I have chosen Romance as my genre for my connections report. I will be linking the three texts, Pride and prejudice written by Jane Austen, P.s I love you by Cecelia Ahern, The notebook by Nicholas sparks and my one chosen visual text, Titanic directed by James Cameron. Romance books usually follow similar routines to fit within the romance genre. The plot, character, and happy endings will be the three connections I will discuss. I will link them to form my final analysis of the connections between romance genre texts.
My first connection, that love conquers all, is shown, though my visual text in the film Titanic. We watch as Jack and Rose are forced to hide their love and true feelings from each other when they are faced with obstacles
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My first text, The Notebook, has a happy ending for the couple in love in the book and for the readers as well. Allie and Noah overcome many different obstacles thrown at them, however, they find their peace with each other and stay together in love at the end of the book. Allie is forced to choose between another man and Noah, she follows her heart and chooses her true love, Noah. Nicholas Sparks has written this novel in a way which allows for the readers to fall in love with Noah’s character when he is forced to leave Allie. We feel sad and sympathise with him. When the end of the book comes and we read over Allies moment to decide, we almost feel the pressure Allie does in the hope that she chooses Noah. The happy ending in this novel then becomes a happy ending for the character and the reader. My second text, Pride and Prejudice also subverts to the romance genre as Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet fall in love with each other and get married by the end of the novel. Titanic also links closely to my connection as Jack and Rose are together in love, however, Jack dies in the Titanic incident leaving Rose on her own to live her life without him. As we listen to Rose tell her story of Jack's death, we see the very end of the film in Rose’s mind, where she is back on the Titanic and sees Jack. She is reunited with him once and for all in her dreams. All of these romance texts and films end with the …show more content…
The river was still as I walked across the bank and neared the house. I edged closer to the front door with each step I took. I had known that I was forbidden to see Hamlet, but that hadn’t stopped me from visiting him in the late hours of the night. I did worry about him sometimes, I wondered if he was lonely or sad, I wondered if he wanted to see me, but he knew he couldn’t because if my father saw him. Oh, the consequences would be grave. I opened the front door with both of my hands to ensure I made as little noise as I could. The housed looked the same as it always had. Small and cluttered though there was only a little bit of dust here and there. Hamlet had lived there all his life, he was born in the bedroom left of the kitchen and had learnt to crawl, walk and run in the hallways of that house. I stepped past the door, closing it behind me, and walked towards the other end of the living room. I remembered playing ‘tag’ around his mother's sofa, we would stand on both sides of it and watch each other trying to anticipate one another's movements. His eyes were a deep blue that almost looked like the water furthest depths of the ocean and when he smiled, his teeth shone like the richest pearls hidden inside a sea clam. I walked down the familiar hallways with light footsteps when something pressed against my shoulder. It did frighten me a little and had made me imagine if my father had caught
Hamlet has lived through plenty of ups and downs throughout his childhood. He has been lost and confused within himself, but knew he wanted one thing, which was revenge on his fathers killer, Claudius. His passion of hate developed for Claudius as he married Hamlets mother shortly after the king’s death. Hamlet could not decide on the perfect decision for himself, his mother and father as well as the best way to follow through with the best consequence for Claudius that would impress his father. His everyday life, along with his love life, left him with an empty heart, which slowed the process of the revenge down. Hamlet never expected to be captured and kidnapped by pirates, as he was sent overseas as a young man. His inside thoughts were attacking and overwhelming Him, leaving him depressed and anxious. Hamlet’s life has been leading him to negative thoughts that he cannot process or act accordingly to, due to the excessive amount of issues and options involved in his life at a young age, him being overwhelmed lead him to delaying the process of avenging his fathers killer.
One of the best known pieces of literature throughout the world, Hamlet is also granted a position of excellence as a work of art. One of the elements which makes this play one of such prestige is the manner in which the story unfolds. Throughout time, Shakespeare has been renowned for writing excellent superlative opening scenes for his plays. By reviewing Act 1, Scene 1 of Hamlet, the reader is able to establish a clear understanding of events to come. This scene effectively sets a strong mood for the events to come, gives important background information, and introduces the main characters. With the use of this information, it is simple to see how Shakespeare manages to create stories with such everlasting appeal.
The recent death of Hamlet’s father had brought severe grievance to the castle of Elsinore. Hamlet has been going through a rough time with his father's recent passing, and his mother's recent marriage shortly after her previous husbands death.
I feel nauseous as my stomach churned at the very sight of my dear friend Hamlet. My head is consumed with regrets. Oh how I should have taken his place! Why dear Lord did Hamlet have to die, why could it have not been me! Every time I look at his sombre face my heart feels as if with each beat it becomes suffocated and struggles to keep a steady beat as if it had lost the will to keep beating. Oh this sadness hangs over me like a black cloud, raining my personal sorrow down on me wherever I went.
Hamlet is saying that he is living but he has lost all meaning in fun. He says that his world feels “sterile” and empty. Although he sees the beautiful sky and sunlight, the air is still deadly and like a disease to him. This prose is significant because he reveals how he feels in this world and it suggests that he is depressed. Prose interrupts the rhythmical structure in order to convey something about a character. Here, we learn about Hamlet’s true feelings.
After meeting the ghost of his late father, the former king, Hamlet resolves to avenge his murder, committed by his uncle, the current king. In order to investigate and find evidence of his uncle’s treachery,
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of art so prolific that many consider it as one of the best tragedies ever written in the history of literature, in which ideas and motifs of sickness and decay embed the entire plot of the story. Each unique character then conveys these ideas by the way they converse with other characters, their actions, and their use of figurative language. These create a unominous tone that is carried throughout the story, which helps the audience in fully grasping Hamlet’s truest emotions. These also help the reader know each character as well as to understand the how the figurative elements of the play translate to real life circumstances. From the start of the play, Shakespeare establishes a tone of uncertainty and
When a reader engages and indulges into a piece of writing that involves a love story, they wish and hope for it to be a “happily ever after.” Unfortunately, it is not always the case. Such as, in Romeo and Juliet ending with the death of the two lovers, or the Titanic ending in the death of the beloved Jack. In the Novel, 1984, by George Orwell, there is a similar tragic ending to a love story.
Shakespeare begins Hamlet's struggle with recognition of Hamlet's sincere grief and anger following his father's untimely death. A taste of the conflict is expressed in the dialogue
When he was a boy, Hamlet was very happy with his cushy life as a prince to his father’s kingship. His dreams were crushed when the death of his father occurred. The pieces of his shattered dreams were again smashed when his mother married the man he suspected to be the murderer. Hamlet was furious when his mother made the decision to marry Claudius,
Prince Hamlet, a university student, is an extremely philosophical and thoughtful character. When his father the King of Denmark dies, Hamlet returns home only to be presented with evidence that suggests his uncle Claudius may have been responsible for his father’s murder. In the initial acts of the tragedy, Hamlet seeks to prove his uncle’s guilt and contemplates all of his actions and
It is this mourning that becomes the foundation of conflicts to come. After an encounter with his father’s ghost, Hamlet learns of his uncle’s treachery and is at first filled with rage, “Haste me to know’t, that I with wings as swift, as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge.” (Hamlet aside, Act I, Scene V, p.1651), but it is Hamlet’s struggle with himself that leads to not act upon his words as fast as he had clamed to.
Hamlet struggles with many issues in his daily life. His dad has been murdered by his uncle. His mother then married his uncle soon after the father’s death, which Hamlet considers to be morally wrong in more ways than one. During the story, his close friends betray him by spying on him for his uncle. Seeing how Hamlet reacts to the daily struggles in his life can still be applied to the world today. Many people feel as though they are trapped in their own poor life, and that they have no way to break free of it. The play touches on how Hamlet has these same feelings.
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the world’s most renowned plays, one which has stood the test of time over the course of 400 years, finding relevance even today. A complex and sophisticated work, Hamlet is a masterful weaving of the myriad of components that make up the human experience; it delicately touches upon such topics as death, romance, vengeance, and mania, among several others. Being so intricate and involuted, Hamlet has been interpreted in countless fashions since its conception, with each reader construing it through their own subjectivity. Some of the most popular and accredited methods of analyzing the work are the Traditional Revenge Tragedy, Existentialist, Psychoanalytic, Romantic, and Act of Mourning approaches.
First we can analyze hamlet being devastated by his fathers death. It is only fair to understand the pain he must have felt, and on top of that he is supposed to be the heir to the throne of Denmark. Instead, his uncle takes it from him by marrying his mother, Gertrude, so quick. By looking through the psychoanalytic lens, we first look at his id or unconscious, which are our most desired dreams or hopes that are deep within our mind, also known as the “pleasure principle: is the