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Lilliput & Brobdingnag(Draft)

Trace Back

• Creation

There are many mythologies telling the beginning of human beings, and it usually uses the same model——after creating the world, the deity wants to make some creature which looks like him/her.Then he/she starts collecting materials( earth, air, water or other elements) to generate human beings.

• Lilliput

"Little people" have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Flores Island, Indonesia, China, Japan ,Native Americans and so on.

• Brobdingnag

"Giant" appears more in mythologies and legends which presents power, wild and primeval.

Multiple Media

• Literature

Jonathan Swift <Gulliver’s Travels> Kathleen Mary Norton <The Borrowers> Antoine de Saint-Ecupery <The Little Prince>

• Animation

Hiromasa Yonebayashi <The Borrower Arrietty> Shigeru Tamura <Glassy Ocean> <A Piece Of Phantasmagoria>

• Painting

Odilon Redon <The Cyclops>, 1898

World View(Technique)

• Sound
• Time

References

• Mythology&Folklore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa#Creator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issun-b%C5%8Dshi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_people_(mythology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro-pok-guru http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas (靖人）

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(mythology)