Mean girls/ Julius Caesar Comparative Essay In the movie Mean Girls by Tina Fey and the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare there are many motifs. I will be specifically looking at motifs of betrayal from both stories that illustrate the theme “you have to be careful who you trust”. In the movie Mean Girls the main character Cady becomes very good friends with Regina George. Later in the movie Regina lies to Cady by telling her that she is going to hook Cady up with a boy, when really, Regina is trying to get with that same boy. Another example of betrayal in the movie Mean Girls would be when Cady gets all of Regina’s good friends to turn against her.
“An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich or limit their experiences of belonging.” Discuss this view with detailed reference to your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing. While the nature vs nurture debate still faces a hung jury, it is true that nurture, or our exposure to the outside world, plays a key role in human development, particularly concerning each individual’s evolving perceptions and experiences. Both the dramatic tension of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and Jon Turteltaub’s 90’s romantic-comedy While You Were Sleeping explore this concept, especially in regards to belonging. Characters from each text reveal that though belonging in its many forms is an inner need, it comes from, and is either nourished or left unfulfilled by interactions with the outside world. In Act One of The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses an omniscient overture to reinforce the secrecy of something “no hint of [which] has yet appeared on the surface” – that John Proctor, “respected and even feared in Salem, has come to regard himself as a fraud.” The next scene reveals the source of this dramatic loss of self-respect – Proctor has committed adultery with Abigail Williams, his former servant girl.
The Indian born protagonist, Jessminder, finds herself caught in the middle between her love for soccer verses her love for her authoritarian family. Her struggle is adamant from the beginning with the use of non-diegetic sound effects illuminating the juxtaposing British modern pop music against the cultural Indian music, establishing a segregated mood within the film. Jess’ inability to belong is amplified through the racial slurs made by the opposing soccer team using degrading comments such as “Paki” and “black.” Her family create a disaffection between them and Jess because of their strict views and lack of understanding to a modern British society that Jess desires to belong in. As a result, she is constantly rebelling and sneaking around in order to follow her dreams. In the beginning, Chadha uses isolating close up shot’s of Jess to exhibit her lack of connection to others but as the film progresses, wider shots are used involving the other characters.
Within the novel, Of Mice and Men, the author, John Steinbeck, uses flashbacks, interaction of characters, and symbols to foreshadow conflicts later on in the novel. The past of Lennie and the death of and insignificant characters can be easily overlooked, but are key in foreshadowing eventual conflicts. For example, back in Weed, Lennie had gotten into trouble for grabbing hold of a girl’s dress and not letting her go when the girl was screaming. Instead, Lennie held the girl even tighter because he was scared and did not know what to do (11). Now, Lennie thinks Curley’s wife is pretty.
McClelland is well known for being a great human rights reporter, although in 2011 she was considered untrustworthy when she wrote a personal essay about countering her PTSD with rape fantasy roleplay sex, with some journalists defending it and other journalists criticizing it. When it was revealed that McClelland had written about and revealed the identity of a Haitian rape victim against that victims' wishes on multiple occasions, some who had initially praised the essay condemned her for a breach of ethics. Anthony and Erin Rodriguez are a middle class couple living in Ohio worrying about how to make ends meet, due to a newly elected republican governor Kasich. Kasich’s plan cuts funding, and the budgets of city government and services. This could possibly hinder Anthony’s job with a budget cut of 51 percent.
The Relic is a poem in which Donne makes fun of the superstitions attached to the 'purely' platonic ideas of love; he also manages to satirize the society's blind prohibition against the attachment between the sexes. The persona addresses his beloved, with whom he has not yet been allowed to be intimate. They have only kissed out of the courtesy at meeting and parting, but not yet otherwise. John Donne John Donne He has taken a strand of hair from the lady out of love; and he has bound it around his wrist. Now he imagines that after some centuries, when superstitious people dig up the grave in order to bury another dead body, they will find this strand of hair around his wrist (still not decayed!)
Characterisation is extremely similar in the play and film. In each text, Macbeth has an extensive moment of doubt before murdering Duncan, and again, when the feat is completed, both feel dreadfully guilty. After killing Duncan they both know that they have done the wrong thing and were pressured into doing so by their wife. Instead of using a soliloquy, Brozel uses a slow dolly in onto Joe to underline the thoughts, emotions, and most of all regret that is running through his mind not unfrequently. This new uncertain and anxious Macbeth is just like that of Shakespeare's.
The Shark Net Summative Response Characterisation is how a character is portrayed and progresses through the novel. Drewe ‘splits’ Dorothy into two distinct personalities, defined by separate names, “it was dawning on me that my parents each had two names to suit their two different personalities”. (p.79) Roberts fathers euphemistic description of his drinking as ‘doing business’ (p.81) and occasional martial infidelities are contrasted with Dorothy stern moral; values. In Dorothy’s world, references to sex are not tolerated, as Roberts discovers when he innocently sings a mildly raunchy version of ‘Lady of Spain’. ‘Dorothy’ embraces Perth’s conservative morality, burying herself in the role of ‘the wife, the suburban mother’ and gradually
"Patsy had a philosophy of letting our kids experience whatever they wanted to do," John said in an interview with Katie Couric. "JonBenet wanted to try pageants, and she was an extreme extrovert and she loved to sing." The media did all they could to paint John and Patsy as the killers, even going so far as ignoring evidence that proved their innocence and spreading false stories that John Ramsey had been sexually abusing his daughter for years. The ample amounts of footage existing from JonBenet's days as a child beauty pageant contestant seemed only to add to the hearsay that her father might have been a pedophile. All of this pervasive and false media coverage has led most Americans to believe that John and Patsy Ramsey killed their daughter
It has almost become somewhat of a tradition, for ethnic minorities to always be related within a circle of violent behaviour. The media constantly targets youths from different minorities in ways where hegemony uses culture to promote power. In this case it would be the ruling by cultural influence where white people have the power and dominant control over people from ethnic minorities. Set in Long Beach, California, Freedom Writers (2007) puts forward this negative stereotype of people within the ethnic community belonging to a vicious crime filled environment. The characters within the movie belong to a segregated community, where each race is divided into separate tribes.