This is my proposal for an exhibit room in our advanced museum spaceship. I plan on showing four works of art that I believe is very important for our generation and the next. All four of these artifacts have a theme of moral choice; each one would be about one person making a decision that would cause some consequences. I imagine a big circular room with four doors and at the top of the wall, near the ceiling, would be the word “CHOICE” in big letters. All of these doors would contain the following works: <em>Hamlet</em>, a play by William Shakespeare; <em>Paradise Lost</em> a poem by John Milton; <em>A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette</em>, a painting by Georges Seurat; and finally <em>A Clockwork Orange</em>, a film directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Behind the first door would be the <em>Hamlet</em> exhibit. Inside would be a great long hall with artifacts related to the play. On display would be replicas of the manuscript of the play and a plaque with a biography of William Shakespeare. There would also be a sound booth so that people can listen to actors reciting the famous soliloquies such “To be or not to be…” and “O that this too too solid flesh would melt…” At the end of the hall would be a screening room for people to see film adaptations of the play. I would show the Lawrence Olivier version since it was the first sound film adaption of the play, and the Kenneth Branagh version since it was the first and only version to use the full text. Posters of the film will be near the screening room door. And right by the screening room, near the end of the hall, there will be a gift shop for people to buy the play and other Shakespeare plays. My goal for this exhibit is to show people Shakespeare’s trademarks and what exactly made him the greatest writer of the English language. The play contains some of the best traits one might find in Shakespeare’s plays such as psychological conditions of the human mind, which are presented in not only the title character of the play but also in many other characters.

Inside the second door would be the <em>Paradise Lost </em>exhibit. The exhibit would be the same as the Hamlet exhibit, having replicas of the manuscript to the poem and a biography of the author John Milton. The walls would include paintings with images from the poem that almost everyone is familiar with, including Gustave Doré’s <em>Depiction of Satan</em> (1866) and Michelangelo’s <em>Creation of Adam</em> (c. 1511). There will also be a sound booth for people to listen to sections from the poem. I want people to see how Milton has taken the story of the creation of the world and expanded it with more developed themes in good, evil, the universe, and the whole theology of religion.

Door three would contain the <em>Sunday Afternoon</em> exhibit. Inside there would be a long hall with other paintings by Seurat as he attempts to capture true colors and hue with the technique of pointillism. Then at the end of the hall, there will be the artwork itself for people to observe. It would fit into the theme of choice because of how all artists make a decision to how they want to express themselves. The style, whether easy or hard, would probably take a lot of practice to perfect, and hopefully the end result would be the artist’s idea of a masterpiece. I hope that people would see how this masterpiece defined the Post Impressionist period. This painting not only has great human-like shapes, but it is done in little dots of different colors to create a single hue. You can say that pointillism is the precursor to pixel images, and this is where it all started.

Behind the fourth door would be the <em>Clockwork Orange</em> Exhibit. When people will walk in, there will be a recreation of the Korova Milk Bar set from the movie inside. It would have everything including the mannequins for seating and dispensing milk. There will also be an intercom that would play the music from the movie including Beethoven’s Ninth Sympathy and Rosselini’s Thieving Magpie. The artifacts inside the exhibit would include the poster to the film and also the cover of the book, first edition from United Kingdom.  I would also have props from the film on display such as Alex’s costume and the porcelain phallus from the cat woman scene, as I bought them during a movie prop auction. At the end of the great long set, there will be a screening room that would show the film.  As a precaution, I would include a label on the door saying that no one under 18 can enter the room, since this is a very adult film. I want to recreate the surreal atmosphere from the film so that people could get the feel of the movie, feeling frightened and fascinated at the same time, but then again you may not know how people might react. I not only want to make this a real horror show experience, but also show how it portrayed violence and sex when Hollywood was being allowed to show taboo content starting in the early ‘70s.

Each room would have a quote from each work up near the ceiling that would carry the overall theme of choice. For the <em>Hamlet </em>exhibit, the obvious quote would be “To be, or not to be,” from Act Three, Scene One. For the <em>Paradise Lost</em> exhibit, the quote would be Satan’s decision to which path he wants to take: “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.” For the <em>Sunday Afternoon</em> exhibit, I would be displaying a quote by Pearl S. Buck where she said, “Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'” And finally for the <em>Clockwork Orange</em> exhibit, the quote would be the opening line from the novella, “’What’s it going to be then, eh?’” With all these quotes on display, I hope that people can see the connection between the four on choice. With these exhibits on display, generation after generation could learn the true value of free will and what decision you make could lead you to through these great pieces of art.
<p align="center">Works Cited</p>
Burgess, Anthony. <em>A Clockwork Orange</em>.  1961.
<blockquote><em>New York: 1986. Print.</em></blockquote>
Shakespeare, William.<em> Hamlet</em>. C. 1601. Print.

Milton, John. <em>Paradise Lost</em>. 1667. Print.

Genn, Robert. “Choice Art Quotations.” <em>The Painter’s Keys Resource of Art Quotations</em>.
<blockquote>Web. 7 December 2011.</blockquote>
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