My favorite project that someone else completed this semester was Tess MacMahon’s first project, where she created Heorot from Beowulf in Minecraft. I love the game (I’ve actually played it with Tess before!) as well as the epic poem, so to see the way she visualized the hall was really interesting. I thought it was… Read more Project Reflection
Kayla Orthman
The Monomyth and Tragedies (Project 2)
The Hero’s Journey: we’ve all heard of it. For a long time, stories have been basing their plots around this outline, whether intentionally or not. This pattern was discovered by Joseph Campbell, a mythologist in the 1930s. Throughout the stories he read, he noticed that there were certain themes and events that reoccurred. In 1949,… Read more The Monomyth and Tragedies (Project 2)
The Blazing World, collab 1
Bees are Capitalist
Margaret Cavendish’s poem “Similizing the Brain to a Garden” is a beautiful piece. As the title says, the poem spends its time comparing the human brain to a garden. There are a lot of metaphors and similes, as expected from something like this. For the first half of the poem, it compares thoughts to different… Read more Bees are Capitalist
Margaret Cavendish Hears A Who
Margaret Cavendish’s poem It Is Hard to Believe that there Are Other Worlds in this World reminds me somewhat of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who. In the poem, the narrator wonders about how many small worlds are hidden inside of our own. So in this world another world may be,Which we do neither touch,… Read more Margaret Cavendish Hears A Who
“Midnite” vs. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
I saw Midnite three times. It was a great show, and many of my friends were in it, so I wanted to be able to see them perform as many times as I could. It was an adaption of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, about a group of college students who go into the woods… Read more “Midnite” vs. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Casting Paradise Lost, collab
Battle of the Poets (Paradise Lost Book 9)
Nothing in this world is funnier to me than the beef between old poets. In the beginning of Book 9, Milton throws some shade at fellow poets Virgil and Homer. Clearly, Milton sees himself to be writing something more important than Virgil’s The Aeneid or Homer’s The Iliad. Not to discredit the “death of the… Read more Battle of the Poets (Paradise Lost Book 9)
Milton Books 2-3 Collab
Satan’s Morals (Paradise Lost Book 4)
Satan is revealed as much more complex in this book. His inner turmoil has been hinted at already, but the entire beginning of this book really gives us a perspective on how he feels and why he’s doing what he’s doing. Upon himself; horror and doubt distractHis troubl’d thoughts, and from the bottom stirrThe Hell… Read more Satan’s Morals (Paradise Lost Book 4)