Ah young love, don’t you love it? Love makes people do crazy things, doesn’t it? It might make you, change your look, act like someone you’re not, or in some extreme cases kill yourself cause you cant be with them. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Chikamatsu’s The Love Suicides at Amijima follows the later… Read more The Tragic Tales of Love Suicides Throughout Literature (Project 3)
Category: Third Major Project, Fall 2020
King Dusyanta-> John Smith-> Aragorn
This project will consist of three “film reviews” from Shakuntala, Pocahontas, and Lord of the Rings. I believe that their “heroic” characters and their respective conflicts draw similar conclusions. I am setting out to show a pattern in characters perspective storytelling over time. It should start as origin, to “original”, then to the final rendition.… Read more King Dusyanta-> John Smith-> Aragorn
Reflection on Project 3
I had a lot of fun when creating this board game. I have made a board game in the past for a Rethinking Modern British Literature class and it most definitely had its flaws. I could definitely say after creating one before that this time through was a lot smoother. Sadly I could not create… Read more Reflection on Project 3
The Global Literature Expedition: Board Game
Welcome to The Global Literature Expedition! As I said in my last project reflection I was really trying to find a way to get away from the traditional essay way so I came up with a great game for this class. The Global Literature Expedition challenges players to stay a float through the crashing waves… Read more The Global Literature Expedition: Board Game
Project #3
Makensie Roderick Project # 3 Professor Nicholas Helms 11/28/2020 Representation of Ghost of the Past– Unessay Representation of the theme Ghost of the Past is obvious to us readers in Edwidge Danticat’s, The Dew Breaker. The Dew Breaker is a collection of nine separate but interconnected stories. The first entry, The Book of Ka, is… Read more Project #3
3rd project – Essay
Shakuntala’s connection to nature Throughout the tale of Shakuntala, we, the readers, are able to see the love that blossoms between Shakuntala and the King Dusyanta. We are also able to see the abundance of nature throughout the play. However, these things are not mutually exclusive, or disconnected. We see love and nature intertwined… Read more 3rd project – Essay
Stranger in the Sacred Grove: Nature and Sexual Politics in Shakuntala
Women have been associated with nature for many reasons: throughout time, both have been muses and conquests for men. The terminology we use to refer to nature, like “mother nature,” “virgin,” “fertile,” and “barren,” all allude to female sexuality. In Kalidasa’s play Shakuntala, the main character, the King, enters sacred land on the hunt for… Read more Stranger in the Sacred Grove: Nature and Sexual Politics in Shakuntala
Koharu Deserved to See Cherry Blossoms (CW: Puppets/Dolls)
CW: IMAGES of PUPPETS/ DOLLS So for my third unessay I decided to try and create a bunraku puppet of Koharu from The Love Suicides at Amijima. I ended up creating something very similar/ close to a bunraku puppet but it’s more like a doll. It’s also a lot smaller. I found out bunraku puppets… Read more Koharu Deserved to See Cherry Blossoms (CW: Puppets/Dolls)
Project 3– Pillow Book Seasons Imagery
There are a handful of excerpts from “The Pillow Book” by Sei Shônagon that are descriptions and experiences of seasons– specifically summer, autumn, and winter. I thought the imagery in these excerpts were beautiful and wanted to put together some immersive visuals to go along with some of the concepts from them. And so this… Read more Project 3– Pillow Book Seasons Imagery
Project 3 – Reflection
For all three of our major projects I have decided to go an untraditional route. This last one I am the most proud of however. I decided to rewrite the ending of the play The Love Suicides at Amijima because if followed the “Romeo and Juliette” storyline to a fault. I really enjoyed the entire… Read more Project 3 – Reflection