Comparison Of Mad Men And The Wire

Some people believe that the more money a person has, the less satisfied the person is in life. Women’s emotions are not affected the same, but some women’s emotions are affected differently by dealing with different men with different income compared to other men. The show, Mad Men, takes place in the 1960’s New York, portraying the life of the protagonist, Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the Creative Director of Sterling Cooper Agency, an advertising agency owned by Roger Sterling (John Slattery). Don Draper is praised for his work, but many of the employees in the company, like Draper, are filled with arrogance and disrespect that not only the men face, but the women tolerate. The episode “Shoot” mainly focuses on how Don does not want his wife, Betty Draper (January Jones), to model again, on how the agency is trying to figure out how to stop John F. Kennedy’s campaign on the air, and how Don is trying to figure out to leave Sterling Cooper Agency and work for McCann-Erikson Firm, a different advertising agency. Throughout the episode, many can notice the men degrading and utilizing the women in the episode by making rude, sexual remarks towards the women or competing to be better than the women. Betty symbolizes a married woman who becomes more dependent as her husband becomes more successful. Betty’s expectation to be a dutiful, nurturing mother is displayed in her mother-daughter relationship. This episode’s depiction of working, single women indicates that single women are

The Hitchhiker is an interesting radio station play and so was the remake of the play in an episode of The Twilight Zone. Their plot takes place in the U.S., the main character/narrator is heading to California. While heading to California from New York, they keep seeing a hitchhiker while they’re driving across the country.

This essay will compare & contrast the protagonist/antagonist's relationship with each other and the other jurors in the play and in the movie versions of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men. There aren't any changes made to the key part of the story but yet the minor changes made in making the movie adaptation produce a different picture than what one imagines when reading the drama in the form of a play.

“What's Eating Gilbert Grape” Dir. Lasse Hallstrom and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck are two very similar pieces of storytelling about caring for the misfortunate. In Of Mice and Men George cares for his mentally challenged friend Lennie, and in, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Gilbert takes care of his mentally disabled brother Arnie. Both George and Gilbert care more for the well being and defence of their loved one, than they do for their own well being in most cases. In the end of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Gilbert’s mother dies; in a dramatic and tangible gesture to rid himself of his past, Gilbert burns their house down. In a symbolic similarity, at the end of Of Mice and Men George kills Lennie - in an effort to release him of

Recently while watching two old film classics, Vertigo and Notorious, I found myself thinking of other movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Most of his movies have many things in common, while remaining completely independent of each other. These two films have different plots, actors, and most obvious one is filmed in color the other black and white. Which leads me to believe that Alfred Hitchcock really knew what he was about; as a result his films all a have a distinctive theme about them. Both films keep you in a state of anticipation as the stories unfold and reveal the twist and turns that Alfred Hitchcock was famous for. Notorious was written in 1946 a year after World War II came to an end and the

The show gossip girl has been called the best teen drama ever made. However, there are many people who say that they don't understand why gossip girl went on for as long as it did. That being said it is based on the novels gossip girl. Which is based on an Elite privet school on the upper east side of Manhattan whose students are less than citizens of the year. The show gossip girl is about a mysterious blogger who exposes the main characters any time they have a secret. In the show the blogger is called gossip girl and she runs everything if gossip girl doesn’t write about you then are you even alive. However, gossip girl has a few favorite victims, those being the main characters such as Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Chuck Bass, Nathaniel Archibald, and Dan and Jenny Humphrey. All of the main characters are children of the elite and live on the upper east side except for Dan

It’s easy to compare Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, partly because they do have similar premises (teen girls in love with vampires attending high school.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag is a fireman. A fireman, according to the novel, burns books rather than putting out fires. Montag meets Clarisse, a girl who changes his perspective on life, and teaches him to think. In the society of Fahrenheit 451, the government bans people from reading books because books bring knowledge. The government does not want its citizens to acquire knowledge. In the movie, The Truman Show Truman Burbank is in a television show from the day he was born. He is unaware about his society controlling him until he meets a girl named Sylvia. After that moment, he questions his whole life and eventually escapes the world he lives in. In the book, Fahrenheit 451 and in the movie, The Truman Show, both Montag and Truman show

Justice is doing for others, what we would want done for ourselves. Both the play ‘Twelve Angry Men’ by playwright Reginald Rose and the film ‘On the Waterfront’ by director Elia Kazan explore justice. Rose and Kazan use a variety of characters and their challenges, as well as a range of different literary features to build their knowledge of justice shown throughout both texts. Firstly, both authors Rose and Kazan explore the use of their protagonists using justice to overcome the fears to stand up for themselves. Secondly we are shown justice from both antagonists in each text as neither of them are set up to not accept the truth to try and achieve justice. Lastly, Rose and Kazan show through the use of the setting how justice is used in more depth. Each text ultimately explores a variety of different ways of showing justice

Fences written by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller are two plays that could be considered very different in terms of their plot. The plots of both plays contain two very different cultural backgrounds which affects each protagonist differently. If the reader or audience looks past the plot into the theme and symbolisms used they can see that the plays are more similar than they are different. In spite of the different cultural backgrounds of each protagonist they both are tragic heroes that are trying to achieve the American dream as it relates to each character; both of which fail in drastic yet similar ways. The American dream has always been an important factor in many American’s lives as it is to Troy

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fences by August Wilson have similar themes of conflicts between fathers and sons, conflicts between husbands and wives, and the need to focus on a small unit of space in order to achieve success. In the process of developing these themes throughout the two plays, three similar symbolic elements are used including the insecure father figure, the "other woman," and the garden.

Those in climacteric situations often make decisions not with kind and compassionate motives but more often with self-serving and egotistical intentions. Both “Twelve Angry Men” written by Reginald Rose and “On The Waterfront” directed by Elia Kazan portray characters faced with morally crippling choices to make and they feature persons who are similarly driven such as Johnny Friendly and Juror 3. The novel and film also display homogenous themes throughout, such as justice and correct moral choice. In contrast however, characters throughout “On The Waterfront” are commonly basing decisions more upon fear and the need for protection, whilst for the duration of “Twelve Angry Men” choices are made with prejudice and their own dispositions in

The people who hold the power in both the movie JFK, and from the novel Lord of the Flies both share similar characteristics. For example, the government in the JFK movie, would lie to the “masses,” or in this situation, the people, on the fact that they killed President Kennedy because he wanted peace. This is very similar to how Ralph, the kid elected leader in the Lord of the Flies, when he doesn't say the reason why he is always struct with the fact that the fire must never go out. Another way that both powers are similar is the fact that they both were very strict on how they wanted things to get done. First off, the government in the movie JFK was very specific in how they wanted for example, the examination of the President’s body when they were trying to look for the bullets and while they were examining the bullets wounds and the gash in the President’s head.

As a member of today’s society, it is easy to become largely aware of the need individuals crave to know everything about everything. Whether it be the topic of entertainment, environmental issues or politics we seem to have a lingering curiosity as a people to be aware of the ins and outs of the world we live in. Just as often as we see this constant curiosity we also see the lack of true initiative. Many areas of our society today call for both our interst and knowledge so that we may fulfill the position of being and active member of the society that we live in.

We have learned how “The Wire” is a good representation of real social issues, and the school system is one of them. It is clear that schools need to change, because as it is clearly portrayed in the show, the system is just not good enough. Something seems to be missing from the classrooms, and not only in “The Wire”. Getting students to go to school, pass exams and have acceptable behavior looks like a challenge for the characters in the show, but in real life, it is not even enough with solving those problems. I believe that learning can be turned into a pleasurable experience, and it could also be fun.