{"id":906,"date":"2020-03-31T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=906"},"modified":"2020-03-31T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:20:41","slug":"appearance-vs-reality-and-pierrots-disappointment-in-a-puppet-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/jbaltayt\/appearance-vs-reality-and-pierrots-disappointment-in-a-puppet-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Appearance vs. Reality and Pierrot\u2019s Disappointment in &#8220;A Puppet Show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of Blok\u2019s <em>A Puppet Show<\/em> lays the foundation for Pierrot\u2019s romanticism of Columbine, his supposed bride. The three mystics contribute to this dramatization, their back and forth dialogue of one-liners gives the reader, and more so the in-person viewer of the play, a sense of suspense before her ultimate appearance. The author\u2019s interjections provide a brief sense of relief for the reader, but interestingly, these breaks are significantly shorter than build-up by the three mystics and Pierrot. While this gives us a sense of a break, its brief nature does not allow us to fully reset. Finally, the mystics proclaim Columbine arrives and Pierrot leads her to the center of the stage. The Chairman warns Pierrot that death has arrived, but Pierrot scoffs at the advice, minimizing the concern as fantasy. Even the author is in agreement, exclaiming that likening her braids to a scythe is defamation. Pierrot ironically says that he is either \u201can unfortunate madman\u201d, or that he is \u201cmisunderstood\u201d. It turns out he was in fact unfortunate, and the youthful Harlequin steals Columbine from him; Pierrot results to sulking. <\/p>\n<p>What made the build-up to this climax significant was its avoidable nature. Pierrot was blinded by the prospect of uniting with Columbine, so infatuated with the idea of her that he refused to listen to others. He was self-aware of his controversial position, noting he was \u201calone\u201d in his opinion. However, as everyone around him warned the hopeless romantic, he let his appearance distort the true reality.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of Blok\u2019s A Puppet Show lays the foundation for Pierrot\u2019s romanticism of Columbine, his supposed bride. The three mystics contribute to this dramatization, their back and forth dialogue of one-liners gives the reader, and more so the in-person viewer of the play, a sense of suspense before her ultimate appearance. The author\u2019s interjections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-9-the-silver-age-and-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}