Exploring Culinary Transformations in Babettes Feast: A Comparative Analysis

Lit 3015 Each thread literally only has to be 10-12 sentences. It does not to be extra long. A paragraph will suffice. Thread #1: Consider the major and minor characters--the reverend, his daughters and their suitors, the community, and Babette. What are the attitudes toward food we encounter as we learn about the different characters? What are the food attributes we associate with each? What meaning should we attach to these foods? Pick one character and write your post about that character as you ponder these questions. Thread #2: “At the word of ‘food’ the guests, with their old heads bent over their folded hands, remembered how they had vowed not to utter a word about the subject, and in their hearts, they reinforced the vow: they would not even give it a thought! They were sitting down to a meal, well, so had people done at the wedding of Cana. And grace has chosen to manifest itself there, in the very wine, as fully as anywhere." – Babette’s Feast One of the themes that emerges when we analyze the novella is the idea of transformations - both physical and spiritual. What are the different food/appetite related transformations that the novella brings to our attention? Are the effects of the transformations we observe the same for all or are there differences? Include a line from the text OR a screen shot to highlight one character’s transformation. Thread #3: Choose one specific ingredient, food, or food preparation and compare and contrast how it is portrayed in text and film. Identify your subject in the subject heading. Be sure to include the line in the text and describe how it appears in the film.  Use film terminology such as angle, shot, composition, framing etc in your descriptions of the film shots. Week 6 Analysis 3: comparing/contrasting text & film Instructions: This week, your written analysis comparing and contrasting the t