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In class, we talked about the relationship between art, time and love. One of the relationships we came up with was that “Great art transcends time” and “Great love transcends time,” as well. One thing I was thinking during that part of the class was how certain characters can be taken to represent one of these aspects. For example, Arne could be seen as the representative of art while Jennie was the figure for time and Eben was the representative of love. I configured the characters in this order for a few simple reasons. The first reason being that Arne’s qualifications for art seem to be more stiff and rigid than Eben’s. I chose to have Eben represent love instead of Jennie because ________. Lastly Jennie representing time seemed fairly obvious because she transcends times to be with her love. In this way, Jennie too can represent love, but Eben may also represent art being as he is an artist. If thinking about it this way, Arne could represent time because his art seems to be focussed on a different time in the artistic world. I feel that in order to gain a full understanding of these 3 aspects, we must assign each to a character and take a look at how that character interacts with the other characters aka the other aspects. To understand more fully, take a look at Jennie (time) and Eben’s (love) relationship. The fact that the love between them

April 23rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm