn't she just kill herself?

Adawhen Posted:ST1Jan 30, 2005/ST109:21 PM
Whoa! Who said she's beyond hope? I never said she's beyond hope!What is the thing that sets man apart from every other creature on the face of the earth? What is it that we do that drives us to invent and create and define and diversify and build and grow and strive and yearn?The much rumored touch of the Divine?We hope. When there is no reason for doing so, we hope. We hope it will get better, we hope that we will love again; we hope that something will change; we hope to see the face of God.We hope.Kate has indeed lost hope, but she wanted to see love one last time. The toy plane. She would have welcomed death before, but hoped to see the plane.Now, on the island, she is beginning to hope for other things. Watch her scenes with Jack, a hero who is also on a journey to hope. He killed his father. Wait until they start comparing personal notes! Talk about your coincidences! Even if the man she loved turns out not to be her father, they have each destroyed the only thing they every truly loved.And now they are on the island. If you watch their scenes, they are fighting an attraction. Why? Neither of these two are virgins, emotionally or physically?Heck, Kate drops trow as soon as any man BUT Jack walks by. Jack practically runs in the opposite direction when ever she gets to close. Why are they avoiding each other? Because they both feel they are unlovable, and I don't mean cuddly. The writers are smart.