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Despite the shift in context from 19th century England to late 20th century Beverly Hills, Austen’s main plot and ideas have been retained to a great degree. However, the different ways in which these ideas are portrayed in Clueless, as well as the variations from Emma’s plot, provide new insights into both contexts and hence emphasises the contextual influences that cause the changes. Through the consideration of Austen’s 19th century context we gain a deeper understanding of the impact of class attitudes on people’s behaviour and relationships. Social hierarchies are addressed through Mr Elton’s denial of Harriet and the corresponding action of Elton’s rejection of Tai. The character Mr Elton represents the class based attitudes of 19th Century England when he claims that “everyone has their own level”.
Cultural Lens Film Paper The cultural lens is a literary device used to look at text from a alternate perspective other than merely looking at a text through your own personal views and opinions, and instead focuses on gender issues, post-colonial ideas and the marxist view of life. As stated above the three seperate strands in the cultural lens are the gender lens, which obviously focuses on gender issues in society, post-colonialism focuses on groups forcing their will or exploiting another, adn the marxist lens focuses on the class struggles of society. One important thing about this lens is to keep and eye out for any subtle nods to one of theses lenses, such as doll consistently being referenced in a novel; which may seem insignifigant in other lense but after looking at it through the gender lens may have further meaning. In the movie "Letters From Iwo Jima" one notable instance of the difference in culture is when Saigo's squad commits suicide rather than surrender or face capture by the enemy. From a western viewpoint this may seem totally alien and far to extreme, but for the Japanese this was what they were taught, surrender or capture by the enemy was the ultimate disgrace upon you, your family and your nation and to die in fighting for your country was the ultimate honor.
Compare/Contrast Montag and Faber Fahrenheit 451 I am going to compare/contrast Montag and Faber in my essay. My three points of comparison are: desire for change, alienation, and jobs. I chose their desire for change because they both want to start a change in their society. Alienation because they both feel distanced from society or alone, and jobs because they both have jobs that deal with books. My plan is to clarify or demonstrate that both Montag and Faber are similar and different in the book Fahrenheit 451.
It also aims to reduce ethnocentrism meaning the tendency to use our own cultural group as the norm and judge others as deviating from this. Finally the aim is to also consider culture as an important independent variable and to readdress the balance in gender research meaning to do more in other parts of the world to see if it's the same. Research showing cultural differences in gender roles, was carried out by Margaret Mead who was a renounced anthropologist arguing in favour of environmental determinism. Mead changed her view in light of further research. The first was that she found that in all three tribes, it was the men who went to war, suggesting some traits such as aggression may be innate.
What Did You (Not) See? In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the experience of trauma in our century, both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it, we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. She argues that the language of literature and the psychoanalytic theory intersect at a site of knowing and not knowing. Caruth examines the way psychoanalysis, literature, and literary theory portrays and witness to bodily and historical woundings. Through the notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding is impossible.
When over analyzing What Sacajawea Means To Me by Sherman Alexie, its clear that the text has far more meaning when it is broken down into different lens like Deconstructionist, Gender, Marxist, Postcolonial, and even with a Reader's Response. Written intentionally in different contexts the author really does make you question what does Sacajawea mean to oneself. Is she a heroine or a villainess? Did she do what was right or what was wrong, should she be praised or should she be blamed.. We will never exactly know, we can only assume what and why things happened the way the did by processing history through various perspectives. Sacajawea although being recognized as the “mother” of america, everything she is and does is considered a contradiction.
This essay attempts to show how feminism have challenged mainstream, originally constructed from the men’s perspective, sociology and how does it try to change patriarchal society . To fully understand discussed topic, concept of feminism should be clarified. It might refer to social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities. Interestingly, feminism takes a form in a variety of disciplines, not necessarily related with social sciences. That include feminist history, feminist literally
* Post-colonialism can be an important part of literature it provides a way to apply differences between characters to real world foreign and political problems. When analyzing a text, how will I know when I should use this lens? * The kind of things you will want to watch out for are: * Any instances of victimization: * Who is the Victim? Are they a minority? * Who is victimizing them?