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I love my Humanities class. We so wacky.
Nov. 8th, 2007 12:13 pmSo we're going over Othello this week, a play which I found dull and depressing to start with and am now getting a bit more interested in. Part of our work involved breaking into groups and discussing possible AUs for the plot, given that Othello's been put into everything from a high school basketball star to a jazz band to a crime drama.
The results were rather amusing.
Our idea: Genderswap and go the Desperate Housewives route. Othella is a bright and upcrust suburban woman, and her neighbor Ingrid becomes very jealous of her success. She plots, along with her dumb blonde companion Regina, to frame Othella's husband Desdamon for having committed adultery with his masseuse Cassie. Plot devices involve Ingrid's timid husband Emil planting Desdamon's wedding ring in Cassie's office to prove he was unfaithful while he was in there.
The second idea: Othello in SPAAAAAACE, casting the titular character as an alien who gets made captain of the warship and Iago as his companion robot (since, supposedly, robots cannot lie) and ending with Othello putting Desdemona into the airlock and relieving the pressure, causing her to explode into an organic mist, leaving only her heart behind to, er, prove her love for him. Look, I didn't make that one up.
The third group just had the one girl going on about Gilmore Girls, which was less entertaining. But still. It all kinda rocked.
On the not so bright side: I have to write up a few lines on what spirituality means to me. Bugger if I know, and I'm not explaining Slaanesh to him if I can possibly avoid it.
The results were rather amusing.
Our idea: Genderswap and go the Desperate Housewives route. Othella is a bright and upcrust suburban woman, and her neighbor Ingrid becomes very jealous of her success. She plots, along with her dumb blonde companion Regina, to frame Othella's husband Desdamon for having committed adultery with his masseuse Cassie. Plot devices involve Ingrid's timid husband Emil planting Desdamon's wedding ring in Cassie's office to prove he was unfaithful while he was in there.
The second idea: Othello in SPAAAAAACE, casting the titular character as an alien who gets made captain of the warship and Iago as his companion robot (since, supposedly, robots cannot lie) and ending with Othello putting Desdemona into the airlock and relieving the pressure, causing her to explode into an organic mist, leaving only her heart behind to, er, prove her love for him. Look, I didn't make that one up.
The third group just had the one girl going on about Gilmore Girls, which was less entertaining. But still. It all kinda rocked.
On the not so bright side: I have to write up a few lines on what spirituality means to me. Bugger if I know, and I'm not explaining Slaanesh to him if I can possibly avoid it.
