...characters in a way that portrays the characters to be exaggerated colonial stereotypes. Characters are the most vital element of a stage drama; they create the link between the audience and the drama. It is through Jack Davis’ writing that we are led to feel particular ways about most of the characters. No sugar is a play that makes an impact. Jack Davis has chosen not to construct realistic characters, but instead characters that fit into and even sometimes challenge the stereotypes placed on Aboriginal people. Although some characters are exaggerated stereotypes there are also many that aren’t. Every character is constructed in a different way, through dialogue and action. No sugar focuses on the hardships faced by an - albeit stereotypical of the 1930’s - Aboriginal family during the continued colonisation of Australia. Gran is the matriarchal figure of the family; she is the one that tries to ensure the continuation of the Nyoongah culture. She is characterised as strong and often stubborn. Her stubborn attitude throughout the play represents, in some ways, Aboriginal stereotypes. The way that Davis has constructed her creates a bond between her and the audience; the audience becomes attached to her. Through Davis’ choice, Gran’s spoken language is colloquial, accentuating her culture and creating a stereotypical Aboriginal character. The colloquial way in which Gran speaks reflects the stereotype of the 1930’s that aboriginals were unable to communicate in the same way...
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...all seem to be very limited if not overlooked completely. Many of these tend to be as token gestures or stereotypical to fit with the dominant ideology. To explore this further I will be primarily looking at the representation of Gypsies in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, a TV programme produced by Jenny Popplewell shown on Channel 4. I will also comment on other representations of gypsies in the media such as those in Snatch and The Traveller Times Online. In the media, gypsies are portrayed in a negative light. Every single media product stereotypes them as dirty, tramps and thieves. We see this everywhere, in magazines, films, TV programmes and Documentaries. A good example is the article titled ‘Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves?’ it varies in different words that are linked with negativity throughout the whole article. While including examples from Snatch, the article says ‘Messages of gypsies in Snatch are deeply negative, putting us, the audience in a superior position’. This clearly shows the negativity of them in the media. Only 300,000 gypsies and travellers live in Britain. Only small part of them are in TV programmes and other forms of media therefore the representation is disproportionate to their population. Not all Irish Travellers are dirty or thieves. My Big Fat Gypsy Weddings is clearly produced purely for entertainment reasons. It started off as more of a documentary however after the dominant readers started to demand more, the facts and choices of what scenes to put...
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...In the novella of Mice and Men and the TV show Fargo, the idea of masculinity and its surrounding ideas are played with allot. From the idea of a male partnership to animal symbolism, these texts show similar events happening to similar collections of people, however, these two texts are different in the audience that they are appealing towards. In Steinbeck’s novella, it is very much a piece of its time, being centered around the great depression and a man's struggle to find work in these hard times, very much reflecting on Steinbeck’s own life. Whereas Fargo focuses more on the ideals of the American dream, following a lowly ‘failure’ of a man as his life gets ripped from him. The idea of the traditional Lone Wanderer is portrayed in both...
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...The systematic institution of racism constitutes a systematic accumulation of effort that goes unnoticed behind the façade presented to the audience. Hidden agendas surreptitiously make the effort to facilitate subordination of the disenfranchised and powerless amidst the easily perceived promising future of equality. In the following response, I will argue the integration of humanist ethical ideologies that illicitly and surreptitiously generate racist ideologies that subjugate the colonized non-Western “other”. Social Darwinism, eugenics, imperialism, nationalism, cultural relativity, and multiculturalism are the main ideas that support my argument which will be subsequently elaborated on. For centuries, the doctrine of white male hegemonic enslavement has dominated, degraded, and dehumanized the disenfranchised and powerless from the privileged. The beliefs, values, culture, and ideology that all these different number of systems of thinking would create the knowledge of humanitarian effort to intervene in trying to justify and clarify racism without question. Universalism helped to fuel the binary opposition of the colonizers versus the colonized. The binary system is far from valiantly subverting stereotypes, such manufactured ideologies are deeply invested in upholding stereotypes, which in turn generates the idea of “difference” and this difference plays a role in sustaining racism. In other words, if words like “progressive” and “civilized” are tied to the group “colonizers”...
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...Stereotype Archetype Every human being has called for aid at least once in their lifespan. So why is it that, in literature, the female character is the most often the one in need of the most help? Women are so stereotypically needy that the origin of the first word that is selected in the archetype of the damsel in distress is another word for woman. Yet, as represented in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a man can be the character in anguish. This unique book was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886. The iconic plot, inspired by the fears of the Victorian era, has served as a template for modern books and films. The novel is about a man, Dr. Jekyll, who becomes addicted to transforming into a new persona, Mr. Hyde, and...
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...Student Name Student ID XXXXXX Date History “Emergence of Racial Equality in America” In his short essay, “The Preconditions for Racial Change,” author Harvard Sitkoff argues that economic, political and ideological considerations played a major role in bringing about racial equality for African-Americans in the United States during the middle of the 20th century. Sitkoff maintains that the introduction of televisions into American homes, a booming postwar economy, the decolonization of many African nations from white rule and the emergence of the United States as the leader of the Free World were the driving forces behind bringing racial equality to the forefront for many Americans, both black and white. The arguments offered by Sitkoff regarding this awakening in many Americans are both compelling and convincing. While his viewpoints are based on nothing more than perception and opinion, his logic is sound and his line of reasoning is very persuasive. Sitkoff begins his essay by discussing the opportunities afforded to blacks as a direct result of positive changes in the American economy. With the explosive growth of our Gross National Product (GNP) after the 1940’s, many blacks saw a sharp increase in their income, the availability of jobs in industries that had previously been off-limits to them and advancement opportunities that ranked them alongside their white counterparts. In the past, the fear...
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...All over the world, racism is still a major factor. Racism is discrimination against a race that a person believes is below them or there’s just a hatred for that particular race. I watched three different movies portraying racial stereotypes in various ways but the message was the same. The message was, we tend to judge people without knowing them. We look at their appearance and automatically assume the worst in them instead of giving them a chance. There are times that we can’t see the best in strangers but as soon as any race is stereotypes and we don’t like a certain person, we use racial slurs to put them down and try to make ourselves feel better when in reality we’re insecure. I believe that educators should be allowed to show films...
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...Human Rights Are for All Humans “America the brave still fears what we don’t know.” A loud and clear lyric from the song “Same Love,” produced by Ryan Lewis and performed by song artists: Macklemore and Mary Lambert. “Same Love” brings me to tears almost every time I hear it. This song has strong emotional pull and logical appeal in favor of gay and lesbian rights and equality. This is the fourth single released by rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis and one of many to hit a platinum status for the popularity and amount of sales in multiple countries, making it obvious that this single had caught the attention of the world. Singer and songwriter Mary Lambert is featured on the song in celebration of gay and lesbian rights based upon her personal struggle with her sexual orientation. On the cover of the single are two older white men, Maklemore’s uncle, John Haggarty and his partner Sean. The song itself is a strongly opinionated slue of verses rapped by Macklemore in a spoken word type of performance and sung by Mary Lambert, supporting gay and lesbian rights on principle of equality. Macklemore is the first voice to be heard, rapping eloquently about him thinking he was gay as a child in third grade. He explains that the reasoning behind him thinking he was gay was based off of his ability to draw, the association of his uncle being gay and his desire to keep his room straight. Reasoning that undoubtedly comes solely from social influence. At eight and nine years of...
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...political cartoons, videos and medical statics that would enhance my argument. First off I started with Prezi, which is a “presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there” (Prezi 2015). I thought the use of Prezi would help me better convey my argument while making it interesting to the audience. My next media to use in my remediation was Political cartoons (also known as editorial cartoons) which can be defined as “illustrations or comic strips containing a political or social message that usually relates to current events or personalities” (WW2). They can show Symbols, Caricatures, Stereotypes, Analogies, Juxtaposition, Irony, Captioning, and labels. By using political cartoons I can demonstrate tropes on both supporting and against, while persuading the audience. One such political cartoon depicts a women in a doctor’s examination table talking to her doctor after some testing. Her doctor is standing in front of her and he says “The bad news is your illness has no cure. However, the good news is we can manage your pain with medical marijuana. But the really bad news is I’ll be arrested if I prescribe pot. So…Take two aspirins a day and see me next month.” (Frank R). This particular political cartoon illiterates that medical marijuana can help people in...
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...Significance of younger characters – Eric, Sheila and Gerald The younger characters represent hope for the future and optimism at the start of the play. They have happiness, marriage and business success set before them. Ultimately, Priestley uses them to show that redemption from guilt is by no means inevitable. Sheila is presented as the stereotypical young woman who lives an idyllic life. Perhaps in that sense her name is an ironic counterpart to Eva. Eva suggests the biblical figure of Eve, representing all women. The ‘She’ of Sheila is supposed to indicate Sheila and Eva are both inextricably linked and bound together – one of the principal lessons of the play. Her diction reflects her initial happiness at the start of the play; she speak in a light, joking voice about “these purple-faced old men” who know all about port, and in “mock aggressiveness” to Gerald as the whether he might “object” to joining her family. Her life is mostly full of laughter and happiness. Priestley steeps Sheila’s initial words and manner in irony. Her playful “aggressiveness” towards Gerald is replaced by real aggression when she discovers his affair with Eva, Then she speaks “stormily,” suggesting raging and deep emotions. The joking about drunken old men anticipates the sexual assaults of “Alderman Meggarty” on Eva with his “obscene fat carcass.” The repulsion with which he is described reflects the immorality of his actions, and picturing his body as a “carcass” suggests that beneath...
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...I have chosen to evaluate a review of the new sitcom ‘Modern Family’. It is established that genres act as shortcuts and are ideological in nature. They serve to organise particular programs by providing artists with an understanding of its rules and conventions, audiences with an interpretative context, and institutions with a means to facilitate the sale of a particular media text to an audience. However, particular genres continually develop in an attempt to invent fresh concepts. Michael Idato’s review of ‘Modern Family’ highlights to a degree the traditional conventions of a sitcom, and examines how this program alters such a traditional framework in order to establish itself as unique. He also highlights the specific techniques used by the program to both capture and maintain an audience which involves a consideration of both program content and celebrity. Michael Idato highlights that ‘Modern Family’ consists of all the elements typical of a sitcom whose comic premise and structure revolves around a dysfunctional family. He recognises that its program content is derived ‘straight from the comedy playbook’ (Idato, 2010) as it explores the challenges of parenting, marriage and teenage romance which are so frequently touched upon. The diversity of the characters portrayed in ‘Modern Family’ inevitably allows for its interpretation as a traditional ‘character com’ (Aaronson, 2000, p.13). Its form therefore allows for the creation of opposing comic perspectives within particular...
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...Sin Nombre, loosely translated as “without name”, is an independent film released in 2009 under the skillful direction of Cary Fukunaga. Fukunaga, a film graduate from New York University, also attended a French university and carries a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Santa Cruz. During his studies and New York University, he made a short film titled Victoria Para Chino, a film about a group of immigrants who died in a refrigerated trailer when immigrating to America; The inspiration behind Sin Nombre came from that short film. In his first major production, Fukunaga continued his interest in the topic of immigration, and came up with the creation of Sin Nombre. The film follows both a young gangster of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, Casper, and young girl from Honduras, Sayra, on their difficult journey to America. Fukunaga’s overall reason for the film was to express the hardships Central American people face on their journey to America, in hopes that people could see immigration from a different light. The film is directed mainly towards citizens of America, Central America, and Mexico although it can spread to any area with controversial opinions of immigration. The constraints of the film include time, as the film lasted just 96 minutes, rating, the limited budget of an independent film, the dangerous filming locations in Central America and Mexico, and language— the film is spoken completely in spanish with english subtitles. These constraints...
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...1. Allegory- a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral 2. Alliteration- repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words 3. Allusion- an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; indirect reference 4. Anaphora- rhetorical term for the repetition of a word of the beginning of successive clauses or verses 5. Anecdote- a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person 6. Antagonist- a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary 7. Antithesis- a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else 8. Apostrophe- a punctuation mark used to indicate either possession 9. Archetype- a very typical example of a certain person 10. Assonance- in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables 11. Caricature- picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic 12. Climax- most intense, exciting or important point of something 13. Connotation- idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning 14. Consonance- agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions 15. Denotation- literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to feelings or ideas that the word suggests 16. Dichotomy-...
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...children. She is to put her family's welfare before her own; be loving, compassionate, nurturing, and sympathetic; and find time to be sexy and feel beautiful. The male stereotypic role is to be the financial provider. He is also to be assertive, competitive, independent, career‐focused, and always initiate sex. These sorts of stereotypes can prove to be harmful; they can suppress individual expression and creativity, as well as hinder personal and professional growth. Children learn gender stereotypes from socialization. Gender socialization is the process where children learn to develop behaviours regarding what constitutes being a male or female. Beginning at a young age, parents, school, peers and the media highly influence the gender behaviours children replicate and ultimately internalize. My compilation of media entries focuses on the progression and adaptation of gender stereotypes in the media. Over time, perceptions of gender roles have changed, causing the media to modify traditional marketing tactics to conform to them. I chose to organize my entries into three sections. The first category, incorporating the first three entries, provides examples of existing gender stereotypes in the media and consumerism. The following two entries fall into the second category, describing products and their accompanied advertisements that break typical gender stereotypes. The final section, incorporating the last three entries, illustrates various campaigns that raise...
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...by men, even if they are found in the middle of an intense battle, they show no signs of breaking a sweat, with their beautiful hair flowing in high speed shots and are lithe stylistically to make them look like an Amazon warrior with a ton of sexuality. I found this analogy true and very interesting as we were shown the clip from the Ridley Scot film, Alien. Here we see Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, as tough commanding officer of the ship, Nostromo, who is a women (a very distinctive choice among the many science fiction film where most of the lead characters are males) taking a break and relaxing. As the scene settles in, we see Ripley undressing and revealing her body which is very sexually stimulating. We are reminded as an audience that...
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