Comparing The Amish World And The Modern World

In the assignment that I am going to explore “A world of Difference” and show connections between the four texts I have selected they are: Witness by Peter Weir (Film), Meg Merrilies by John Keats (Poem), The Bath by Janet Frame (S/S) and What I ever wanted by Vikki Wakefield (Novel). This texts/film has similarities or connections through characters that are involved in them are: Rachael (Film), Meg (Poem)? Unnamed (s/s) and Jemima (Novel). Through them involved the way he/she live, background (Culture) and appearance.
“Different cultures and people have their own way of living.”
In the film “Witness” directed by Peter Weir is an interesting genre that shares two different worlds. “The Amish world and the Modern world.” It shares the way
Her husband passed away and she is known as a Widow. She has a prosperous home, a family but without electricity and showers. Her appearance is according to her background, culture protocol of what she wears from the Modern days 1982. In her culture, the frames of her life they have never seen violence, no guns and weapon are allowed, as well no music, no dancing. They cannot drink alcohol just lemonade juice. They are not allowed to touch a man except your husband but most of all fighting is not accepted. For transportation carts and horses are what they use, and that is the main differences between the Amish world and the Modern world. Modern world uses cars, Trains, Buses, Motorcycles for transport, and violence (fighting, killers etc.) is everywhere and live a city busy life. Rachael’s daily routines have been planned and she does her part as an Amish woman. I truly think that Peter Weir (The Director) did a really good job that he links the saying and expressions together within the characters actions that Rachael could be able to pass on the message through film by using two different languages English and Germany. This shows the relationship between Rachael, her family and her culture with values Love, Family and Safety.
In the poem “Meg Merrilies” by John Keats talks about an elderly lady who is a gypsy. This shares different world people live in and how they control their lives. It also
She has no family but nature. She lives out of doors on the moors of Scotland in a wide world and in a wide nature. Her brothers were the “craggy hills, and her sisters larchen trees” (Found in Poem). Her bath was the river, and she had no food, “an old red cloak” she wore that the weather was cold. “A chip hat she had on” and she would at least she would stare at the moon when there is nothing to do. She made her garlanding (flowers etc.), plaited mats and gave them to cottagers she met she met along the bush. She wove and she would sing (Stanza 5). She does not talk to anyone but her book is a church-yard tomb. Her environment is unclean because she sleeps under trees in a brown heath turf bed that is not comfortable and a place where people hardly seen very emotional and inspiring that helped me to understand the main fact of the poem and I felt mournful about the life that others out there is living. Her world is her life of challenge, she has No rule, No expectations but lived as she did