Ironically,
for my final project, I decided to use The
Tempest, the book out of the five books that we read in class that I
remember the least of since it was the first on we read. I knew that I wanted to make a pop-up book
for my project because it is original and cute, and really it’s not hard. I made a pop-up book for a project in Algebra
II sophomore year and Mr. Lawrence loved it.
I figured The Tempest would
translate best into a pop-up book with the magic and the spirits and island
scenes. Slaughterhouse Five would have also made a really interesting
pop-up book, but I felt that was beyond my artistic ability to draw the war
scenes and to accurately draw time travel.
Beloved and Othello had a lot of dialogue which I
didn’t want to have in the pop-up book.
So, The Tempest was the best
option for the project.
I think the
pop-up book turned out really cute.
There were a total of 3 people in my group; we each did about 3 pages
independently and then put the pages together into a book. The whole group was dance students, not
visual, and that in mind I don’t think our visuals were half bad. The book did contain a lot more human
characters than I remembered and expected to draw and drawing people was a lot
harder than drawing say a tree or a boat.
I got a little tired of drawing people towards the end and all of my
people have no hands or feet.
The page I
am most proud of is the page with Caliban under a blanket on the beach and Stefano
and Trinculo asking what he is. “Is he a
fish?” they ask. The character I am most
proud in the book of is Caliban. The
book just describes Caliban as a monster, but it never completely says what he
looks like, so for my book I had to imagine him on my own. I drew him closely resembling a human, but
with a few inhumane characteristics that make him different from everyone
else. He has some characteristics of
monsters that are commonly known to humans such as vampires (Caliban has vampire
fangs), elves (Caliban has elf ears), and beasts (Caliban has very noticeable orange
hair all over his body). Caliban has the
possibility of looking normal, but he is a monster, so I made him just
different enough for it to be known.
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| Drunk Stefano and Trinculo examine Caliban under a blanket |
From Shmoop.com, the character analysis discusses the debate that there
is about Caliban’s appearance and significance to the story, “Is this cursing,
would-be rapist and wannabe killer nothing but a monster? Or, is this
belligerent, iambic pentameter speaking slave worthy of our sympathy? Is
Caliban a response to Montaigne's vision of the "noble savage"? Is he
symbolic of the victims of colonial expansion?”
I believe Caliban is meant to symbolize what a monster really is, is it
a person’s physical appearance or the way a person acts. Caliban is the physical monster, but he does
not act like a monster. Antonio is the
real monster, wicked and evil, plotting to kill Alonso. Alonso is seen in the pop-up book on the page
where he is encouraging Sebastian to kill King Alonso. While Antonio appears just like all the other
people in the book (mostly because I do not have much variety when it comes to
drawing people), Antonio’s smirk on his face separates him from the rest and
shows his internal wickedness.
Shoomp.com explains Antonio and Sebastian as “disgusting,
but fascinating to watch.”
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| Antonio encourages Sebastian to kill King Alonso in his sleep |
This pop-up
book was a fun project and I’m glad I chose to make this thing.
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