ENGL 396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: James Lapine, Rob Marshall, Stephen Sondheim

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 396
• Professor: Derrit, Mason

Document Summary

Relationship between adversity (ie. the woods) and achieving your goals (face adversity to make your wishes come true) What you imagine your dream to be may not be the best thing for you. Real life exists in a space of ambiguity not in binaries (good/bad, happy/sad, Reality can"t be constricted to good and bad why not just or express certain (cid:498)wishes(cid:499) (and in which spaces are these wishes constrained or. Families can be formed from fragmentation/chaos (end not a fairy tale ending, strange family configuration) The woods being a medium for them to express themselves. Fairy tales based on structures, not about interiority. Set up the structure (we think we already know this story) then mess with the structures. Start in a place that relies on structure and then breaking it rather than starting in a place of ambiguity and trying to explain.