The Emotional Side of Creativity
"In a moment someone will turn on the light" In this essay I hope to illuminate them meaning of creativity. Creativity is a response to emotion that is innate and unique to each person. In this essay The Courage to Create by Rollo May, Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin, The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins, The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway and Amadeus, directed by Milos Forman will be consulted as sources.
Creativity is a response to emotion. Without it you can not partake in the creative process. "Sonny moved deep withing,exactly like someone in torment." "He has to fill it, this instrument,with the breath of life, his own." In these two sources it is evident that what makes sonny's music great is all the suffering that he has gone through, and the hurt that he still feels from it. This is mirrored when sonny says "it struck me how much suffering she must have had to go through to sing like that." Her experience gave her emotion, and from the emotion sprang the product of her creativity. Mozart used his emotion to create operas. This is most notable in what he created right after his fathers death. "So rose the dreadful ghost in his next and blackest opera." Right at the lowest most depressed time in his life he creates his most depressing work. Without emotion you can not relate to others and thus can not create something of value.
Innate is defined as "existing naturally rather than acquired; that seems to have been in one from birth" This is true for creativity. Some people seem to simply be born with their talent. Mozart was a shining example of this since his talent manifested so strongly. "Extraordinary! ... It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God." Mozart's innate talent for creativity exceeded his peers and he was rewarded for it. Another example of people who are innately talented are authors. Their talents are craved by others enough for them to make a living off it. "She liked what he wrote." This is the sentence that tells us why Helen married Harry. There are other reasons given, but it is the writing that was the root cause. In the end some people are just more gifted then others.
Everyone is creative in their own way. The most common areas are in these sources is the humanities. Mozart and Sonny were artists. The narrator from (i)The Yellow Wall Paper and Henry were writers. This isn't to say that they were the same in their creatively. Henry was a writer that wrote about his experiences in a factual way. "He had been it and watched it and it was his duty to write it." The protagonist writes in a fantasy style. "I would say a haunted house and reach the height of romantic felicity-but that would be asking to much of fate."There is not a bit of fact in there, which is very unlike Harry's style. Mozart and Sonny get there music from very different places to. If we are to believe Salieri, Mozart's music springs straight from God. The music is already formed and Mozart writes it down. "He'd simply put down music already finished in his head." Sonny on the other hand gets his music from his suffering. He plays his pain and it reflects. "I heard [in his music] what he had gone through." Everyone has their own way of expressing creativity, whether it's inventing gadgets or writing music. They just have to find it.
In the end creativity is a responce to emotion. Everyone expresses this responce differently and some are better at it then others.
David
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| Posted by gulyman | 15 January 2008, 14:55 GMT |
