Blog Response #3

After reading about many different characters in chapter 4, I was drawn back to the part about "The Sneeze of Hercules"  The puppet was supposed to be percieved as being so big that all you saw of the puppet while it was on stage was its large nose or giant hand.  I like the idea of this puppet because it leaves your mind wide open for you to use your imagination about what the rest of the puppet would look like, you can make him look however you want, and that allows for the audience to be involved with the puppet show.  This puppet was made this way to show how large the puppet really was, and to make it "fit" into the show.  And again it allowed each person to picture the entire puppet in their own minds however they saw fit for the production.  The traits that the large nose or giant hand conducted through the show was its overall size, so that you could imagine how big the puppet was actaully supposed to look like.  I thought that the idea of making the puppet so large that it didn't fit on the stage or even in teh building, was a great idea.  They could have made the puppet as big as what would fit, and then made everything on a much smaller scale to try adn get the same effect, but I think the way that they did was much better becasue they the audience could compare the size of the puppet to themselves, and it again makes the audience a part of the play.