From reading the Human Acts and learning more about the Gwangju uprising, I found the idea of the separation between the physical body and self very interesting. This got me thinking about what really marks death? If our physical body is the only factor to consider when classifying someone as dead or alive, then those…
“Submission: The husband is the head of the wife, and that’s the way it s, period.”
How is the novel relevant to you? (Try to think as broadly and deeply as you can about this) What have you learnt/explored about ‘authorial craft’ that is important moving forward and that you can conceptually relate to other (non-literary) texts?
The reader is a bit disorientated – where are we, who’s speaking, where’s it all leading? It sets up some intriguing questions. As the opening takes on a first person’s narrative in the form of a retrospective reflection, the reader is not given a comprehensive understanding of the setting. The first paragraph reveals the difference…
The global issue I would like to explore in my IO would be about the conformity to social norms and conventions, looking closely at the concept of conformity and perhaps what do people conform to and why. Both Edouard Manet and Bob Dylan have expressed the challenge and refusal to conform to such norms. Manet…
How does ‘The Times They Are-a-Changin’‘ explore the global issue of…? global issue: the need to respond to change in society
Dylan’s use of imagery… does it help him protest? Definitely as Dylan uses imagery to showcase the ridiculous nature of looking for communists as if they are everywhere, ‘in the air’, ‘on the ground’, ‘in my tv set’ or even on the ‘American flag’ which is ironic and therefore achieving a comedic effect. The ridiculousness…
In the song ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, Bob Dylan alarms the audience at the time of the consequences of the ignorance of the egotistical wealthy people, but similarly, such phenomena still exist in modern day society. The narrative of the song is particularly significant as the fairy-tale like narrative allows Dylan to explore the self-absorbed…
In the world of advertisement, there are 3 main stakeholders, consumers, producers and society. Advertisements are often crafted by the sellers, targetted to a specific audience but will also tend to have an indirect impact on promoting certain ideas in the society. I feel that each advert enters the market with an intended selling point…