2.3.2 Understand how medium affects messages

1. What is the role of a literary critic? What is one reason that a literary critic would compare two or more works about the same story or subject matter?



Interpret literature to find deeper meaning in it, and explain it to others so they can as well understand.


2. When a story changes medium, from poem to painting for example, how can that change reveal something about an artist's unique perspective?


You can better see the unique persepective of the poem



3. What are some major differences between Gustave Doré's illustrations and William Blake's illustrations?






4. What do monsters and heroes have to do with an author's or artist's outlook?






5. Even though Dante's Inferno is based on Christian beliefs, why is the Inferno not necessarily a reflection on all Christianity?