Narrative

Hollywood cinema is widely viewed as narrative with most viewers seeing films only as entertainment and nothing else. And most movies are for entertainment, providing a story with a narrative form or also called Classical Hollywood Cinema. This includes forms of narration, sound, editing, cinematography, etc. Anything you find in the normal classical cinema such as the Marvel movies, Disney movies, or the endless remakes of Planet of the Apes movies. All these films are similar in style because…

Stories and narratives are two words that are often interchangeable. In the context of literary preservation however, distinction has to be made. A story is a body of text that focuses on the subject, time, and space (Smith, 1981). A narrative instead ignores all these aspects and focuses on the plot. It is a story stripped out of settings, purely as a series of events (Abbott, 2008, p.20). By this definition, in the perspective of a narrative, Cinderella and Mulan may not be two different…

central protagonist of the film Pulp Fiction where John Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, finds himself at the wrong end of several narratives including a diner that gets robbed, a busted job, and going out with the bosses wife who over doses on his drugs. Vega lacks any sort of Providence and eventually finds himself gunned down in a bathroom. If anything a narrative structure exposes itself expressing the opposite of what Freud suggested, instead of a character protected we find one at a…

The game Every Day the Same Dream is an artistically narrative game by Molleindustria. Although the narration may not be the game’s strongest point, it still plays a significant role in the representation of the game. One of the strong qualities of video games is the ability to give players the power and freedom to affect the story by making intriguing choices. In many of the games, the decisions a player makes could affect the ending in many ways such as providing a different cut-scene compared…

As humans, we often assume that our sole purpose in life is to be happy at all times. Consequently narratives such as our physiological system, experience and culture systems on have taken advantage of this assumption and marketed happiness to vulnerable people who desire to attain happiness. In the article, “Immune to Reality” by Daniel Gilbert, the author discusses with the readers how our psychological system markets positive thoughts during negative situations in order to make us happy.…

Similarly, Lyotard argued that “knowledge is situated in meta-narratives.” Therefore, with regard to Blake’s oppositional perspective on Deism, one can draw the connection that Blake’s usage of meta-narratives in his work as a poet—to grow closer to God through a theoretical means of knowledge acquisition—was in sharp contradiction to Deism’s method of growing closer to God by empirical…

career, and construct a new life. Furthermore, this paradigm teaches clients to use work to their advantage. Counselors first examine how the client has constructed his or her career, usually through short narratives (Savickas, 2013). Next, the counselor…

This writer’s statement will allow me to evaluate and express my creative decisions for how I compiled both my narrative and my persuasive oral presentation. My narrative, which I have not named, as I could not think of a name suitable for the piece of writing. It was based around the theme of together but alone. Immediately, both my own and my sister’s past experiences at school came to mind. This allowed me to write a fictional piece, that was based on true stories. Compared to my…

periods and mediums (e.g. pedimental sculpture and amphoras). With this construct in mind, this paper will analyze one particular calyx krater in order to determine how it fits into the existing taxonomy of narrative as defined by Stansbury-O’Donnell and then compare the piece to other similar narrative scenes for further context and support. The primary piece of study is a red-figure…

living in. There is also a way to see that the child is a marker of past, present and future. When looking at childhood, we can also see that one of the main points is that it is a literary narrative, meaning that it is telling a story, and we can see that childhood can be a big part of their literary narratives. In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” David Foster Wallace’s “Incarnations of Burned Children,” Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” Ursula Le Guin’s…