Titanic David R Slavitt Analysis

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The date was April 14th, 1912. The location was a calm and flat Atlantic Ocean. The air was cold and windless. The time was approaching midnight. The ship was the RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built. The lookout was Frederick Fleet and his furtive words to be forever remembered were, "Iceberg, Right ahead!"

INTRO: The Titanic will always be remembered as the most famous and important shipwreck in history. You’ve learned about the building, voyage, and sinking of the Titanic, but now I will tell you why the Titanic leaves a legacy like no other disaster.

James Cameron directed and co-produced Titanic in 1997. It is one of the epic tragical-romantic films of all time. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jack Dawson (hero) and Kate Winslet plays Rose DeWitt Bukater (heroine). Titanic tells the evergreen love story of Rose and Jack. Rose is a first class passenger, but her family is going through financial crises which her mother Ruth is trying to resolve and retain their weakening high-class status through her marriage with Cal Hockley, her fiancé. Agitated over this marriage she attempts suicide by jumping off the stern of the ship. Jack, a poor painter, discourages her from suicide and saves her life. This is a pivotal scene where an epic romance begins. The acting, setting, and lighting play

Titanic portrayed sexuality with attraction between a man and a woman. Rose was a beautiful woman whom her fiancée Hockley was the son of a rich and powerful steel mill owner. However, the sexual interest here was actually in the form of business. Rose was marrying him because of the money Hockley would inherit when his father died, a very prominent practice during that time. Men with power and money were shown to be desirable from all of Rose 's companions on the ship. This common theme of sexuality was broken from Jack 's introduction into Rose 's life. Jack was a polar opposite of Hockley, and he took on a different theme of sexuality of being free, seeing a woman as an equal, and not being rich. Jack ' sexuality was expressed in may forms different from Hockley. When he saved Rose from falling overboard, in his folk-style dancing with Rose, and in his chase of Rose which included kissing and having sex with her. Jack’s simple flirtation with Rose and his later aid in her freedom from the gender binds she was in became the cornerstone of the theme of the movie.

The final line of the poem, “We all go: only a few, first class.”(14), is a metaphor for death in itself. The speaker states that while death is certain and something everyone must endure; only a select few have the privilege of doing so while maintaining a spot in history as well as in the hearts of people worldwide. It is a common dread to be forgotten. For this reason, the passengers of the Titanic shouldn’t be actually be mourned for the way they have, but they should rather be envied.

On April 14,1912 a great ship called the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. That night there were many warnings of icebergs from other ships. There seems to be a conflict on whether or not the warnings reached the bridge. We may never know the answer to this question. The greatest tragedy of all may be that there were not

The movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron, was a fictional story based on the true ship, Titanic. Cameron's movie was based on a love story; however, the focus of this paper will be on some of the differences between the two classes aboard the Titanic. This movie clearly portrayed how differently the first and second-class people were treated during the time of the Titanic. This can be related to many other times in American history when groups were segregated as well.

As the old saying goes, in this world nothing can be said to be sure, except death and taxes. Even everyone knows their life must have an end, but most of them still fear the death. In the short stories, A Drowning by Mark Ferguson and Red Bean Ice by Nancy Lee, authors have demonstrated the reaction and feeling of people to death. In these two stories, the characters are unlike the other person when death comes. They are both calm facing to death, and they are all insisting their hope. However, the reaction of people around them for their death is different.

The White Star Line was owner of the Titanic, which was the largest and most luxurious ship in the world at the time. On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic left from Southampton, England with 2,227 passengers aboard bound for New York City. On April 14th, the ship struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank about 2 ½ hours later. Passengers, mostly women and children, were loaded into lifeboats, however only 705 passengers survived as many lifeboats left partially full.

Prior to watching The Titanic, I had heard a lot about the strenuous journeys those traveling on the voyage underwent. I have never fully watched the movie; therefore, I was unaware of how difficult of an expedition it truly was. The beginning of the movie shows the pleasant and lavish lives that many people experience. While there are different classes of guests on the vessel, most people were able to enjoy themselves and the amentities aboard the majestic ship. As the movie progressed the passengers, however, on the ship found themselves in a fatal situation: the ship had hit an iceberg and began to sink. I was extremely surprised to discover that the ship did not have enough lifeboats to accommodate every passenger, not even half at that. I found the mal preparation for such a grand ship to be a huge shock. I could not believe the owner of the ship would choose having a “less crowded deck” over the safety of its passengers. This atrocity altered my movie-watching exprience, for I knew what was in store. All of the dead bodies floating in the ocean while the staff were looking to fill the lifeboats influenced me greatly because I could not help but think: if the ship had more lifeboats would there be more survivors today? As I saw the deceased families and even children, I couldn't help but think, had the ship had more lifeboats could those people still be living today? Could there have been less fatalities? It is a depressing thought, yet I was appalled by the lack of planning.

Within the context of film industry, the film Titanic by James Cameron belongs to epic romance/ disaster genre. The film, released in 1997, was a global box office hit because the director provided equal importance to history, fiction and romance. To be specific, one can see that the film’s plot is based upon the history of RMS Titanic. On the other side, the main characters including the protagonist and the heroine (Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater/Dawson) are fictional characters. Besides, the element of romance between the main characters (Jack and Rose) is the film’s main attraction. Thesis statement: The critical analysis of the film Titanic proves that the innovative mode of storytelling (flash back and other techniques),

Sudden fear is called panic because of the god Pan, who made noises in the wilderness at night (Hamilton 42).

Social stratification is defined as a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy, is based on four important principles. The four principles are trait, generation to generation which extends to “social mobility”, universal but variable and not just inequality but beliefs.” (Marconis, page 209, para. 1) In this paper I will analyze the movie Titanic and will show and bring out those principles of social stratification and how even though it was set in the 1900’s that those same principles and theories go on even in the present time. Prejudice is a big one in society and goes along with the four principles above and still is prevalent even in today’s society. It’s how we were taught at home

Titanic is one of the outstanding/ phenomenal movie ever created. It is a best romantic film ever produced. Titanic is filled with love, romance, drama, excitement, etc. It is by far the best romantic movie I have ever seen. Although I saw the movie on the 60 inch Samsung in my room while eating popcorn. It was quite and dark. I really feel like it was the best experience that I ever had because there was no one around me. There was no noise of crying baby, there were no people behind you whispering to each other. It was calm and relaxing.