Narratology

Rizal’s 1884 diary can be used as a tool to obtain more insight about Rizal’s life during his 20s and his personality towards school, his parents, and colleagues. A diary gives a first-hand experience to the readers of Rizal’s thoughts when faced with dilemma, difficult or happy events. This is true due to the reason that when one writes his or her own diary, he will not write with reservations but instead write what comes to mind and what he may be feeling during that time. Rizal’s diary makes…

Human personality naturally changes over time. Sometimes it is sudden but more often it is a gradual change. Character development is practically a must have of good fictional narrative writing. It usually happens gradually as it does in nature to make the writing realistic but Roald Dahl uses striking changes in character personality to create an incredibly intriguing character. Mary Maloney in the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl experiences major, instantaneous…

A theme is a prominent aspect in any novel or work. A theme links the whole plot together and it helps develop the main message of the story. A theme can be defined as the psychoanalytical meaning of the work as it enables one to explore the work in depth. Furthermore, a theme allows an author to showcase their writing technique. In the “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, the absurdity of life is one of the major themes in the novella. The absurdity of life shows how meaningless Gregor’s life is…

The Great Gatsby comparison and contrast between the book and the 1974 movie. The difference between the ways the book expresses and shows the characters then in the movie, but the movie helps you understand the plot and storyline better. The 1974 movie uses vision to show the characters filled with emotion while the book uses dialogue. The Great Gatsby plot and setting in the movie and book are mostly the same. Most of the movie used things from the book, but some things were changed. The 1974…

3. Choose one film or an episode of television drama and write an analysis of its narrative, plot and genre. Outline the plot, make use of theories of narrative in your analysis, and provide an account of its genre in relation to the chosen film/episode and any relevant illustrative examples. Having been depicted on screen 254 times; Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed character in literary history, it is possible for one to study the development of cinema simply through the many…

The present study has made a thorough examination of the eleven films directed by TV Chandran made during the period 1989 to 2011 constituting his sample. The methodology applied for the same was semiology. Paradigmatic and synatagmatic analysis of the film text, and examined various signs and its signification, detonative and connotative means of the text, metaphor, metonymy, binary oppositions, dreams and hallucinations, historical allegories, codes, historical parallels, and Marxian analysis…

My connections examined the theme of Identity. I chose to use texts that have protagonists who decide to be someone they are not. My texts were The Talented Mr Ripley directed by Anthony Minghella, Mulan directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, Catch me if you can directed by Steven Spielberg, and Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccol. I chose three subtopics The struggle with identity, the desire to be someone else, and the negative effects this desire has caused. I chose these topics to make good…

The Gift of the Magi’s analysis “The Gift of the Magi”, by O. Henry, is rewritten in many different forms. There is a Mickey mouse version about a necklace and a harmonica. Most people remember the original version. This story ties different literary devices and plot all together. When the narrator talks and describes the place around them it helps set seen. Then the setting really pushes the fact that they are poor and that the setting helps the narrator. Also the plot is pretty standard, but…

Written Response 4 Most Persuasive Assertion Sigmund Freud's most plausible affirm in his essay, Creative Writers and Daydreaming, suggests an unyielding directive based on an author's creative process and pampering of their stories central hero or protagonist. Freud's assertion goes as follows, "One feature above all cannot fail to strike us about the creations of these story-writers: each of them has a hero who is the center of interest, for whom the writer tries to win our Sympathy by every…

The story of Xmas Jamaica Plain for the author Melanie Thon, holds a very strong and rich languages, and also contains a unique words of choice; by using a different elements of fictions, like symbolism, irony, and imagery, the author presents us too many themes that we could distract from the “Xmas Jamaica Plain” story. The writer was very diligent in her words of choice, each word in the story carried an additional meaning with it that. For example: The symbolism that the author used to show…