“The General History of Virginia” by John Smith, and “The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano,” by Olaudah Equiano. After reading these two stories, I notice that they both had some similarities but many more differences. These two stories talked about slavery, the authors tell the stories in different point of view, they make different types of narratives, and they used totally different of settings, which makes the stories have two completely different ways to end. Even though they
Narrative theory relies on the notion of different narrative compositions. It is the determinant factor for the process of narration. In other words, narration occurs because of narrative modes. So, narrative modes and narration are the two sides of the same coin in representing narrative. Narrative subsumes many forms of literary genre. It includes: fictions, ancient epics and romance or modern novels and short stories. Abram (1999:173) states that narrative is found both in prose and verse: “a
Beyond this general idea of progress, the narrative of oil is also associated with individual success and is overall seen as a savior that can perform miracles for humanity. However, it also is the cause of some social and environmental injustice. An other narrative that is also frequently assumed to be a universal-solution to peoples’ struggles is the narrative of religion. In Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie drama There Will Be Blood, those two narratives are depicted as opposing forces and are
history of the construction of difference, which was entrenched in both texts and imagery, through depictions of invented monsters. I will argue how the “monsters” were significant to introduce negative stereotypes, which unpins the characterisation of difference, in relation to race. Furthermore, through conducting interviews with my peers, I will attempt to redesign the golliwogs from Noddy’s books. I am predominately interested in the aspect of the
Both versions of ‘‘The Crimson Candle’’ fit the rhetorical definition of narrative, since both involve a teller and an audience, a progression by instability (each husband seeks the promise, each wife gives it, and each fulfills it in her different way) and a series of developing responses by the audience. But Bierce’s version has a higher degree of narrativity. What is striking to me, however, is that this difference is not simply because Bierce’s version introduces a more substantial instability
documents the teleological macro narratives of battles and invasions foregrounding the side which conquers and wins. There is no space for the minorities or in other words marginalised groups are created precisely through this one sided narration of chronological tales that makes history his-story and lends it a linearity that is rather rigid and misleading. Instead Aag ka Dariya calls for a historical narrative pieced together from the fragment. The novel's use of narrative
Sutpen’s design and ultimately his failure should be read in a larger context outside the personal history of the character. The fate of Sutpen is sealed once his realization takes hold of him. The traumatic affront prompts Sutpen to be a part of the same social structure that rebuked him for his poverty. Faulkner allows Sutpen to rise in social position by attempting to make him a part of Southern society that is plainly biased and preoccupied with a person’s social footing. Sutpen thereby is already
Jon and his friend who was also part of the social experiment went looking for a place to live and they both looked at the same apartment complexes. One of the differences that I noticed between their experiences was when John was given a Master key by the manager to view an apartment that was vacant. I thought the amount of trust that the manager showed only after meeting John not too long ago was surprising. The
La chica del sur (2012) is a paradigmatic case of a documentary that ameliorates territorial and cultural difference through mobility. A distant event deeply impacts the director and serves as the film’s pretext: in 1989, José Luis García took part in the thirteenth annual World Youth Festival in Pyongyang, North Korea, a political event that the Soviet Union sponsored just three weeks before the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and four weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall. While García
methodologies in the field. In narratology, theories that commenced developing centuries ago through written texts, progressed in the last decades to visual media, and are recently being applied to transmedia storytelling. Numerous narratological terminologies can be discerned from the fictional worlds, enabling narratologists to apply and develop theories within this dynamic new media. For this paper’s purpose, I will use League of Legends; a multiplayer online battle arena video game, to compare between literary