P2 Storyboard

For the second project, I would like to do an extension of my first project. For this project, I intend to explore the life of Arthur Hugh Clough, close friend to Matthew Arnold and a student of Balliol College, Oxford. I haven’t decided if the second project will be embedded within the first project or just loosely connected by the association of the two friends and their attendance at the same college. Arthur Hugh Clough fits into the MOO at Balliol College (248) on his own or if I connect him through Matthew Arnold, he will connect through the Balliol library (353), where I first met Matthew in the first project. Various other places to connect him are Oriel College (275) and University College (not yet in the MOO). If I choose to embed the second project, I will connect them at the elm tree where they used to walk together and where Matthew Arnold and I visit on my trip to Oxford. I will incorporate his character into my story and expand the dialogue to include him. The other option I am contemplating is a dream sequence that would fit into the first project after I go to the elm tree where I dream that we meet Arthur Hugh Clough there and the old friends are reunited as ghosts. It might also be interesting to relate to Clough’s experiences in America, since his family moved to South Carolina and he lived in the United States for six years before returning to England to attend Oxford. Topics of interest to explore with him would be his reasoning for resigning his fellowship at Oriel College, Oxford on the principle that he did not wish to be ordained in the Church of England, his radical political beliefs that led him to support the revolution in France, his experience as professor of English at University College Oxford, and his experiences helping his wife’s cousin, Florence Nightingale. There may be too much interesting information to fit it all within the first project, so I may just come up with a separate project idea for how I meet this ghost. I will of course explore his poetry and his friendship with Matthew Arnold, whether or not I do the project as an extension of the first or as a separate project. Would it be okay for me to do part of it as an extension of the first project and part of it as a completely separate project or does it need to be one or the other?

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