Month: March 2021

Thetis can be seen as a poem about transformation and power through every stanza in the poem, we can see someone adapting and changing into something else throughout every stanza. We can see that they are vulnerable and weak, as there is a pursuer throughout the poem that can be seen at the end of every stanza. It can also be interpreted as her trying to run away from motherhood throughout the whole poem, but always being caught and not being able to escape it. And at the end of the poem, it says “so I changed, I learned,” and we can see this as her finally changing and transforming as a person, and accepting the idea of motherhood and her having to raise a child.

P&G made a series of advertisements that tackle the issue of racial bias in America today. P&G is originally known for its products, the ads that they have made really digs deep into the issue of racism as a whole in America, by looking into how black people are still treated today, with references to the past being made, while allusions can also be seen from the past. They made two ads that specifically looked into the lives of black people in today’s world and in the past. The first ad was “The Talk”, and the second ad was “The Look”. The first ad was a compilation of short videos, also known as vignettes, that go in chronological order, but then circles back until the first vignette were shown again. The first vignette was set as early as when the Jim Crow laws were first introduced, and all these scenes show a moment between a kid and their mother, talking about something that had happened to the kid, or the mother just being worried about their kid. For example, this screenshot from the video is the scene that is set in today’s world, and her mother is talking with her daughter to be careful when driving and being pulled over by a cop. We can see the worry and fear in the mother’s face, that something might happen to her daughter, and this shows that there are still such incidents happening that will still make mothers worried. The close shot of the mother’s face helps us see the facial expressions and what she is feeling.