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Class Assignments

Class Assignments. Short Papers 1) Captain Kidd paper a) TA has graded them b) Will be handed back today 2) Long Paper proposal a) Due Wednesday. 2) Treasure Island Paper 800- 1000 word paper based on the Robert Louis Steven’s Treasure Island and the movie Treasure Island

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Class Assignments

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  1. Class Assignments • Short Papers • 1) Captain Kidd paper • a) TA has graded them • b) Will be handed back today • 2) Long Paper proposal • a) Due Wednesday

  2. 2) Treasure Island Paper • 800- 1000 word paper based on the Robert Louis Steven’s Treasure Island and the movie Treasure Island • Due Wednesday 7th April • Can turn it in before • Compare book to movie (as before) • But ask how and why Stevenson and the Muppets have adapted history to suit their intended audiences • Consider how they have helped shaped our understanding of pirates

  3. Long Paper • 2800 – 3200 word paper • Based, of course, upon your proposal • Due April 21st • I will be happy to talk with you as you progress or chat with you about draft papers

  4. Piracy and Literature • Edgar Allan Poe • The Gold Bug • J.M. Barrie • Peter Pan • Gives us another of the great childhood pirate icons • Captain Hook • Action takes place in Kidd bay

  5. Barrie student a Edinburgh University • friends with another well known write of the era • Arthur Conan Doyle • Best known for Sherlock Holmes • But, also wrote tales of the sea and piracy • Captain Sharkey

  6. Another Edinburgh Student and friend of both Doyle and Barrie was • Robert Louis Stevenson • He and Barrie worked together on the school newspaper • And of course Stevenson was the author of Treasure Island • Which we will be watching on Wednesday

  7. Treasure Island & Robert Louis Stevenson

  8. Muppet Treasure Island • Cast list: • Captain Smollett – Kermit • Benjamin / Benjamina Gunn – Miss Piggy • Billy Bones – Billy Connolly • Blind Pew – Blind Pew Muppet • Black Dog – Black Dog Muppet • Dr Livesly – Dr. Bunsen Honeydew • Jim Hawkins – Kevin Bishop • Long John Silver – Tim Curry • Mr. Bimbo – A man who lives in the index finger of the Squire Trelawney Jr’s left hand • Squire Trelawney Jr. – Fozzie Bear • Big-Fat-Ugly-Bug-Face-Baby-Eating O'Brien

  9. “Explodes with Wit, Weirdness and Wildly Inventive Fun” • New York Post • Not however, the first film representation of the book • Over 50 movies and numerous TV adaptations have been made • Suggest the depth of influence that the story has

  10. Treasure Island movies • First I have been able to find is a 1912 version – very early • First ‘narrative’ movie Great Train Robbery in 1903 • Production Company – Edison • 1934 first ‘Hollywood’ version • 1971 Orson Welles as Long John Silver • Also co-scripted

  11. 1990 • Made for TV version • Charlton Heston as Long John Silver • Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins • Oliver Reed as Capt. Billy Bones • Christopher Lee as Blind Pew

  12. International • Zhiyaoweinihuoyitian (1993) • "Schatzinsel, Die" (1966) TV mini-series • Ostrovsokrovishch (1971) • "Takarajima" (1978) TV series

  13. Celebrity Treasure Island And of course the list would not be complete without

  14. But lets return briefly to the Muppets • Over 400 Muppet characters appeared in the film • Shot at Shepperton Studios in England • All the shots were indoors • Had a complete seaport with and 18 ton boat • Forty foot beach with palm trees and 200,000 gallons of water

  15. From the movies Press Packet: • Q. This is such a physical role. How do you feel you compare to other big screen action heroes? • Kermit: • Hmmm. I would have to say that I’m shorter than Arnold, greener than Sly, and I have less hair than Mel • Q. Were you aware that traditionally Polly is played by a parrot? • Polly: • Yeah, I’ve heard. But that’s just a stereotype. I like to think we live in a forward thinking society

  16. Q. Is this the first time you have had to sing while bound upside down over a cliff? • Miss Piggy: • Professionally, yes. But, frankly, it is none of your business what Kermit and moi do in our personal relationship • And finally the green man himself • “I do believe that Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote the part of the captain as a frog” • Kermit the Frog

  17. Who was Stevenson? • Born November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland • Father an Engineer • strict and powerful man • Believed to be the cause of the lack of strong father son relationships in Stevenson’s novels

  18. Treasure Island: • Father dies early in novel • Rebellious Jim Hawkins • Potential father figures in both Doctor Livesly and Squire Trelawney • Tends to gravitate more to Long John Silver • Kidnapped: • An orphan sold into indenture • Take up eventually with a Scottish Patriot against the British • Both cases unattached boy searching for an identity with a rebellious figure

  19. Also see conflict in his novels • Between the upright ideals of Victorian middle class life and reckless abandon • Obvious in Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • But also in Hawkins • Frequently turns away from the “right thing” • Leaving the ship • Running from the fort

  20. The idea of turning from the straight and narrow is also evident in Stevenson’s own life • While on a visit to France met and fell in love with • Fanny Van De GriftOsbourne • A divorced women, with two small children, ten years his senior • He married her – a very risqué and rebellious thing to do in Victorian British Society

  21. Stevenson’s tomb Mount Vaea • Stevenson would return to California with his new wife • Before eventually moving to the “South Seas” • Samoa in 1889 • Where he died in 1894

  22. The Map • Plays a significant part in the story • For the characters • It is a treasure map! • And for the understanding of the book

  23. In a review of the book W.E. Henley wrote • “Primarily it is a book for boys….But it is a book for boys which will be delightful to all grown men who have the sentiment of treasure-hunting and are touched with the true spirit of the Spanish Main” • It has been argued that it is the ‘map’ which • A) allows the involvement of adults into the novel • B) drives the novel

  24. Henley wrote of another moment when one Professor Beesley was discovered by his family in his study • “his history books thrown by . . . His Herbert Spencer all forgotten, sunk to the throat in ‘Treasure Island.’ He had a magnifier at his eye, and through that magnifier he was (historian like) a-studying the map of Captain Flint” • The map links • Stevenson - the man • through • Hawkins - the boy • to • Beesley - the man

  25. In addition the map is a manly not a boyish item • When the map is unfurled at Squire Trelawny’s house • Hawkins states that though the map was to him • “incomprehensible, it filled the squire and Dr Livesey with delight. ‘Livesey’ said the squire ‘ you will give up this wretched practice at once. Tomorrow I start for Bristol” • The boy unable to understand the map and is excluded from the beginning of the adventure • And of the story

  26. But what of the map’s creation • The initial idea for the book came as Stevenson sat with his stepson, Lloyd, in California and they drew the map • “the future characters began to appear there among imaginary woods” • Creation of the map involved a boy • But the creation of the story was from the mind of a man • Original map was lost (stolen?) and the final map was created from points in the completed story • Not from the imagination of a boy

  27. The map also leads Hawkins out of boyhood and into manhood • As the story, and hunt, progresses Hawkins matures • at the end of the story Hawkins the man has ironically (?) lost the desire for additional treasure • His nights are filled not with dreams of treasure • but nightmares of gold coins and the sound of Silver’s parrot crying • Pieces of eight, Pieces of eight

  28. Wednesday Muppet Treasure Island

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