Powers_Mythmetaphor



My mythological idea is to make a visual metaphor of the Grim Reaper. I am still slightly insure how I might interpret it, but I might have the Grim reaper standing watch over someone - waiting for them to die. The images that I would need to shoot would have to be of a person playing the grim reaper, a scene, and some props. It would involve people and a place or a set and costumes. I chose to do this idea because i found it interesting and wanted to delve further into the myth of a creature taking us into an afterlife of sorts. I wanted to also learn more on what exactly is the Grim Reaper. The myth I would say i'm basing it off of is the Greek gos Thanatos - god of Death, brother of Hypnos. His job is the escort the deceased to the underworld Hades. He then hands the dead over to Charon who mans the boat which carries them over the Lethe. Though I am taking the more English/American version, so insted of it being Thanatos I will be doing the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper is a personification of death. Death has been personified as a figure or fictional character in mythology. The reality of death has had a substantial influence on the human psyche - the personification of Death as a living, sentient entity is a concept that has existed in many societies since the beginning of recorded history.