BY: Alyssa Salvador and Ruth Shin This photograph depicts Don John’s duality. The mirror represents the truth and the juxtaposition of the subject and his reflection exhibits the two sidedness of Don John. In the story Don John is not seen as a villain to the other characters because he has the title of being Don Pedro’s brother while also coming from a distinguished family and he uses this to mask his schemes. His villainous actions are all due to his label as a bastard, although no one in the plot seems to care of this title, he takes it upon himself to be what he is, a bastard. His self obsession over his label as a bastard consumed his consciousness and overshadowed his judgement. In the photograph the subject representing Don John is staring at himself which visualizes his obsession with his title and his reflection presents his authentic identity as a bastard and malefactor while his physical entity is how he is viewed by other characters, which is Don Pedro’s quiet brother. Our art piece expresses the scene where Don John is exposed of his evil doings. The process of making the art piece consisted of many adjustments to the setting as well as the model to get the image the we wanted. We chose a red hue for the photo because it fitted well with Don John’s evilness and his persona overall. The outfit as well as the background was made to look similar to the film that we watched in class. And we came up with the mirror idea by thinking about how we could show the duality of Don John. The most difficult part was adjusting the aperture and shutter speed. After the photoshoot we used Photoshop to make finishing touches by color correcting.

In this scene Beatrice is seen talking about Hero’s role as a dutiful daughter and out of love reminds Hero that she should and can be more selfish. Beatrice displays her sisterly love for her cousin by supporting her independence as who she is rather than a man’s daughter or someone’s wife. Their relationship displayed in this specific quote is most like a modern mother and daughter relationship; in today’s standard most mothers would push their daughters to be more independent. Beatrice's supporting figure is also seen when her loyalty is tested as Hero is accused of wantonness, and Beatrice is the only one who doesn't believe in the accusations. Beatrice’s continuous love and support for her cousin may be linked to their gender. Beatrice can relate to Hero because she understands what it is like to be a woman at that time and it is seen throughout the play that beatrice is not satisfied with the role of women in the Elizabethan society, who were seen as subservient to men. This quote is significant since it reveals the intimacy between the cousins as well as distinguishing the difference between the cousin’s thoughts on the role of a Elizabethan woman.

grete’s hidden voice For a second I forgot that Gregor turned into a gigantic insect. It was my mistake, I had come too early. I had walked in on him gazing into the sky. I saw it’s whole body, Gregor was gone. I can not accept that this insect was Gregor, I got chills just from looking at it. I have to keep reminding myself that this is Gregor now and I should support him through this until he turns back to human, then it’ll just be like old times, and he can still support me when I go to college. I should start praying more.