Music and Mirrors. The reflection of art

In these past few days in Spanish class with Dr. Taylor, we are talking about Georges Bizet, who went from a music prodigy to a famous writer of the opera. Our class mainly focuses on his most famous work, Carmen. I feel like I could talk about this for my blog since my research paper for AP Literature is coming up soon and I still need a few works to write about. Plus the main focus of this work is based on music, the Flamingo dance to be exact.

       Bizet was raised in a music family and destined to be a star in writing music. Yet later throughout his life, his music received negative receptions and he gave up this interest and began writing for a local theatre. Carmen was his best work yet and it became a classic.

 I’m not going to spoil the movie since it’s such a good movie so I am only going to give a brief synopsis and interpretation. This movie explains the unlawfulness and corruption of modern love. A jealous solider meets a flirtatious women which ultimately ends up in a tragic consequence.

       In the movie, Bizet uses the image of reflection to show the reality or fantasy of the events that occurs in the film. The reflection may be a vision or fictional event that goes on in the audience’s minds. The reflection is a symbol which represents art and life. It is used as a metaphor. There exists a huge gap between fantasy and reality and Bizet is using the reflection of an image to connect the gap between the two.
       Art is reflected in this movie. The creation of Carmen mainly emphasize the dance each character does and how music is incorporated in their lives.