Intertextuality is a conception that links to most of literature. Stories can take motivation from a story that came before them. The musical Rent was derived broadly on Puccini's La Bohème, congregating musical themes, plots, and words of the opera. La Bohème and Rent focus on the difficulty of artists in a city, and both displays attention on the poverty and threats of a life lived away from conservative standards. Comparing to La Bohème, Rent examines more toward modern matters, such as homosexual relationships, AIDS, and drug addiction. In fact, Rent was directly derived from the La Bohème in that there are intertextual relations between of them. In order to address its relations, it is significant to clarify how Rent used material which is derived from La Bohème by specifying similarities and differences.
Firstly, what we consider is how elements of La Bohème are preserved and reflected into Rent. Specifically, it is necessary to elaborate the similarities. Considering the main characters both in La Bohème and Rent, it is available to find how Rent was derived from the La Bohème …show more content…
Although both pieces are not exactly same, by applying reflexivity and alteration, it brought differentiation. For instance, according to the film Rent, Angel Schunard who is a musician and Collins’s love interest is hired to kill an irritating dog by drumming continually. However, in the La Bohème, Schunard who is a Collin’s love interest is hired to kill parrot by continuous music performance. As we can see, without a doubt, there is a direct parallel as well in that both Schunard, having same names, are hired to kill animal with musical performance. Indeed, the difference of the scenes is that Rent used an animal as a dog, and La Bohème used an animal as a parrot. In other words, Jonathan Larson, the writer of Rent, made alteration of sources and followed the features of
Firstly, what we consider is how elements of La Bohème are preserved and reflected into Rent. Specifically, it is necessary to elaborate the similarities. Considering the main characters both in La Bohème and Rent, it is available to find how Rent was derived from the La Bohème …show more content…
Although both pieces are not exactly same, by applying reflexivity and alteration, it brought differentiation. For instance, according to the film Rent, Angel Schunard who is a musician and Collins’s love interest is hired to kill an irritating dog by drumming continually. However, in the La Bohème, Schunard who is a Collin’s love interest is hired to kill parrot by continuous music performance. As we can see, without a doubt, there is a direct parallel as well in that both Schunard, having same names, are hired to kill animal with musical performance. Indeed, the difference of the scenes is that Rent used an animal as a dog, and La Bohème used an animal as a parrot. In other words, Jonathan Larson, the writer of Rent, made alteration of sources and followed the features of