Intertextuality

filmmakers (albeit mostly in the arena of independently produced lesbian-themed films), a gradual shift from tragic endings to more optimistic, yet sometimes implied, endings of reconciliation and overcoming a difficulty, as well as a shift in the intertextuality and interdiscursivity of films, namely by changing from being associated with reprimanding and restricting biblical and Greek tragedy discourses, through the comic genre, to self-discovery and love stories, then to genres emphasizing…

There are many different forms you can start writing a paper. Throughout school, English teachers have all taught different ways in how to write because no teacher is the same, and some of those teachers focus on different parts of the structure of the paper. While one teacher can focus on the spelling and grammar, another teacher will focus on the content of the sentence structure. It’s just a matter of knowing who your audience is so that the paper can be accepted in the discourse community.…

Keeping up with the Kardashians, is a reality docu-soap that presents the lives of the Kardashian-Jenner family on the television screen. The Kardashian-Jenner family members that are currently on screen, include Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner (formerly the Olympian Bruce Jenner), Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Scott Disick and Kanye West. This docu-soap has shown tremendous success ever since its first airing in 2007, with several spin-off…

When grounded upon Raymond Williams’ concept of the dominant society and the perpetual flux between filtering residual and emergent cultures, the existence of the novel by such definitions are placed into that of the former. Novels represent a notion of residual culture that has been deeply absorbed within the current superstructure as “they contribute to the effective dominant culture and are a central articulation of it” (Williams 1434), while creating more production for the base through…

"In order for individuals to change and succeed in life, personal challenges and obstacles need to be accepted and embraced". In most cases, failure can prevail to be more beneficial than success. Failure provides an individual with a drive to succeed and keep trying. Through the core text of Maestro, J.K. Rowling's speech "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination" and the film, “The Last Cab to Darwin', the audience learns that with experience comes personal development…

“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast’, that a thing must be loved before it is lovable” -G.K. Chesterton Growing up, we are accustomed to the famous phrase "Once upon a time", identifying ourselves with the heroine who triumphed over her evil stepmother and magically acquired the beautiful dress to enchant the charming prince. However, in this adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Angela Carter delves into psychic transformation, liberating her female characters from conventional…

In 1971, Elia Kazan told Movie magazine regarding the process of adapting Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, that: “I took the script of the play, and I just made the play. And that’s all I did.” Discuss whether the adaptation was as simple as Kazan makes it seem through a careful analysis of both the play and film of A Streetcar Named Desire. Adapting a text to film is a difficult task for any screenwriter. There are many challenges that must be overcome, including limitations…

With a mass of accounts from victims and witnesses of the Holocaust in both fiction and nonfiction literature, the representation of a Perpetrator first person perspective is rare. Littell constructs a character that allows this perspective to be fully exploited whilst Binet avoids giving his characters free speech and sticks to a more traditional omniscient narrator. Perpetrator narrative may be uncomfortable to read, however it is arguably required to fully understand Nazi power and give an…

confrontation and hesitation to approach resolution. Hamlet’s inefficient action in endeavouring his revenge as a result of his intellectual and moral concerns under his religious context is roundly reflected within the seven soliloquies expressing rich intertextuality and working of the central characters. Shakespeare's consistent intertextual depiction of Hamlet as a cynical man of inaction and a tragic hero corrupted by uncertainty and hatred . Forced him to revenge under diseased King…

Discoveries are a feature of human nature that offer varied life experiences which are transformational. Encountering transformative situations are key to finding your place in the world. Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1610), allows the audience to more effectively discover the world he had created, The Tempest relays how Prospero responds when he has the chance to deal with his traitorous brother. Similarly, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s film Me Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), articulates the notions of…