History and Time

• Linear history is a timeline
• Cyclic history states that history becomes a cycle which has no start and no end that you are born and die and reborn and die and so on….
• Hegel history - The Hegelian Theory of History - Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis
– Event 1: John, strongest kid in class, doesn’t tie his shoes + Event 2: John picks on group of kids, bullying them.
– Event 3: = John chases the kids, but slips out of his shoe.
– Event 1: John sprains his ankle + Event 2: John gets jumped on the way home from school.
– Event 3: = John goes to the hospital and files a police report.
– Event 1: John gets a cast put on his ankle + Event 2: John talks to a sketch artist to find the person who jumped him.
– Event 3: John can't walk and his mugger is found.
• Vortex History/Vortextual History - established by Yeats
– Events go big and then small, small big
– Events are always changing