Essays on Literary Genre

‘The Birds’, a thriller drama by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock is a classic in the history of world cinema. A wealthy San Francisco socialite, Melanie Daniels chases a potential boyfriend Mitchell Brenner, to Bodega Bay that slowly takes a turn for a bizarre series of events when, over a course of few days,...

Throughout the ages young people have expressed their youth through music, for us Australians, rap music does this for us. Rap music, also known as hip-hop, is a music genre originating from Bronx in New York, USA where one of the first rappers ever, DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started rapping at parties he...

Australian Gothic is a vehicle for social change and explores the spectre of our history. Children of the Black Skirt, written by Angela Betzien and directed by Leticia Caceres is a compelling story, exploring incredibly dark aspects of Australia’s past. Betzien’s aim in using Gothic techniques is, by stimulating a need for comprehension. Real TV...

When talking about the idea of ‘voice’ in relation to poetry, there are two different yet intertwining interpretation of the concept that must be discussed; voice as an audible experience, and voice as a figurative experience. The voice of a poem that comes from an audible individual may also be representative for a larger community,...

Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, depicting the rise and fall of the publishing mogul, Charles Foster Kane. The film was produced with ground-breaking forms, applying the use of modern light innovations and focal methods of cinematography and the dramatizing editing style. The story centrally revolved around the mystery surrounding the...

Dystopian theme is a controlled system, which is an illusion of a perfect society. This is shown through the film The Maze Runner by Wes Ball and text The lord flies by William Golding. The Maze Runner is about a boy who woke up in a metal cage in futuristic time zone with no memory...

In Gattaca and The Handmaid’s Tale, both texts explore the idea of dystopian worlds and how they can cause negative impacts to society and lead to oppression. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the community is highly influenced by a social hierarchy, which is used to oppress many people into thinking their world of old fashioned discrimination...

Gwen Harwood explores many ideas in her poetry that were influenced by her upbringing and societal views. Harwood is an Australian poet born in 1920, who published over 420 works including poems and librettos. She grew up in a family of strong women, her mother who was a feminist and was involved in being an...

In this essay, I will be rhetorically analysing the DreamWorks animation Shrek (2001) to show how it challenges the classical telling of a fairy-tale. The film represented a major turning point in the representation of fairy-tales; in fact, it opposes to the classical story of the damsel in distress saved by a prince, that of...

Stories delivered in various forms present a noteworthy responsibility in uniting individuals across cultures, communities, nations and historical eras. Furthermore, storytelling, particularly in the form of a narrative, often addresses central underlying notions pertaining to the human experience. The universal themes relating to the human experience explored in both William Shakespeare’s play Othello and Tracy...