What you still need to learn/do for your final project?
of course I want to be creative and do a romantic music video with one of our peers, Omar, where we recreate My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion and him and I play Melville and Hawthorne and recreate scenes from the Titanic and Moby Dick. Being the more handsome of the bunch, I would clearly play Melville. Listen, I didn’t make the rules Dr Pressman did and I’m just abiding by them. Omar has a better idea for his project so he rejected me! How rude! 😉
So ive been pondering what to do, and being in the last week of class and seeing the impact Moby Dick has had on the entire entertainment industry, I would like to explore that with close reading and symbolism that has kept this book alive for so long and how many have adapted and interpreted in serval different ways. It’s going to research heavy and a challenge but this sounds fun actually for me. I may be Ahab and if done right this could be my Moby Dick… without the sinking ship part of course.
Hi Brock! Definitely would have loved to see the first draft of your final project but I see there were some creative differences. When I first took this class I felt like I was noticing/seeing more Moby Dick references in media, I even remember seeing it in an episode of The Vampire Diaries. It’s crazy how much of this book is in practically everything. Also The Whale is such a good movie I’m gonna rewatch it now that I’ve read the book!
I love the idea of tracing references and allusions from more contemporary society or specifically film. I might suggest you do a digital annotation project, rather than an essay; and put your interpretations in the forms of annotations about specific images or frames, like you have of the one above “The Whale.” Just remember, that it’s not enough to point out the allusions; you need to explain their relevance, perhaps by citing a quote from the novel to show how and why the allusion you select matters… and what the contemporary allusion tells us (helps us see differently) about the novel. Great ideas here!