When we consider the intertextual connections between texts through an exploration of the characters we come to realize the significance of a composers ‘purpose and text’
An individual’s perception of their value is based on the circumstances they are situated within. Different contexts lead to different values being explored. Supporting this statement Both Orwell and Lang’s works both successfully present the imminent dangers of the contemporary and social and political world to which they are surrounded in. Metropolis and 1984 both ominously represent the mechanisms of power in institutions that practice socio-political supremacy and tyranny. Metropolis and 1984 are vital examples of texts influenced by the context in which they were created. Both Metropolis and 1984, depict the ramifications of war and conflict from political, social and personal perspectives providing insight into the diminished value of the individual as shaped by contextual circumstances and intertextual connections.
In Fritz Lang’s silent film Metropolis and Orwell’s novel 1984, the audience is exposed to societies that have lost the human values of individuality, identity …show more content…
Both composers situate their personal and atheistic contexts within the competing hierarchies of class based notions of status privilege and social dysfunction. Each text evokes awareness that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts. In conjunction, they both correspondingly criticize totalitarian regimes by creating dark dystopias making them speculative, they are both political texts and explore the key questions of government, power and class, which have arisen out of each composers social, cultural, historical
An individual’s perception of their value is based on the circumstances they are situated within. Different contexts lead to different values being explored. Supporting this statement Both Orwell and Lang’s works both successfully present the imminent dangers of the contemporary and social and political world to which they are surrounded in. Metropolis and 1984 both ominously represent the mechanisms of power in institutions that practice socio-political supremacy and tyranny. Metropolis and 1984 are vital examples of texts influenced by the context in which they were created. Both Metropolis and 1984, depict the ramifications of war and conflict from political, social and personal perspectives providing insight into the diminished value of the individual as shaped by contextual circumstances and intertextual connections.
In Fritz Lang’s silent film Metropolis and Orwell’s novel 1984, the audience is exposed to societies that have lost the human values of individuality, identity …show more content…
Both composers situate their personal and atheistic contexts within the competing hierarchies of class based notions of status privilege and social dysfunction. Each text evokes awareness that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts. In conjunction, they both correspondingly criticize totalitarian regimes by creating dark dystopias making them speculative, they are both political texts and explore the key questions of government, power and class, which have arisen out of each composers social, cultural, historical