In what ways have conflicting perspectives on events, personalities or situations been represented in the prescribed text and another related text? Interpretations of texts are painted by the representations of personalities, through events and situations. They enthrall the audience to reflect on characters’ vices and virtues, determining their true nature, and spawning conflict between their various perspectives drawn from techniques. These differing personal interpretations evoke conflicting perspectives in the audience’s minds. Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ and Michael Apted’s ‘Amazing Grace’ provokes election promises’ provokes audience’s interpretations of representation in texts, through the medium of political minds and situations.
Perspective is a complex matter, as it is derived from each individuals’ context and understanding of the nature of the issue. Thus, the concept of perspective is relative, meaning that each person’s views will be different from another, which creates, but does not necessarily impose, conflicting perspectives. For the purpose of this speech, the poems The Minotaur by Ted Hughes and Daddy by Sylvia Plath will be used to example the extremities of conflicting perspectives created. The Minotaur shows how Plath was a violent and manic person through the allusion of the myth about the Minotaur, a creature from Greek mythology, throughout the poem. Imagery is used to show Plath as an aggressive person, such as through the line “smash it into kindling”.
Advanced English Students Conflicting perspectives occur in everyday life, but in particular, texts. Shakespeare was well known for this, putting conflicting perspectives in his plays to get people to consider particular situations, personalities and events through the representation of the play. This is also relevant in present day texts, where conflicting perspectives are evident. To convey this, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar play and The Totality of the Bush administration’s failure in Iraq is stunning by Ezra Klein can be analysed. Analysing the language techniques used in the construction of the various texts enables us to gain an increased understanding into the way that conflicting perspectives are shaped and received by the audience.
Many of the exchanges between Petruchio and Katherina are rapid and vicious. Using Act 2 Scene 1 as a starting point, explore how far the structure and the delivery of comic languages can mask darker social concerns? The relationship between Petruchio and Katherina is extremely dysfunctional in Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare creates their dynamic as based around the issues of domestic and psychological abuse. Act 2 Scene 1 is used to be the point of which the issues start to become apparent, with the ensuing psychological and emotional effects on Katherina now she is being subjected to Petruchio entering her life.
• Which characters are facing an internal battle with their own thoughts or feelings? In the space provided below, name both conflicts, briefly describe each conflict, and explain how Shakespeare establishes it through the events of the play, the words of each character, and the actions of each character. Answer: Brutus and Antony are the characters clashing in this story. Brutus is the character facing an internal battle, because he likes Caesar as a friend, but he must kill Caesar for his country. In the end, Brutus decides that Caesar must die, but he will only kill him honorably.
The physical and emotional toll of war, of blood, of killing, of fallen soldiers, are too difficult to put into words. Tim O’Brien’s, The Thing They Carried, effectively exemplifies these tolls and the devastating consequences of them. The collection of short stories show that we must appear composed in war, in times of emotional distress, and through these unexpressed emotions, a story emerges. The lines between “happening-truth” and “story-truth” become blurred as the soldier incorporates both the seen and the unseen parts of experience. The emotion a soldier experiences cannot be understood by anyone except those in war.
Conflicting perspectives within texts challenge the audience’s perception of history by offering interesting and alternative viewpoints of personalities, events and situations. Through their careful choice of representation, composers explore the way such perspectives generate diverse and provocative insights into past events and people which alter the way we the audience understand these. William Shakespeare’s drama Julius Caesar and Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X both strongly represent the conflicting perspectives surrounding historically significant leaders and their infamous assassinations. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare utilises the dramatic form to represent the differing opinions of Caesar, generating diverse insights into the public
Inevitable tensions however characterize such relationships and often lead to a continuous power struggle between two opposing parties. Whilst the authority seeks to sustain its influence, individuals desire change in the face of suppression of their values. Kesey’s “Cuckoo’s Nest” examines one’s struggle against the authority’s repressive tendencies while Shakespeare Retold’s “Taming” explores one’s use of an unclear distinction between appearance and reality in defeating a misogynist authority figure. Each text constructs a conflicting relationship between the individual and authority which is characterized by the individual’s inability to accept the tyrannical values promoted by authoritarian
As the play goes on, Macbeth slowly looses his morality as he strives for more control whilst Lady Macbeth steps into a frantic stage of guilt. After killing the king, Macbeth starts to plot other evil undertakings as he becomes nervous that someone will take away his power. At one point he goes from wanting to needing the sovereignty, which makes him loose sight of his integrity. As Macbeth begins to immorally act in order to achieve what he hungers, the line between good and evil starts to fade. “I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” (3.4.136-138) In this quote, Macbeth is telling himself that because he has stepped into evil so deeply, it will be hard to go back to morallity because he will never be able to rid of this guilt brought onto him.
The conflict. From battles of love, to fighting for what you believe in, in every good story conflict is there. Whilst these conflicts may not always seem to be between sides that are obviously good and evil, once broken it is clear that all conflicts are based around these two sides. Not all conflicts seem to arise between sides that are simply good or evil, but if we break it down we can see that one side always posses more negative qualities than the other – therefore in the context of literature can be considered as ‘evil’. ‘The Tenth Circle’ – written by Jodi Picoult shows several examples of the different types of conflict, which often occur in literature.