Binary opposition

Throughout the movie, Jamal’s life is portrayed in patterns of flashbacks from his childhood to his current life with support characters such as his lover, Latika and his brother, Salim, playing great roles. Throughout the movie, the use of the binary opposition “good vs. evil” is not only significant but also makes the audience follows along the story with irregular anticipation and…

These people including Lila Mae represent different factions with binary opposition: black and white, Intuitionists and Empiricists, Arbo and United. This binary opposition is a structure used throughout the book. Against its opposition, each faction tries to get its hands on the black box first to prevent its opposition from the black box, even though the black box is a messiah for both sides. It is only after Lila Mae realize Natchez is a…

The one thing for certain is this is a tale of binary oppositions, death and life. Life is seen in the defiant Prospero and his guests whom attempt to defy death’s wishes. The concepts of life and death are interrelated and connected in all aspects; it is unfeasible to have one exclusive of the other. The connotations behind these binaries are continuously deferring meaning to one another. Without life there is no death, and without death there is no life. The différance is cyclical in this case…

(Hall, 67) Hall uses the example of black and white to explain this notion. Individuals know what black means by contrasting the colour with its opposite, white. There are multiple binary oppositions which Hall states are used frequently, on an everyday basis to analyze meaning such as,…

simultaneously degrades the betrayals of friends and family to Hamlet 's cause of vengeance. However, this goal is undermined by the ambiguity with which the binary opposition of loyalty and betrayal is defined and portrayed in the characters of Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia, and Laertes, even to the extent that the instability of the opposition suggests there can be no fixed meaning to the text. When examining the motivations behind Hamlet 's character, his loyalty to his father appears to be his…

Ordinary Man" there’s a gender, the man, that’s condemning the opposite gender, the women, which is showcased through a sense of foreboding. The poetic song “I'm an ordinary man” is based on a divergent perception of gender, foreshadowed through binary oppositions which is seen throughout the music, the metaphors and in the diction of the poem. The music in "I'm an Ordinary Man" is an imperative element of clearly dividing the qualities and characteristics of…

offspring as the world she lives is suffering from declining birth rates. Atwood incorporates several features of dystopia such as the idea of power, totalitarianism, and war. Atwood also includes the features characterization, change and time, binary oppositions, the idea of dream-nightmare. Firstly, totalitarianism and power are very prominent dystopian features throughout the novel. The Republic of Gilead is a totalitarian and theocratic state that has overthrown the United States…

O'Sullivan et al. argues that a binary opposition is "an analytic category from structuralism, used to show how meanings can be generated out of two-term systems" (1994, p.30). This means that for instance words that means the exact opposite of the other. For example sea/land, male/female, black/white and so on. According Lèvi-Strauss, all contrast makes meaning (Lèvi-Strauss, in Taylor, L., & Willis, A., 1999, p. 72). The most important and also most obvious oppositions in Blade Runner is that…

“For, if it’s in Hegelian manifestation, the master-slave paradigm limits the field of recognition (or mutuality, reciprocity, equality) to the narcissistic gaze between similars, Ghosh exhumes, in the medieval exposition of slavery, a contesting form of recognition (of mutuality, equality, reciprocity) between radical dissimilars. The slim ‘facts’ of Ghosh’s medieval story testify to the complexity of such recognition.” (Gandhi 2003: 70) In his novel, In an Antique Land, Amitav Ghosh attempts…

In Media Studies, it is significant to state the difference between the narrative and story. According to K. R. Jennings (2015) “A story is a structured narrative. It has a beginning, middle and end. It typically contains other ingredients too, like characters and a plot.” Furthermore Jennings states that “a narrative, on the other hand, is a sequence of events. It has no standard form or structure. No distinct beginning or end.” Simply put, narrative is principally the order in which something…