Narrative mode

Comparison between the Book and Film Version of a Rose for Emily Many filmmakers come up with movies that are based on fictional and non-fictional books. Some filmmakers develop films that largely borrow from the book versions and sometimes utilize the plot as it appears in the book. However, others develop films that have some variations with the book version. A Rose for Emily is a good example of a literary work that exists as a print and as a film. The film version came much later after the…

Laura Mulvaney, in her 1975 article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, describes the male gaze as being driven by “ the unconscious of patriarchal society” which is demonstrated through the “sexual differences which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle” (57 Mulvaney). Thus, within film there…

Pulp Fiction is a film directed by Quentin Tarantino, which stars John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson, and it was released October 14, 1994. It takes a very different approach to film by using a vignette style with each vignette not necessarily in order. It follows the lives of several characters that revolve around the gang boss Marcellus Wallace, and how they intertwine. Vincent (Travolta) and Jules (Jackson) are two hitmen for Marcellus and they are charged with…

The collaboration needed to make a film, much less a quality film, is enormous. Many people are needed to make a production work: screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, etc. The director is one of the most important elements and his or her interpretation of a screenplay can make or break a film. As stated in Persistence of Vision: An Introduction to Film Appreciation, “An auteur is a director that has garnered enough influence that they have total artistic control over the entire…

Languages in Julius Caesar, is unique because many of the dialogues spoken by the high-class citizens are not written in a typical Shakespearean rhymed iambic pentameter; they are mostly written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. For example, in the long conversation between Brutus and Caesar about Calpurina’s dream, notice the rhyme pattern, “This dream is all amissed interpreted;/It was a vision fair and fortunate:/Your statue spouting blood in many pipes./In which so many smiling Romans bathed,”…

All people perceive the world through different eyes. Viewpoint is a powerful tool that has the ability to drastically alter an entire piece of literature. A good narrator is determined by their ability to deliver the author’s intended purpose effectively. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author, Mark Twain, chooses an interesting and debatable narrator. Despite Huckleberry Finn’s youth, he is a suitable narrator for this novel because he gives the audience a unique…

that folk culture has had on him. He creatively weaves past and present tense within his nonlinear narrative. Using color symbolism, Mo conveys themes and ideas without having to flat out explain them. Mo knows how to concisely impact his readers. Having grown up surrounded by folk culture— at it’s core, the passing of stories, skills, and arts from…

Sometimes the clearest method of defining what something should be is by juxtaposing it with something that is the opposite. In literature, authors often use the literary device of a foil to convey the central theme of the story. The foil is effective because it shows both the good and the bad versions of people that share the same status or position in life, yet they develop differently. Shakespeare uses foils in many of his plays to depict the theme, however, Henry V is one of the obvious…

EA 3.2 Literary Analysis: character analysis An individual’s persona and character can have an ongoing effect to how they react to events. However, it is how they react to these particular events that can affect the overall purpose of the author’s text. In which, this all relates to Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, as Okonkwo’s personality traits lead to how he reacts to certain cultural events. These events being, the disruption of a new western culture slowly gaining dominance and…

Short stories have a habit of being quick and to point the point; they also enjoy sharing a theme or lesson to their audience, no matter the word length. A & P and Orientation are two short stories that share commonalities and differences. Both scenarios feature first person narrators, who observe their daily surroundings and remark on the current event. However, both also have significant incidents that create their climax, revealing different facts and revelations about the main character.…