Texts of many genres especially dystopia can help us better understand concepts and ideas of many potentially real world situations and issues. When viewing a text, there are multiple questions being posed towards the viewer relating to them and their context of the text.
McCarthy repeatedly reminds us of the desolate post-apocalyptic landscape created by a nuclear incident, and by observing this fictional world we are shown what could become of our own world through the very real threat of a nuclear war posed by powerful nations. In ‘The Road’ you can't go for more than two pages before reading something that describes the nothingness often referring to his surroundings as “Barren, silent & Godless” which makes us imagine their landscape …show more content…
During ‘The Truman Show’ we find out that Truman, was an orphan and was the first baby the ever be owned by a corporation and raised entirely from birth on a movie set. The way that the audience of the show watches on so eagerly knowing this goes to show how desensitized they have become to the immoralities of the entertainment industry. The audience is willing to put aside the feelings and emotions and wellbeing of another person for their own entertainment without a second thought. Truman at one point say “you’ve never had a camera in my head” this shows the emotional trauma caused to him but is accepted for the sake of public entertainment. The director of the show Christof also cares very little for the wellbeing of Truman, treating him as a prop not a person. This is shown in one of the later scenes of Truman Trying to sail away from the island Christof creates a massive dangerous storm to try turning him around exclaiming “he was born on the set he can die on the set". Whilst all that is happening the audience watches on excited to see what happens next not realizing that a real person could literally die just for their entertainment. This makes me question how the media can broadcast almost anything and people would watch it without realizing that there are very real consequences involved in making that
McCarthy repeatedly reminds us of the desolate post-apocalyptic landscape created by a nuclear incident, and by observing this fictional world we are shown what could become of our own world through the very real threat of a nuclear war posed by powerful nations. In ‘The Road’ you can't go for more than two pages before reading something that describes the nothingness often referring to his surroundings as “Barren, silent & Godless” which makes us imagine their landscape …show more content…
During ‘The Truman Show’ we find out that Truman, was an orphan and was the first baby the ever be owned by a corporation and raised entirely from birth on a movie set. The way that the audience of the show watches on so eagerly knowing this goes to show how desensitized they have become to the immoralities of the entertainment industry. The audience is willing to put aside the feelings and emotions and wellbeing of another person for their own entertainment without a second thought. Truman at one point say “you’ve never had a camera in my head” this shows the emotional trauma caused to him but is accepted for the sake of public entertainment. The director of the show Christof also cares very little for the wellbeing of Truman, treating him as a prop not a person. This is shown in one of the later scenes of Truman Trying to sail away from the island Christof creates a massive dangerous storm to try turning him around exclaiming “he was born on the set he can die on the set". Whilst all that is happening the audience watches on excited to see what happens next not realizing that a real person could literally die just for their entertainment. This makes me question how the media can broadcast almost anything and people would watch it without realizing that there are very real consequences involved in making that