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     One of the panel presentations briefly mentioned connections between Rumpelstiltskin and the story of Antoinette. In Rumpelstiltskin Antoinette would be the millers daughter. The story of Rumpelstiltskin goes that there is a miller who tells the king his daughter can spin straw into gold. the king then locks her up and for I think three nights where she is forced to spin straw into gold, Rumpelstiltskin comes and offers to help in exchange for her necklace and other things that she owns. Eventually she becomes queen and keeps promising stuff. Rumpelstiltskin comes for her first child, she doesn't want to give it up and so he says that if she can guess his name the Queen could keep her child. She gets it wrong but then someone over hears Rumpelstiltskin say his name then the queen gets to keep her child the end.      In the book Antoinette mentions liking a painting "The Millers Daughter". This could be a reference to...

     We had a panel presentation on Thursday that brought up  the idea of a world full of Meursaults so I'm going to talk about it more because its interesting. The Stranger poses a fundamental question: can we really judge people. The courts problem with meursault is they don't understand him, and they pass judgment on him based on this misunderstanding. To pass judgment on meursault or a society seems to miss the point that the book tries to make. The book  makes you think about how your judgments of people are based on the terms of our society which is why meursault was put to death. That being said its still an interesting thought so I don't really care and i'm going to do it anyway.      One question to think about first is "What do we judge as good" by are societies ideals its one where everyone is free, able to provide for basic needs, and pursue happiness. A society of cold blooded killers obviously doesn't fit this model....