This ironic hindsight into the war also gives the audience a sense of the inspector's wisdom. He is portrayed as the conscience because all throught the play the Inspector is seen as guiding the Birling's away from sin, trying to teach them selflessness and responsibilty for others, in this sense the style of the play is one of morality.We see an opinion of responsibility through the inspector's attitude torwards the sinful actions of the Birling family. He attempts to make Sheila accept her share of the blame 'you're partly to blame'. The Inspector's speech on page 56 of the play clarifies for the audience and
Brecht consistently uses comedy throughout his play to make a darker point. However, Gold strays from this approach and instead heightens and adds comical elements in an attempt to amuse his audience further. One must remember that Brecht’s original play – even though an entertaining play – was essentially used as a didactic tool and that people chose wether or not they wished to come and view the performance. Gold’s adaptation of the play was made in 1972 and therefore targeted a very different audience – television viewers. It is for this reason that Gold has twisted (and even added to) Bretch’s wry, black humour into high comedy – in a bid to appease and
He discusses how, starting in the 1920s, he found himself growing increasingly bored with the theater, which he had loved all his life. The plays were competent enough, but they did not affect him on a personal level, the way that good art should. At length, Wilder traced the problem to the rise of the middle class in the nineteenth century. His explanation went like this: the middle class, then a new social phenomenon, did not want the sharp discomfort that art can cause when it makes one face reality and instead supported art that was soothing. One result was that writers began producing characters as broad types, which audiences could then distance themselves from, telling themselves that the concerns of the character on the stage were nothing like the ones they faced themselves.
They were fed up with this type of illusionary film and that’s when they decided to create the Vow of Chastity which had its own set of rules to determine if a film was Dogma 95 or not. The second Dogma 95 film The Idiots takes a problem like retardation and makes it liberating. In this film people pretending to be retarded try to prove a point by leaving their regular middle class lives and revolting by ultimately spassing. The film Dogville is the complete opposite of any Dogma 95 film with an imaginary set with no walls, Von Trier attempts to criticize small town America. In this essay I will compare the film Dogville to The Idiots and show how it refutes the ideas developed around a Dogma 95 film.
The audience learns as much as is known by Art Spiegelman of Vladek’s story, while still strongly emphasizing a major subplot of Vladek’s relationship with people in the modern day. This unusual writing style proves to confuse the audience when panels change between the past and present, but allows us to see a greater amount of flaws in Vladek. It feels real. He is human and imperfect, which is shown in his distasteful relationship with his son and wife. All in all, both styles
The main themes of love and violence clearly emphasise the clash and lead the audience to the conclusion that the realistic world of the Amish and the violent modern world should remain separate. The film provides the audience to view how cultures have many different morals and beliefs and the way that they deal with problems that they are faced with in everyday life. The audience is drawn into the culture clash when the key characters John Book and Rachel Lapp fall in love. We are drawn in by the use of various techniques and because their relationship had an ordinary beginning as Rachel completely resented John Book for forcing the modern world on her. Rachel's nursing of Book shows a developing relationship.
In a practical sense it maybe possible to change the way we look and act to belong to a group; but as demonstrated in the film Edward Scissor hand, our characteristics can both enrich and limit our ability to belong. The film follows the protagonsit Edward, whose unique characteristic of having scissors for hands, both enriches and limits his ability to find belonging. As a consequence of having scissors for hands, Edward finds that his ability to belong is limited as others see him as a destructive outcast, illustrated when the antagonist Jim harasses him,“You can't touch anything without destroying it! Who the hell do you think you are hanging around here, huh? Get the hell outta here!
Gregor demonstrates the individual, with the metaphor of a bug taking him to the levels of dehumanization and alienation that Kafka wishes to convey. The rigid institutions and practices of a modern society creates the burden of dehumanization and alienation in an individual. Gregor is undoubtedly made out to be a victim of the system, among other things. This is made apparent when considering his line of work, and the way that his family and his firm treat him in regard to it. Gregor begins to notice and acknowledge this when someone from the office first arrives in the flat to see why he isn’t at work.
Both Hindley and the Lintons treat him as an unwanted interloper and this obviously affects Heathcliff’s behaviour and attitudes within the novel. Subsequent to the death of Mr Earnshaw, Hindley is able to treat Heathcliff in any way he desires and therefore relegates him to the status of servant and seems to encourage others to do the same. Whilst Heathcliff wishes (if only temporarily) that he ‘”was dressed and behaved as well”’ as Edgar, he cannot avoid acting out his violent nature when Edgar is rude to him. Heathcliff seems to have learned some of his bad behaviour from Hindley whose ‘bad ways and bad companions formed a pretty example for Catherine and Heathcliff’ after the death of Frances. I believe that, whilst the treatment meted out to Heathcliff by these characters is obvious prejudice, it does not particularly affect him.
While Gregor comes closer and closer to his demise, his father and sister blossom, and his mother remains largely unchanged. The story begins with Gregor waking up and finding that he has turned into a bug. This is of particular concern to him, not because he is worried about his safety and the issues with becoming a beetle, but because he has to work. His family is incredibly in debt, and he is the only one of them that works. His family is fully dependent on his ability to work, and he never misses work.