Both Tim Burton, director of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and the anonymous writer of ‘About School’ examine the complications that people face living in a society that is not willing to accept difference. In ‘Edward Scissorhands’ Burton creates a character whose physical deformity and isolated up brining make it impossible for him to fit into ‘normal’ society. The anonymous poet of ‘About School’ describes someone who doesn’t fit in but seems happy in his own world. Society however, requires conformity and in the process, he is crushed. Although one is a text and the other is a film, there are similarities of techniques used in both such as significance of colour and imagery relating to hard, sharp objects. Cinematography is used in
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The system tries to make him conform him, but he loses his individuality in this process. ‘Difference’ is explored by techniques such as symbolism, repetition and imagery. The poet uses symbolism such as ‘square’, ‘tight’, ‘close’ and ‘stiff’ to show the rigidity in the dull world into which he is forced. The word ‘square’ is repeated many times in the text to convey the idea of and inflexible prison like situation. Symbolism is used frequently in the poem and is used to portray the main subject of the poem. The author enjoyed drawing as it symbolised his escape and also creativity from everything else going on in his world. His drawing “was all of him, and he loved it”. Another important technique is the colours. The boy in the poem sees the world as ‘red’ and ‘yellow’. Red meaning life and vitality and yellow representing the sun, warmth and life. The tone of the poem “About School” is sad, heavy and almost hopeless. “But he wasn’t anymore”, expresses how society can ruin a completely innocent boy, who only wanted to be unique, himself, but was forced to fit in with the others, and lose all hope. ‘About School’ is an example of what it is like to live in a world where there is no uniqueness and …show more content…
Edward is the creation of an elderly inventor who dies before he can replace Edward’s Scissors with conventional hands. The maternal Peg invites Edward into her home to be a part of her family. Her world is colourful but conformity is essential. He is initially welcomed by the community as an entertaining oddity, but cruelly rejected when things go wrong. Some of the techniques applied in this film are symbolisms, repetition and motifs. The symbolic use of colour highlights the distant differences between the two worlds. The colour black represents the gothic effect associated with Edward. The bright, pastel colours show the difference between Edward’s world and the suburbia. Falling snow is also a motif, it is repeated many times in the film. Snow represents the romance genre in contrast to the gothic genre. The scene where Kim dances when Edward is making the ice sculpture, pleases Kim as it never used to snow before he came. Edward tries his best to please Kim because he liked her. Hands are also a significant motif in the film. Hands illustrate more humanity than scissors. They indicate everything that Edward is limited from the ability to touch, feel, show affection for whom he loves and typical communication hand gestures. Edward’s ‘Scissorhands’ are what makes him different and unable to
The system tries to make him conform him, but he loses his individuality in this process. ‘Difference’ is explored by techniques such as symbolism, repetition and imagery. The poet uses symbolism such as ‘square’, ‘tight’, ‘close’ and ‘stiff’ to show the rigidity in the dull world into which he is forced. The word ‘square’ is repeated many times in the text to convey the idea of and inflexible prison like situation. Symbolism is used frequently in the poem and is used to portray the main subject of the poem. The author enjoyed drawing as it symbolised his escape and also creativity from everything else going on in his world. His drawing “was all of him, and he loved it”. Another important technique is the colours. The boy in the poem sees the world as ‘red’ and ‘yellow’. Red meaning life and vitality and yellow representing the sun, warmth and life. The tone of the poem “About School” is sad, heavy and almost hopeless. “But he wasn’t anymore”, expresses how society can ruin a completely innocent boy, who only wanted to be unique, himself, but was forced to fit in with the others, and lose all hope. ‘About School’ is an example of what it is like to live in a world where there is no uniqueness and …show more content…
Edward is the creation of an elderly inventor who dies before he can replace Edward’s Scissors with conventional hands. The maternal Peg invites Edward into her home to be a part of her family. Her world is colourful but conformity is essential. He is initially welcomed by the community as an entertaining oddity, but cruelly rejected when things go wrong. Some of the techniques applied in this film are symbolisms, repetition and motifs. The symbolic use of colour highlights the distant differences between the two worlds. The colour black represents the gothic effect associated with Edward. The bright, pastel colours show the difference between Edward’s world and the suburbia. Falling snow is also a motif, it is repeated many times in the film. Snow represents the romance genre in contrast to the gothic genre. The scene where Kim dances when Edward is making the ice sculpture, pleases Kim as it never used to snow before he came. Edward tries his best to please Kim because he liked her. Hands are also a significant motif in the film. Hands illustrate more humanity than scissors. They indicate everything that Edward is limited from the ability to touch, feel, show affection for whom he loves and typical communication hand gestures. Edward’s ‘Scissorhands’ are what makes him different and unable to