Brainstorming Topics for Semester Project
My first topic that I came across that I might be able to work with the rest of the semester is the topic of Animal Characters of the Ramayana. I enjoy stories that are centered around animal characters. Upon doing some more looking into the subject I saw a heading called Campfire Animal Tales that caught my attention. I think using this could be a good way to tell stories. Create a setting where animals are setting around a campfire telling campfire animal stories. As far as animals in Ramayana stories I don't have very much previous knowledge about them, but this will most likely be my response to all of the topics I will chose. Buzzards are prominent birds in India so I thought I'd look at the birds of Jatayu to get more information.
The second topic title that gave me interest was Epic Battles. Who doesn't like an epic battle scene. I think that there is so much one could of with this topic as well. Subheadings of the topic included epic hero's and weapons that could be included into the story which would create many layers to the story. The problem may in fact be channeling down the information to a short story instead of writing a novel. I don't have any experience with these epic battles that we will look at here but I am familiar with epic Greek battles and these stories could be retold in a multitude of ways including one on one battles with in the war. I thought a good place to start was looking more into history of warfare in India in general.
A third topic that caught my eye was the Death Stories. I thought this was an interesting title to a topic so I did some further investigation and upon reading the opening paragraph it mentioned "Game of Thrones". If these stories include deaths in them as epic as that of the "Game of Thrones" series then it is definitely worth checking out. I think that there are many routes one could go with this. I, being a big fan of GoT might go in that direction with death not being the end of the game if you will. An article I checked out about rebirth after death and then redeath was about the Samsara and can be found here.
Lastly I was interested with the Elephants topic. I know elephants are highly regaurded in India and so the stories might reflect that. My girlfriend loves elephants so I think that it would be fun to learn some stories that directly deal with them. I am not sure if this would be my first choice of course and don't know even how I would go about telling stories but I'm sure it would be an interesting route. It was fun looking at all the different stories that have to deal with elephants. You can see all of there here.
The second topic title that gave me interest was Epic Battles. Who doesn't like an epic battle scene. I think that there is so much one could of with this topic as well. Subheadings of the topic included epic hero's and weapons that could be included into the story which would create many layers to the story. The problem may in fact be channeling down the information to a short story instead of writing a novel. I don't have any experience with these epic battles that we will look at here but I am familiar with epic Greek battles and these stories could be retold in a multitude of ways including one on one battles with in the war. I thought a good place to start was looking more into history of warfare in India in general.
A third topic that caught my eye was the Death Stories. I thought this was an interesting title to a topic so I did some further investigation and upon reading the opening paragraph it mentioned "Game of Thrones". If these stories include deaths in them as epic as that of the "Game of Thrones" series then it is definitely worth checking out. I think that there are many routes one could go with this. I, being a big fan of GoT might go in that direction with death not being the end of the game if you will. An article I checked out about rebirth after death and then redeath was about the Samsara and can be found here.
Lastly I was interested with the Elephants topic. I know elephants are highly regaurded in India and so the stories might reflect that. My girlfriend loves elephants so I think that it would be fun to learn some stories that directly deal with them. I am not sure if this would be my first choice of course and don't know even how I would go about telling stories but I'm sure it would be an interesting route. It was fun looking at all the different stories that have to deal with elephants. You can see all of there here.
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| Just a great painting of an elephant and rider by Mughal |
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