The Tempest

After reading "The Tempest" and listening to it on the iTunes download, the pictures have completely changed the way I imagined the characters in the play. Personally, I enjoy reading books before watching the movie because seeing characters in your imagination is much more fun than someone showing you what the character looks like. Reading a description, and even listening to one like Rachel and I did for "The Tempest" makes it a mystery without photos. One of the pictures on the Emory site of Caliban looked like an ape. After listening to his voice on the download, I definitely would not think that he was an ape-looking person. The pictures for Ariel on the Emory site are each different, and they do not look at all like what I would have pictured after hearing her sing on the audio version of the play. Some of the pictures from the Tate Museum in London that are of "The Tempest" are cool, or maybe I just like them because I was at the Tate... But unfortunately I can't remember seeing these particular paintings.

Literary Theories

I was looking at the different types of theories and found that they are all similar in the fact that they are each critiquing texts --only from a different point of view. Literary Theory is a scholarly approach to reading texts. With Literature being undefinable, the theories revolve about shuch a wide varitey of text. The roots go back to Ancient Greek and Rome. Theory and Criticism are the main focuses on each of these theories, which are all unique in their own way.
According to Wikipedia, MARXISM, refers to the philpsophy and social theory-- and what Karl Marx believed.
FEMINIST LITERARY CRITCISM is about womens roles and lives and the feminist politics that go along with their lives. This theory aims to understand women, all while critiquing them at the same time. It is interesting reading about this theory because I have never actually compared it to literature-- especially something like what we have read in class.
The FRENCH FEMINIST THEORY is also interesting, although it is very similar to the plain Feminist Theory. It deals with the critique and conteporary developments in continental philisophy. Their are specific French Writers, such as Chantal Chawaf and Catherine Clement who are labeled as "French feminist"