Cultural hegemony is the domination and manipulation of one social group over another. Within this domination and manipulation, there is a struggle. The general public are mostly manipulated into thinking certain ideas, these ideas are inflicted on them unknowingly. This manipulation of the mind more often than not stems from many texts where the composer promotes their biases through stylistic choices. Types of texts that do this are novels, films and cartoons and more specifically Animal Farm, The Mission, and My Dying will.
A text, whether it be a novel, film or cartoon uses stylistic choices to express views on topics that revolve around cultural hegemony. Novels are a great text that when analysed closely can show the author’s biases. …show more content…
Another dual text is a comic as it contains written text and a visual image to present the author's biases. John Trever expresses his own biases concerning the cultural hegemonic topic euthanasia through his comic "My Dying Will". The source briefly talks about how it should be the individual's choice to choose whether or not they want to die by a doctors assisted suicide. The title crosses out the word "living" and replaces it with the word "dying" to directly link it to killing and show the audience that it is a wish for death when needed. The author's pro-euthanasia biases are shown through other stylistic choices as well. The author's concerns are communicated through punctuation to emphasise certain points in the text that carry a negative connotation. The capitalisation in “Persistent Vegetative State” is an example as it draws attention to the word. Underlining the word "not" makes it clear to the audience that it is against Trever's wishes. Even the list format used to describe who should not make the decision for him is an example of a stylistic choice as it draws the audience’s attention and like the other examples communicates the composer’s biases in a simple
A text, whether it be a novel, film or cartoon uses stylistic choices to express views on topics that revolve around cultural hegemony. Novels are a great text that when analysed closely can show the author’s biases. …show more content…
Another dual text is a comic as it contains written text and a visual image to present the author's biases. John Trever expresses his own biases concerning the cultural hegemonic topic euthanasia through his comic "My Dying Will". The source briefly talks about how it should be the individual's choice to choose whether or not they want to die by a doctors assisted suicide. The title crosses out the word "living" and replaces it with the word "dying" to directly link it to killing and show the audience that it is a wish for death when needed. The author's pro-euthanasia biases are shown through other stylistic choices as well. The author's concerns are communicated through punctuation to emphasise certain points in the text that carry a negative connotation. The capitalisation in “Persistent Vegetative State” is an example as it draws attention to the word. Underlining the word "not" makes it clear to the audience that it is against Trever's wishes. Even the list format used to describe who should not make the decision for him is an example of a stylistic choice as it draws the audience’s attention and like the other examples communicates the composer’s biases in a simple