Ben's+Final+Project+Part+Two



Part Two: My favorite Project Well we’ve done a few projects this year, all of which were good in my opinion. The one project that I think I enjoyed the most and got the most out of was the Archetype project. I learned a lot about characters in literature and film of all periods of time. I had never really thought about how characters tend to repeat themselves over time, and this project taught me that. My archetype was the tragic hero. Upon doing more research, I found many good examples of this archetype in film and in mythology. There was Oedipus in Greek mythology, Samson of The Bible and others. In film there are many, a lot of which aren’t even worth naming because archetypes are repeated often and a lot of the time the film is not even good at all. The one I chose was David Drayton from the movie //The Mist.// I almost feel like I settled when I chose //The Mist// because I had difficulty finding a good example from film. I spent a lot of time trying to find the example I wanted, which allowed me to discover a lot of examples of the Tragic Hero and its many appearances throughout literature and film. To go even further, the project got me better acclimated with the whole Wikispace system. I learned how to create new pages and how to get things in the places I wanted them. As I briefly stated before I did find some challenges in this project but I worked through most of them. It got to be a little frustrating when I couldn’t find a second source from mythology, but Mr. Masson helped me out there and told me I should use Samson from The Bible. I typed the entire project on the Wikispace engine which got to be frustrating because it is very slow and doesn’t always pick up spelling errors or grammatical ones. I learned how to get around this though by typing my project in Microsoft office and then copying and pasting the finished product into the Wikispace. In my opinion, the final product was very good. I think that I did a really good job on the written part and the presentation. I wasn’t 100% satisfied with the film example, but at the same time I thought it showed the archetype pretty well. This project taught me a lot about the different archetypes and also how to use the Wikispace. I really liked it a lot and I think it’s one of the few that I actually liked doing.