Happily Ever After?

Prior to class, each of my classmates and I found various folk tales or fairy tales from a non-Western culture to be later presented. Mine told the story of a beautiful, Indonesian princess named Roro Anteng. In her beauty, Roro asserted that she did not want to be married. Consequently, when a giant came for her hand in marriage, Roro sent him on a seemingly impossible task to guarantee her single status. The giant, bent on building the one thousand houses demanded by Roro, he and his men worked quickly throughout the night. Since there was still plenty of time left for the giants to finish that last one hundred houses, Roro devised a plan to convince the giants it was already sunrise, an event that giants feared. Along with her servants, Roro was able to deceive the giants into believing the day had already begun before they had finished the rest of the giant's task. For that reason, it is said that the Roro Anteng palaces/houses still exist, though not fully completed, just as the giant had left it. With our own folk tales, each of us were then prompted to create a mask for one of our characters following the mask cultures we had discussed last week. I'm planning on creating a mask for the giant character utilizing Korean masks because I felt they best embodied the mythical nature of the giant whereas a Commedia mask would almost make the situation seem anachronistic.