The Imitation Game Analysis

For my critical feminist lens, I will be answering the question ‘How are men and women (masculinity and femininity) portrayed differently in the text?’. I intend to explore the portrayal of both men and women in the film ‘The Imitation Game’ directed by Morten Tyldum. Furthermore, I believe that the film portrays the patriarchal structure that is the basis of the portrayal of men and women.

The Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a Visual text about a 13-year-old boy named Ricky. Ricky changes and develops in the bush and at his new home throughout the whole story. He had never had a real family; he'd been thrust aside, from home to home, getting pushed to the side and abandoned. He never knew what it was like to have a real family who loved him. Since he never felt loved it caused him to retaliate and do many bad things.

Watching the play to kill a Mockingbird was a wonderful production that captures the audience attention. A playwright is a person who writes plays for that stage and also they create scripts that tell stories through the words and action of characters. Most of the playwright’s people work alone and some of the time they share the work of creating script with the actors and directors.

John Sullivan and Chuck Klosterman are both very skilled and talented journalists, as I have already observed by the few essays that I have read by them. In Sullivan’s “The Final Comeback of Axl Rose,” he is describing his experience at one of Rose's comeback performances in New York with different band members mocking the originals, as well as digging up Axl’s past in Lafayette, Indiana. Klosterman’s piece, “The Pretenders,” isn’t so much about Axl Rose himself, but is focusing on the motivation behind tribute bands, specifically Paradise City, a Guns N’ Roses tribute. Throughout both of these essays, the authors have drastic tone shifts that greatly add to the messages within the pieces.

“It's right hard to say," she said. "Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks' talk at home it'd be out of place, wouldn't it? Now what if I talked white-folks' talk at church, and with my neighbors? They'd think I was puttin' on airs to beat Moses, "But Cal, you know better," I said. “It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike—in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change

Hayakawa’s career was jumpstarted by his leading role in The Cheat, the film catapulted him

Recently, I watched the movie The Imitation Game and the main character was Alan Turing, who actually lived back in the early to mid 1900’s. Alan Turing was an intelligent mathematician who belonged to a group of individuals that were given the task of decrypting the Nazi enigma machine. He built his own machine in order to decode the enigma. Turing was not a very social guy, often making others feel uncomfortable in conversation with his odd responses. Many times, he thought of himself as much more intelligent than his peers. He even sometimes claimed that he was right when people doubted him. H e identified as a homosexual, which was illegal during the time period in which he lived. Although he was homosexual, Turing asked a woman to marry him in order to keep her on the team to decode the enigma. Later on, towards the end of the movie, Turing was feeling lonely due to his sexuality. Once word got out that he was attracted to men, he was given the choice of either going to jail for two years or going through hormonal

Out of all the characters we discussed in class, I beleive Milton from Office Space and The Big Chief from the One That Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are the most similar. Both characters begin in the “fog” of the combine, Big Chief acts deaf and dumb and Milton can never say a full sentence to stand up for himself. As both stories develop we see a rebel individual, one who doesn’t care about the system, in Cuckoo's Nest it's McMurphy and in Office Space it's Peter. Both Milton and Big Chief follow the lead of the rebel and finish the job of breaking the combine.

Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has a back story as outrageous as his book. The former Merry Prankster loved to spread is unconventional views on liberalism, write books and short stories, and was keen on LSD. “In the 60’s, Kesey volunteered as a paid experimental subject in a study conducted by the U.S. Army in which he was given mind-altering drugs and asked to report on their effects.” (Biography.com). Also, he worked as an attendant in a hospital's psychiatric ward which gave him most of his ideas for his most controversial book. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest uncovers the abuse of the system and the effects on individuals. The main character, Randle McMurphy, is boisterous as he is inappropriate. His main

Many great poets and writers have been around for centuries. Their books have carried on their legacy and the secrets of the past. But not all great writers have lived in the past, many now exist in our time such as J.K Rowling, Yann martel and Suzanne Collins. Many of their books have been turned into movies such the hunger games and The harry potter series. But the biggest problem directors seem to face is cutting and changing parts of the movie to make it shorter and more action packed. A good director will succeed at making the right decisions while still keeping the plot relatively the same. But many directors fail to recreate the image that the book creates which leads to disappointment. The maze runner is à novel by james dashner that

Julia Le Mr. Frechette English 9 Seminar September 5, 2014 The Maze Runner by James Dashner Human nature: “the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things” (“Human Nature"). Any action you perform yourself or with another person may be viewed as human nature in some form. As humans, we have a sense of curiosity, survival, and violence. The Maze Runner, a book I read over this summer, may not seem like it contains examples of human nature, but in fact does.

Watching Forrest Gump for the first time I feel that the movie has a little of everything in it, from action and war to love and romance. For one man to overcome so many hardships and live a life full of love and happiness it is inspiring. Each character had something that reached viewers. From Jenny to Lieutenant Dan they all had something that made them easy to connect with. Even the people that sat on the bench next to Forrest created interest; they listened and were in the story for us, but were not truly part of it.

The Twisted Life of a Teenager James Dashner, the author of the novel, “The Maze Runner” uses particular symbols within the story to represent a modern day teenager. He does so by expressing relations between teenagers and key signifiers in the novel. By using these connections, Dashner enables the reader to apply a literary approach referred to as structuralism. Structuralism is meaning that is not found in the text, but in the act of reading itself. The story consists of a group of teenagers, known as the gladers.

Some men truly believe that they are the superior gender, but this is definitely not the case. In his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey proves this to be true. Since the book is centered around a group of men in a psychiatric ward, it is assumed that women are not present in the storyline. This is not the case. In fact, in this novel, not only are women present, they play a big role in the development of the story, however their role is affects the story in a negative way.

The instant the film began I was captured unto a moment of imagination as the melodic piano symphony released me into a sensation of suspense. The Imitation Game is a 2014 Academy Award winning Biographical film and a fact-based story on English Mathematician, Logician and Cryptanalyst Alan Turing. During World War II he developed a complex system which had the capabilities of breaking an unbreakable Nazi Code, helping the Allies win the war. Although,