...Tropes Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation A trope is defined as any rhetorical or literary device such as metonymy, metaphor, irony synecdoche that brings out another meaning of word other than the literal meaning. It is the use of words in a figurative manner. Trope exists in most work of art and they serve almost the same purpose. It is true that they have an effect on the viewers. This paper presents the effects on trope ion the minds and the whole being of the reader. They affect the viewer in the following ways. Viewers use trope on the basis of resemblance. They relate the tropes to the real event of the nature. Sometimes, resemblance is created through allusion, for allusion, the viewer must have prior knowledge of an event to relate with the current events. For instance, in the film ‘Bad Teacher’ there is actor allusion that brings resemblance; Jason Segel says ‘ am just fucking with you’ this are words used by the same character in the film, ‘There is Something About Mary’. In addition, the statement, ‘they do not do this song anymore’, is an allusion from Timberlake’s songs. This also tells us that he is a singer though part time. Concrete particular is another effect of tropes on a viewer. This means that when the viewer sees a trope in a film there is an image created in their mind and later it becomes concrete in the real world. In Bad Teacher, the character...
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...How do you explain the widespread villainous scientist trope? The global scientistic trope is something humans enjoy to create in films or in literature because the tragedies allow for humankind to evaluate the worst possible case scenario and fears of the future. Society uses these stereotypes of AI to show the frightening unknown future, however, the future is normally not going to end up the way we think it will. Similarly, the movie ¨Back to the Future¨ from 1985 depicted that in 2015, 30 years later, humans would have advanced technology to the point where we would have flying cars, various types of hovercrafts and self-lacing shoes, unfortunately we have none of the aforementioned technologies and it has been 3 years since 2015. These...
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...Trouble is a Friend of Mine is an outrageously wild journey within its three-hundred pages full of energetic sarcasm, unconventional characters that push the boundaries of what is normal in Young Adult contemporary, and a plot that likes to fly by you at the speed of a fighter jet - I didn’t want this crazy ass adventure to end. Zoe Webster, our protagonist, (in the stereotypical Young Adult trope) has parents that have just divorced which, in turn, forces her to move to a small, unknown town with her mother. As we all know from other novels which use this same formula, the main character ends up feeling depressed, bored, and extremely annoyed with whatever parent took her – in this case, her mother. Zoe has always been a lot closer to her...
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...The beauty in literate and film is the ability of the artist to mold themes and motifs to fit unusual circumstances and even give them multiple layers. The skill of applying a common trope to not just one obvious character but many within the narrative allows the story to relate to the human experience on a deeper level. Perhaps the most commonly explored trope is that of “sins of the past” specifically their effect on several generations. Director Guillermo del Toro represent this theme in his movie Crimson Peak through not just one main character but two, as well as through other unsuspected ones. Fully depicting the idea that everyone has sins and while the effects my not be felt immediately they will eventually effect someone or something....
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...Throughout the novel, Lee utilizes many different character tropes to support her protagonist. Most namely of these is Atticus, as he is the most prominent adult figure in Scout’s life. Through most of the story, Atticus has a very defined role in the town, being the voice of reason to all the chaos in Maycomb County. In a demonstration of the immense respect the people of Maycomb County have for Atticus, Scout is told to “stand up, your father’s passin’.” This act of respect has an even larger impact when put into context. In this scene, the trial had ended, with Atticus and his client on the losing side. Despite this defeat, the coloured people of Maycomb still felt it necessary to acknowledge their gratitude towards Atticus. Along with being...
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...The first common western trope used in True Grit is the good guy vs. bad guy. In this film, there are several “good guys.” First, there is Rooster whom at first seems mysterious and cold. However, his bravery and nobility shine through as he rescues Mattie from the snake pit and and tirelessly carries her to safety after her horse falters. The other obvious good guy is LaBouef, who returns to helps to rescue both Mattie & Chaney towards the end of the movie. Our two protagonists spend the movie hunting down the “bad guys”, who in this film are Chaney (the heartless renegade who murdered Mattie’s dad), and Ned (his boss and fellow renegade). The second common trope used in this movie is a final showdown. In a grassy pasture, Rooster comes face...
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...Hollywood in the early 1900’s. To create fantastical worlds based off the “American Dream”. A dream of becoming the best that you can, a dream where everyone is seen as equal and can become as successful as they wish to be. Commonly, this “dream” state of movies is shown through the relationships between characters, increasingly the “buddy-trope” is used especially in Western style movies. This Western style was first created in the James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pioneers” as a transition between the English historical romance and the American western. In this novel, he paints a picture of a small...
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...Wharton wrote in 1901 one of her first ghost stories: “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell”. In this story, Wharton unfolds with mastery different narrative techniques, extracted from her readings that allow her to “send a shiver down the readers' spine” (Zaugg 3). This story has clear influences from authors like Henry James or Edgar Allan Poe in the elements used to create an uncanny atmosphere in which the most obscure and hidden secrets of a married couple are the key for terror. It is not a supernatural story, despite the apparent presence of a ghost, it is a story about the difficulties and problems of an abusive marriage and “the vulnerability of the feminine self (…) through the trope of the literary double” (Murillo 770). Wharton's story is notable...
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...Although the idea of an asteroid colliding with Earth is common trope in science fiction, the threat of such an event is very real. Thousands of asteroids and comets in our solar system have been identified as possible threats known as near-Earth objects, or NEOs. Though many are relatively small, even small asteroids can cause disproportionate devastation. Due to the threat NEOs pose, they are being monitored by government agencies. Several methods of protecting the planet from collision have been proposed, though currently none are being actively pursued. Near-Earth objects are defined as comets (icy bodies) and asteroids (rocky bodies) that come close the Earth during their orbit around the Sun. These objects can range in size from a few meters to several kilometers. So far, 11,573 NEOs have been discovered. Although most are small, over 800 are larger than one kilometer in diameter. Objects are further classified...
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...Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a website that hosts videos and commentary analyzing portrayals of women in popular culture. She has received particular attention for her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which examines tropes in the depiction of female video game characters. In 2012, Sarkeesian was targeted by an online harassment campaign following her launch of a Kickstarter project to fund the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series. At the same time, supporters donated almost $160,000 to the project, far beyond the $6,000 she had sought. The situation was covered extensively in the media, placing Sarkeesian at the center of...
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...Ishmael Reed has received more critical responses than almost any other contemporary African American male writer. In spite of Reed’s ongoing conviction, as he and other black male artists have been misrepresented and virtually ignored, the press, scholars, students, journalist, fellow writers, and other assorted groups have studied his work. Born February 22, 1938, Reed has produced, since the Publication of The Free-Lance Pallbearers, five novels, four books of poetry, numerous reviews and critical articles, editor to five issues of major small multicultural press literary magazine, and collected two books of essays. To this day, Reed is considered to be a major literary leader of third world press, and continues to been a very affluent and busy writer. Throughout his wide-ranging works, it becomes apparent that Reed incorporates the impact of Afro Americans on the culture of the United States in the corpus of American letters. His tone and style are sometimes of satire and parody, but his intentions are deadly stern, as evidenced by his numerous essays advancing his major contribution—in the art of neo-hoodism. Recently, critics have inadequately labeled Reed’s fiction, and have deemed his collection of works as less interesting than his earlier, more notorious writings. To the naïve reader, these novels seem more straightforward in their plots and messages, and seem to have a much less tentative technique. However, the ostensive clarity is in fact part of a much more...
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...fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him”, suggesting that the intense love they had for one another will forever be problematic. It is important here to focus on Nelly’s use of the adverb “too”, as it describes that Catherine’s love towards Heathcliff goes beyond average. When having to choose between Heathcliff and Edgar, Catherine concludes “I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own”. For Heathcliff, Catherine refuses to eat or sleep and also willingly exposes herself to a chill when she is feverish. Here, Catherine’s love towards Heathcliff has resulted in a form of mental anguish, a gothic trope. Not only this, but it also suggests that the greatest love story within Wuthering Heights is explored through acts of violence, another gothic trope. It is also due to Catherine’s immense love for Heathcliff (alongside social position and stability) that she chooses to marry Edgar; she will “aid Heathcliff… with [her] husband’s money”. Unfortunately,...
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...case of horror films [...] this “complex range of queerness” circulates through and around the figure of the monster, and in his/her relation to normality. (Doty quoted in Benshoff 99) Crucially, rather than explicit or overt queerness this research will investigate manifestations of queerness as literary tropes, analogies, allegories, metaphorisations, metonymies...
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...The Greater Good in Eye in the Sky Directed by Gavin Hood and written by Guy Hibbert, the independent British film, Eye in the Sky, is a thriller which centers around the premise of assault drones. The film falls between multiple subgenres of thriller, with elements of war film and crime drama. Several relevant criteria factors into this kind of genre including political and technological themes, suspense narrative, and an unexpected conclusion. To rank the criteria in order of genre importance suspense would be foremost, followed by an unexpected conclusion, and lastly political and technological themes. Using the aforementioned criteria to evaluate Eye in the Sky illuminates the manner in which the film adheres to – or defies – genre tropes. Ultimately, Eye in the Sky is a relevant and emotionally challenging work of film mastery....
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...Our media is a reflection of our society, and unfortunately our society often mirrors that reflection. How can we claim to be a progressive culture when we regurgitate the same problematic tropes that have plagued our society for centuries? We are always exposed through television, the Internet, movies, radio, advertisements, the—list is endless. Even during infancy, we have internalizing media that has likely been our first exposure to many new concepts. If we take American hegemony into consideration, then our country’s media is being assimilated into countless countries throughout the world. The assimilation of westernized sexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia is being internalized by Western and non-Western people alike. Our criticism...
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