Generic conventions are used in Gattaca 1997 by Andrew Nicole and the pedestrian 1951 by Ray Bradbury work to an encourage an audience to view an idea from a particular perspective. Gattaca uses visual conventions of film to influence the western audience to view technology such as genetic engineering as being damaging to society from that the perspective of an anachronistic protagonist, Vincent. The pedestrian manipulates written conventions to construct social changes caused by advances in technology such as television as being harmful to society through the perspective of Mr. Mead. Both texts employ generic conventions to view technology as being damaging to society through the perspective of an anachronistic character.
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During the 1950’s, technology advancements allowed the average household to afford a television set. This causes a social change where people would stay at home to be informed about the world around them through television rather than going out and reading to obtain information. The Pedestrian 1950’s context shaped its construction to show these social attitudes through the use the protagonist, Mr Mead. Mr. Mead is constructed as anachronistic and underprivileged through his actions and their consequences in the story. An example of this is imagery in which “an entire street would be startled by the passing of a lone figure” when Mr. Mead goes out for a walk. This displays the social change in which society has become where everyone is at home due to the influence of television. At the end of the story Mr. Mead is arrested in which he questioned his about his “profession” and “what are you doing about” by a robot police car. Mr. Mead responds by stating that he is a “writer” and that he is “walking, just walking”. The police car stated that writing has “no profession”. This dialogue displays how technology has caused old forms of media such as literature to become obsolete. In the end Mr. Mead is sent “to the psychiatric centre for research on regressive tendencies” after getting picked up by the police car. The fact that Mr. Mead is arrested for walking around his local city displays him as being underprivileged. This is because such an innocent everyday act does not deserve such as out roughhouse treatment. Furthermore this positions the 1950’s reader to view technology as causing a harmful social change to society where the act of walking is considered as a “regressive tendency”. This scene positions the western reader to fear technology as it will result in a future where daily actives
Gattaca employs …show more content…
During the 1950’s, technology advancements allowed the average household to afford a television set. This causes a social change where people would stay at home to be informed about the world around them through television rather than going out and reading to obtain information. The Pedestrian 1950’s context shaped its construction to show these social attitudes through the use the protagonist, Mr Mead. Mr. Mead is constructed as anachronistic and underprivileged through his actions and their consequences in the story. An example of this is imagery in which “an entire street would be startled by the passing of a lone figure” when Mr. Mead goes out for a walk. This displays the social change in which society has become where everyone is at home due to the influence of television. At the end of the story Mr. Mead is arrested in which he questioned his about his “profession” and “what are you doing about” by a robot police car. Mr. Mead responds by stating that he is a “writer” and that he is “walking, just walking”. The police car stated that writing has “no profession”. This dialogue displays how technology has caused old forms of media such as literature to become obsolete. In the end Mr. Mead is sent “to the psychiatric centre for research on regressive tendencies” after getting picked up by the police car. The fact that Mr. Mead is arrested for walking around his local city displays him as being underprivileged. This is because such an innocent everyday act does not deserve such as out roughhouse treatment. Furthermore this positions the 1950’s reader to view technology as causing a harmful social change to society where the act of walking is considered as a “regressive tendency”. This scene positions the western reader to fear technology as it will result in a future where daily actives