Wonder Woman, Paul Ricœur, & Refusing the Second Naïveté (Holiday Post #3)
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen the 2017 film, Wonder Woman , the following may contain spoilers. As I did last year, I'm using the holidays to stray a bit from the topic of biblical allusions in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Besides my posts about Hamlet Had an Uncle and "the jade's trick" in Much Ado , I will be making a few other posts before twelfth night (the day before Epiphany), including a post about Shakespeare's Twelfth Night . Gatherings with family members during the Christmas season usually includes, for us, taking in some films (either in a theater or at home). This year it has included a number of films, including Wonder Woman (2017), which we viewed again at home with... let's say it was with representatives of a younger generation. [Promotional image via Comicbook.com ] The film is set during World War I, known then as "The Great War," and Wonder Woman (played by Gal Godot) believes the war is being caused by Ares, god of ...