Sound and/or music can intensify or pacify the audience’s emotions, assist in story telling, and can be an element of the plot. In the beginning of this film, the invisible sound is used as foreshadowing. Duce’s voice (who is the hit man for the MacManus brothers) is heard in the background and used as a voice over narration. He says “When I raise my flashing sword, I will take vengeance upon mine enemies and I will repay those who haste me. O Lord, raise me to thy right hand, count me among the saints.” Also, when the MacManus brothers have their religious epiphany, Duce’s voice is again heard and he says “And I shall count thee among my favored sheep and you shall have the protection of all the angels in heaven.” At this time, the MacManus brothers decide to kill the evil doers.
White contrasts the sounds on the lake from his childhood with the present ones when mentioning a boating trip with his son: “In the old days the boats were powered by inboards “and when they were at a little distance, the noise they made was a sedative, an ingredient of summer sleep. . . But now the campers all had outboards and these made a petulant, irritable sound” (White), which displays his inability to accept the technological changes that come around with time, in places that felt very remote in his youth. As White walks down the wharf with his son, he mentions “I had trouble making out which was I, the one walking at my side, the one walking in my pants” (White), showing that although he wishes to relive the entire trip through his son, he is gaining a sense of awareness that he is an individual in a different position than in his past and his environment has also undergone change due to
Both Dawe and Slessor use powerful imagery to illustrate their anti-war sentiments. The two poems address the gravity of war and the awful sacrifices of men too young to die and the use of imagery in each adds another dimension and plays a crucial part in emphasizing the message of pieces. Imagery is used in both poems to create a sense of unification in death, both between the families of the dead boys as in homecoming when Dawe used imagery such as ‘the spider grief swings’ through the ‘wide web of suburbs’ as the news of death reaches each house and unifies the whole country in mourning. But a different type of unification in beach burial as Slessor unifies the dead soldiers from both sides of the war, ‘the sand joins them together’ in their graves, they are all labelled as ‘unknown soldiers’ and Slessor describes them all as ‘gone in search of the same landfall’. Another type of imagery that appears in both poems in the description of the war itself and the imagery used reinforces the brutality of it, so is the aim of both poems.
Cameo lighting in film is a spotlight that accentuates a single person in a scene. The light is just shining down on Michael and no McGuire (who is hiding towards the back of the room) this suggests that Michael is somewhat a hero, for him and son have completed what they have to do and can live happily. After, background lightning is used to reveal McGuire behind him, he then shoots Michael and we feel sympathy for him because he and his son won’t have the happy ending that they were waiting for. In summary, Sam Mendes uses a wide range of cinematic techniques in order for the audience to feel sympathy for the death of Michael
By personifying the sobs as “strangled”, the author is describing the magnitude of the sobs and screams. Humbaba was screaming as loud as he could, and pleading for his life. But the pity we feel doesn’t last long because Ekidu tells Gilgamesh Humbaba is deceiving him, and he has to die. Also the Cyclops from The Odyssey is depicted with certain human aspects to him. “When all these chores were done, he poked the fire” (195).
The diegetic sound of the bullets hitting against the soldier’s chest, helmets and the metal of the boat provokes an emotional response from the audience. As well as that, visual visceral imagery was a technique widely used in the opening scene in representing the true nature and horror of war which can be related to the days of torture in the medieval times, when people were eviscerated for their crimes and wrongdoings. An example of this use if when the soldier picks up his disjointed arm by his foot, portraying a pitiful image as he relies on his instincts to take back what belongs to
“Through the Tunnel” takes place on a vacation beach and the rocky bay next to it. “The young English boy stopped at a turning of the path and looked down at a wild and rocky bay, and then to the crowded beach he knew so well.” Jerry is an English boy on vacation with his mother and doesn’t want to spend his time on the beach anymore, but wants to explore the rocky bay where he finds the underwater tunnel he wants to go through. In “Brothers are the Same” the story takes place in the dry lands of Africa. “They live on the Serengeti Plain, which makes a carpet at the feet of high Kilimanjaro.” Taking place on the hot plains of Africa is where Temas will face the trial that will determine his rite of passage 2 into adulthood, the lion. Whether on vacation on a beach or on the hot plains of Africa, a trial is
Here the threshold is represented by the line he crosses when transgressing and creating the monster. There is also an argument that could be made for the "dark side" in Victor's sexuality. Hidden desires, such as Victor's unwillingness to consummate his marriage with Elizabeth or his dream of kissing his dead mother, arise. We can see this when examining the speech he uses when speaking on his wedding night. Saying the night is "dreadful, very dreadful" could be interpreted as Victor's homosexuality.
In “Dulce et Decorum est” one particular man is severely suffering from an awful gas attack. The gas is entering his lungs and drowning them, the rest of his friends have to merely watch as he is “Guttering and choking”. This would be a traumatic scene to experience as well as to witness; it would probably mentally scar the soldiers. At one point the Soldier dying directly asks the narrator for help, this is a very prominent part of the poem and emphasises the pure desperation. Also, similarly to “The Send Off” Owen continuously uses sarcastic and rude comments towards the government.
There are some direct similarities such as sex and confrontations, but we have to keep in mind that the people on the photos from Iraq are dead or tortured and the people in reality can leave whenever they want. That’s is a huge difference. The writer claims that the photos are a kind of a reflection of the moral (or the missing morale) in our society and culture. He questions why the soldiers would show themselves as heartless murders to the whole world. He explains this by describing how the soldiers has absorbed the attitude about the missing boundaries in exposure when in comes to television and communication and when they are in war and have the ultimate power compared to their prisoners the restrains disappear and things can get a lot more violent as they did in Abu