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A seemingly simple and light read on the various cultures of the world. While selective in their choice of artworks to encapsulate in context in this textbook, analysis techniques provide insight to the (sometimes ancient) societies the works are derived from. Familiar jargon makes for an easy read, with short concise chapters and segments detailing further context as needed for a specific artistic method or process.

Vilette reads as a diary of the protagonist, Lucy Snowe, who is neither obnoxious or overly distasteful in her descriptions of her downfalls. I thoroughly anticipate her connection to Dr. John, whom I had accepted as the novel's romantic interest from his first (and second) introduction. The recount and retelling of Snowe's experiences, while not particularly innovative, offers a pleasant revival of our history.

Amazingly emotional. Best read out loud.

the first chapter was kind of boring. i dont really care about hunting stories. also there was a lot of confusion with whether the wolf was a faery or a wolf, and a really anticlimactic ending w mc going “wow i wish i could care more but im a hunter”. we learned a little about the world… but mostly just about how bad faeries are and how they affected humans (badly).

so emilia is the best character! i really like her dynamic with her husband, its very interesting in a time where shakespeare only wrote one or two female characters (who were often seen as unruly when they didn't obey their husbands) so it's especially intriguing that a "rebelling" wife is the hero... of course, she had to die (unfortunate)! i also really loved emilia's and desdemona's dynamic. they should marry

"Avaunt! Be gone! Thou hast set me on the rack: / I swear 'tis better to be much abused / Than but to know 't a little/ [...] What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust? / I saw 't not, thought it not, it harmed not me: / I slept the night well, was free and merry:/ I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips. / He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen,/ Let him not know 't, and he's not robbed at all." (3.3.330)

the stages of a shakespearean tragedy taking form, with iago planting an obsessive seed in othello's head and othello doubting desdemona, rambling in long soliloquies about her unfaithfulness. "o curse of marriage, / that we can call tehse delicate creatures ours, / and not their appetites! i had rather be a toad, / and live upon the vapor of a dungeon / than keep a corner in the thing i love / for others' uses" 3.3

cassio had an interesting little spiel about alcohol and drinking. in a drunken lament he mourned his reputation, which he lost to the influences of his drink. he cries, "reputation is forever, while my body only lasts til death". iago tells him that reputation is often given to people undeserving, and those who do deserve it often lose it without reason.

what i understand so far: roderigo is in love with desdemona, who is brabantio's daughter, and brabantio is a senator. brabantio put a restraining order on roderigo bc he knows roderigo loves desdemona but he wants his daughter to stay "pure". desdemona falls in love with othello, who is a soldier that visits them often and tells them stories. (i ran out of room but this is how it starts anyway)