Storybook plan

Storybook

I am going through Dante using my favorite scenes in Virgil's sassy personality. I can't wait for him to interact with Satan, Cassius, and Brutus because their lives overlapped and they knew each other. I want get across the idea that Virgil wants more from life, still. His names are being said but he wished he wrote more.

Dante will stay have the same goal just more banter, with Dante. I will most definitely do them meeting and then Satan, when they meet, and when they meet important Romans.

Topic Research: Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno

- Virgil's perspective 

Virgil is Dante's guide through his experience, Dante is having a mid-life crisis and can't decide where to place people in hell (other versions). That has to get annoying. Also, from semesters of translating Virgil's works. I find him intelligent but inflated with himself. He might be a fun character to play with. His witt would make a great dialogue. 

 

-All Roman version

Dante mixes Greek and Roman stories to create his inferno. I could nix the greek characters, and add more Roman characters from the hundreds of years the empire spanned, reminiscing of the good old days. I would even like to experiemnet with a little bit of rivalry with the three-time periods of Rome. I do not believe the Romans in hell would be very repentant, so that would be a fun storyline to write. 

 

-Satan/deepest part of Hell

The character of Satan in Dante's works deserves more. He writes so little about him; he is scary. He is the last thing Dante sees. Also, he places Brutus and Cassius with Satan but is unsure about Caesar's place (Other works). He is very sure about the place of the planners of Caesar's demise but Caesar is not a good guy. I hate his Latin and also, he killed so many Gauls for self-glory. He only did good things for the plebians because he wanted political power. I havent even mentioned that he destroyed the Roman Republic. Caesar belongs there. I should put him there. He is Satan. 

Gaius Cassius

Topic Brainstorm

Topic Ideas

Dante's Inferno

- Dante is making his way through hell, purgatory, and paradise. He encounters his Italian contemporaries, ancient history, and his guide Virgil. It is founded on Christain Theology and Greco-roman culture. 

- Where does Caesar belong? 

- Brutus lowest level of hell+

The Sexton's Nose

-when sweeping in the church, he bought some roasted peas but did not eat the last pea. He gave it to the mistress of the bakery but the chicken ate it. He demanded either the chicken or the roast pea. 

-They gave them the chicken and he gave it to the miller's wife but their pig killed the chicken. 

-he demanded the pig but then they killed the pig for the daughter's wedding so he demanded the daughter and put her in a bag. 

-he wanted to throw the girl in the sea, but she had been replaced with a dog who bit his nose. He needed bread and tried to get it. And everyone needed something from him just like how he was until he went to the wagon maker.

Robin Hood

-a young man with a terrible temper. he kills 14 of the king's foresters but leaves one alive so he can tell the tale. 

-trickster

-He often disguises himself. 

-Maid Marian

-all in rhyme will be hard

Robin Hood and Maid Marian

The Giant of the Flood

- Noah wanted a unicorn and the giant og wanted to bring him one but Noah refused to save him from the flood. The giant was shrinking and scared. The giant gave him a unicorn but Noah kept him out of the boat. The giant threatened to sink the boat. 

- Noah let him eat some of the animals as a result. So, the phoenix and others were eaten, but Og had to be a servant to all his descendants. He learned about the grapes and sacrificed a monkey so now people get silly when drinking wine. 

-he was not killed until Moses killed him when he tried to break free