If you were to stage this novel as a play, how would you costume Desiree (Ti Moune) in order to show her as a member of the peasant village yet also an outsider, a dreamer who longs for something different? Would you show any connection to the Gods or to the rich and if so, how? Explain your answer.
Desiree (Ti Moune) is a peasant girl who devotes herself to the love which is a dream. She has really smooth skin and her body is shiny as the Jewel. Although she belongs to the peasant village, her mind actually is outside of the village. She is a character who has a quite mixed characteristic of peasant and rich, I would say. However she anyway belongs to the peasant group, so I will costume her as a peasant girl, such as one piece dress and barefoot. These costumes are to show that she is a peasant. To also show that this girl longs for the love, I want to make a connection with the god of love Erzulie. Therefore, as I imagined that Erzulie would wear pink and purple, I want Desiree's one-piece dress in pink and purple (maybe more like pink). Also, because the image of an outsider and dreamer seems like who are seeking for the freedom, I do not want to make her wear the hood that most of peasant women wear. Instead, I want her to let down her to look more freely. Lastly, because she later falls in love with the grande Homme who is from the rich side, I want to make the connection between her and the rich. Luckily the story said she has very smooth skin and shiny eyes like Jewels which seem like the trait of rich, so I want to emphasize it through makeup. For instance, (I don't know much about makeup) use powder to make a lighter-looking skin or use moist to make skin look shiny.
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