Following the recent Cold War, capitalist America’s controlling nature typically victimised plebeians on the basis of their political perspective. Through the employment of mise-en-scene where the campfire is placed in the middleground of the dark Atacama Desert, Salles creates a salient point which emphasises the disassociation of the Chilean miners from society. Ernesto’s authorial voiceover ‘tragic and haunting faces’ in conjunction with a close-up shot of their dirt-stained faces, the mining couple are presented as politically dispossessed. This draws sympathy from the audience towards the couple as they are victimised and oppressed due to American capitalism. Moreover, when being chosen by the mining company, the unsteady camerawork and constant switching of perspectives highlights the controversial nature of the conversation and presents Ernesto as an authoritative figure fighting the inhumane treatment of the impoverished in South America.
English Revision Task How have the texts studied in this elective challenged your ways of thinking about "People and Politics"? People and politics are able to represent their own ideas and perspectives by utilising different techniques to bring forward a stronger influence and convey meaning. The multiple methods and procedures in which to form representation has challenged my ways of thinking about 'People and Politics'. W.H. Auden utilises satire to communicate the negative perspective of dictators in "Epitaph of a Tyrant" (1939).
How does Golding present Piggy and Simon in the novel? Throughout the thought provoking and allegorical novel of ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding there are certain elements of Golding’s ideology that are represented through objects, the weather and most importantly the characters in the novel. During the time in which the novel was written, the war had just been won by the United Kingdom. Golding was disgusted by a lot of the things that went on during the war particularly the horrendous misanthropic Nazi regime and the apathy that the Nazi’s maintained around killing innocent human beings. As a consequence of this, Golding uses some of these horrific happenings to portray a message or even an extremely strong moral point through the setting and characters in particular.
Napoleon and Snowball originally strive to fulfil Old Major’s dreams but due to the self centeredness of Napoleon, among others, the tenets of Animalism are systematically undermined throughout the novel. Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka ridicules the hypocritical stances of society concerning racism. Similarly to the political cartoon, “Upgrading to cattle class” satirising the racial prejudice that is featured in society where Australians seemingly are more concerned about the treatment of cattle than the situation of Asylum seekers. Animal Farm expresses the nature of humanity through defamiliarisation, uncovering societal flaws through different characters representing different norms of society. Animal farm parodies the events of the Russian Revolution mocks humanity’s morally weak government foundations.
Finally, a cartoon about the Occupy Wall Street movement describes how the truth can mislead and warp meaning, thus creating perspectives that generate diverse and provocative insights. The role reputation plays is an idea that influences perceptions relevant to conflicting perspectives. In The Justice Game, Robertson accentuates his own perspective by juxtaposing the more progressive attitudes of his side of the case. Sarcastically, Robertson writes, referring to Judge Michael Argyle’s “novel campaign to end burglary by sentencing burglars to prison for life.”The word ‘novel’ provides sarcasm from the beginning, by discrediting Judge Michael Argyle QC, and pointing out that Argyle is a failed politician, ‘whose judgeship was a career consolation for the Tory MP he had tried several times to become’. Hence, Robertson’s perceptions influence the readers’ mind, which is exactly what he wants, and he continues to sway the reader’s perspective.
These two theories therefore characteristically contrast with one another. However, this essay will also argue that there is an underlying commonality that can be viewed. The first contrast studied in this essay will be the way in which both theories view the effects of colonialism on the developing world, based upon their epistemological stance. Argentina’s president Nestor Kirchner once noted at a summit that “In reference to Neo-liberalism… ‘US policy not only generated misery and poverty but also a great social tragedy that added to institutional instability in the region, provoking the fall of democratically led governments’.”(Gibbs, 2006, pg.275).This demonstrates the split in opinion between the neo-liberal, US influencers of modernisation theory and the post colonial, Latin-American and western influencers of dependency theory. It will be argued that this contrast in the two theories is the most important.
Unlike the previous countries, France viewed reason as their end and their ‘new truth’. Thus, France’s attitude on ‘latitudinarian’ is one of disdain. Under the reign of ‘reason’, the French began to overthrow their society rather than make reasonable improvements. There were constant rebellions and overthrow of powers, which led to the Reign of Terror. Conclusion: Although the 3 revolutions were
Analyzing socially critical themes in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Stranger by Albert Camus Word Count: 1469 Cultural and social criticism is a common characteristic of 20th century literature. Conveying critical notions through fiction, allows for artistic amalgamation of the real with the imaginary and of history with fabrication – rendering intertextuality and providing the reader with room for interpretation. Chronicle of a death foretold, a Latin-American blend of literary genres, critiques a culture within which murder is both, tolerated, condemned and arbitrarily judged. The Outsider, a French existential novel of the interwar period examines social bias regarding nonconformists. Despite fundamentally different literary styles, intents and origins, both works reveal postmodern influences adapted to the author’s respective cultures.
Not surprisingly, the result is not at all desirable and the animals find themselves in fact worse of then before. Orwell is clearly drawing parallels between the events on the farm and the events in Russia after the 1918 revolution. He intends it to be a warning to readers that they should not be easily seduced by socialism. He also strives to outline the faults in communism, and how turning a blind eye and allowing another to control you never works out in your favour. He uses many themes to convey his main points to this allegory, such as corruption, abuse of power and social order.
The story is an exploration of the difference between the savagery and civilization, and the colonialism and the racism which makes the imperialism possible. So it connects directly to modernism because modernism shows all the terrible and harmful destruction of the nature and the society. Heart of darkness’ style was very wordy and long, and the modernist literature style was also the same.