Applying Setting and Narrative to The Road and Porphyria's Lover and The Road
Scene at the start of The Road's trailer shows the father cuddling beside a fire, lit in a church while the child is asleep close by. The fire could symbolise warmth and hope. Could link in with symbolism --> carrying the fire. The fact that they are present inside a church could connote faith and the fact that these two have not yet lost their humanity. On the other hand the emptiness of the Church and the dust/ash that has settled there could represent the deterioration of humanity along with loss of faith, as religion has been left behind in the dust,
The world outside is grey, dark and drab. This symbolises the fact that there is no hope left in the world. The setting of a Road is a visual metaphor for the journey that they take, the journey for the child to carry the fire and to end up at the beach. The water at the beach symbolises life. Trees falling over in the book shows the deterioration and emphasizes the fact that the world is dying.
Porphyria's Lover
Takes place in an isolated cottage, and once the woman enters she brings warmth and light in --> meaning it is normally cold. Pathetic fallacy on display here --> rain foreshadows the fact that something bad is about to happen. The fact that the cottage is isolated means there is no escape for the woman, the man can sleep with her dead body in his arms all night and day. Notes on Setting and Narrative- Red Riding Hood's plot is open to interpretation
- Metaphor - stick to the path - euphemism
- A mother talking to her girl - protect her chastity
- Red Riding Hood - red - period blood
- Story: all the various events that are going to be shown
- Plot: the chain of events and circumstances that connect the various events and place them in some sort of relationship with each other
- Narrative - involves how the various events used to do this showing. Exploring aspects of narrative involve looking at what a writer has chosen to include and not include and how this choice leads the reader to certain conclusions after they finish reading.
- Representation is ideally portrayal. Character and events are not real. Author's control them and they do what the author want them to.
- "The death of the author" - Roland Bart. He claimed the text is yours to interpret as you wish.
- Semantics - meaning.
- Time - physical passing of time
- Sequence - order of events (linear/non-linear)
- Sometimes time is compressed ---> e.g. in The Road the bunker scene is 3 pages long but realistically they could spend a chapter
- Characters
- Define by different means (e.g mother, gender, age, occupation)
- Stereotypes save time
- e.g in Friends we expect Joey to be stupid
- Very important that we steer away from stereotypes
- Voices are either direct or reported
- Voices help develop the characters and drive the plot forward
- Point of view: In a film the camera shows the landscape
- Metalinguistics create imagery in the book
- Poetry - persona
- Destination, author wants you to understand his ideology
- Ideology - beliefs
Scene at the start of The Road's trailer shows the father cuddling beside a fire, lit in a church while the child is asleep close by. The fire could symbolise warmth and hope. Could link in with symbolism --> carrying the fire. The fact that they are present inside a church could connote faith and the fact that these two have not yet lost their humanity. On the other hand the emptiness of the Church and the dust/ash that has settled there could represent the deterioration of humanity along with loss of faith, as religion has been left behind in the dust,
The world outside is grey, dark and drab. This symbolises the fact that there is no hope left in the world. The setting of a Road is a visual metaphor for the journey that they take, the journey for the child to carry the fire and to end up at the beach. The water at the beach symbolises life. Trees falling over in the book shows the deterioration and emphasizes the fact that the world is dying.
Porphyria's Lover
Takes place in an isolated cottage, and once the woman enters she brings warmth and light in --> meaning it is normally cold. Pathetic fallacy on display here --> rain foreshadows the fact that something bad is about to happen. The fact that the cottage is isolated means there is no escape for the woman, the man can sleep with her dead body in his arms all night and day. Notes on Setting and Narrative- Red Riding Hood's plot is open to interpretation
- Metaphor - stick to the path - euphemism
- A mother talking to her girl - protect her chastity
- Red Riding Hood - red - period blood
- Story: all the various events that are going to be shown
- Plot: the chain of events and circumstances that connect the various events and place them in some sort of relationship with each other
- Narrative - involves how the various events used to do this showing. Exploring aspects of narrative involve looking at what a writer has chosen to include and not include and how this choice leads the reader to certain conclusions after they finish reading.
- Representation is ideally portrayal. Character and events are not real. Author's control them and they do what the author want them to.
- "The death of the author" - Roland Bart. He claimed the text is yours to interpret as you wish.
- Semantics - meaning.
- Time - physical passing of time
- Sequence - order of events (linear/non-linear)
- Sometimes time is compressed ---> e.g. in The Road the bunker scene is 3 pages long but realistically they could spend a chapter
- Characters
- Define by different means (e.g mother, gender, age, occupation)
- Stereotypes save time
- e.g in Friends we expect Joey to be stupid
- Very important that we steer away from stereotypes
- Voices are either direct or reported
- Voices help develop the characters and drive the plot forward
- Point of view: In a film the camera shows the landscape
- Metalinguistics create imagery in the book
- Poetry - persona
- Destination, author wants you to understand his ideology
- Ideology - beliefs