harmonious of 4 Gods

The new book that we are reading in class is My love, My love written by Rosa Guy. This story is an adaptation of the fairy tale, little mermaid. The story is basically about the star crossed love between a peasant girl Ti moune and a rich boy Daniel. There are four gods which peasants believe in, Asaka, the goddes of the earth, Agwe, the god of the sea which also represents water, Erzulie, the goddes of love, and Papa ge, the god of death. Dualities between earth and sea, and love and death are represented by those god.

 There is a musical adaptation of this story, once on this island, which is our winter musical. If I was the stage manager, I would describe those four impressive characters by the costume, the way how they talk, gestures, facial expression, and their representative colors. First, Erzulie, the Goddess of love, will mostly have red and pink colored costumes. She reminded me aprodite in greek myth. She will be wearing very fancy clothes with red color. She will act nicely, but sometimes she will be a mean Goddess when She gets jealoused or mad. Erzulie will be the most unpredictable character among the four gods. Usually the image of love is positive, but also love has a dagnerous power that can make human to blinded person who doesn't care about anything but love. Secondly, Asaka which is the Goddess of the earth will wear a long green dress and brown wreath on her head. So that she can show the color of tree which represents the earth. The actor should be tall enough to show the authority and power of the earth. Erzulie and Asaka are both powerful and gorgeous Goddesses. However, if Eruzlie is a character like a girlfriend, than Asaka is more like a motherly character. When I think about Goddess of the earth, I can imagine the image of comfort and warmth like a mother. Thirdly, the God of sea, Agwe, will be a fatherly character. Even though the book described that they fight a lot, they still need each other and shouldn't be separated like a married couple. He will only wear a blue pants and nothing on his upper body or some body painting with blue color to show his masculine body off. Also, he will have a huge weapon like Poseidon's three pronged spear. Lastly, Papa Ge, the God of the death, will be the most mysterious character. He will wear all black clothes and white mask or all white clothes and black mask. If the mask bothers the acting, then it can be replaced by face painting. People usually only think about the negative side of the death. However, it is the natural part of human nature that happens to everybody. Also, some people come up with image of peace and calm when they think about death. Thus, to show that contrast, Papa Ge will have both black and white, not only the black.