Performing in live theater always brought so much fun and excitement for me when I was in highschool. I especially had fun dressing up and seeing the different types of costumes. Different ways someone can look in order to obtain a different persona to perform on stage. I love costumes, even though I personally am not… Read more My Iago Costume
Category: Second Project Fall 2021
Death Death Death
By: Gabriel McSherry From Othello, 1995 to Macbeth, 2015 and ending with The King, 2019, it was an interesting and long journey. If I’ve learned anything from watching these three movies, it’s two things: 1. I’m a visual learner especially when it comes to Shakespeare, and 2. an angry Michael Fassbender is the last thing… Read more Death Death Death
Freedom Without Expectation
Before reading this opinion piece, I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch this short video: #Tobeblack. “Rap or Go to The League” – 2Chainz Freedom Without Expectation American Moor, the performance created and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb, was a stroke of genius. Through his production, Cobb, explores the racially charged phenomenon… Read more Freedom Without Expectation
Project 2
Luke Harding Helms Rethinking Medieval Literature November 5, 2021 Using Things of Darkness to Analyze Themes of Race in Othello and American Moor Things of Darkness by Kim F. Hall introduces a number of racial analysis methods and themes that can be applied to a variety of works, particularly early British and Medieval literature such as… Read more Project 2
Women Character Tarot Cards pt. 2
For my second project I really wanted to continue what I worked on for project one. A quick overview; I took a selection of women characters from the texts we read, and redesigned tarot cards for their characters. The idea that inspired this was that each woman’s character we examined could be taken in two… Read more Women Character Tarot Cards pt. 2
Christianity and Religion in “The Faerie Queene”
Why can’t the dragon just eat RedCrosse Knight while he’s in the fountain? This is a question that might be on our minds for a while after reading book 1 canto 11 of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. From a regular person’s perspective, this would make little sense because the dragon gave the knight… Read more Christianity and Religion in “The Faerie Queene”