It is always beneficial for individuals to achieve a sense of belonging. Discuss this statement by referring to your prescribed text and a self-selected text.
It is always beneficial for individuals to achieve a sense of belonging. Discuss this statement by referring to your prescribed text and a self-selected text.
For individuals to achieve a sense of belonging is beneficial as it’s a place, feeling, even a person that makes you feel a sense of security and that you are not alone in this world. When someone doesn’t belong they could feel a sense of isolation and it’s distressing, the extremes of not belonging are portrayed in my self-selected text “Refugee Blues” a poem by W.H Auden and in my prescribed text “Strictly Ballroom” a film directed by Baz Luhrmann shows us that belonging is a valuable concept.
The main protagonists in “Strictly Ballroom” are Scott Hastings and Fran, they initially do not belong to the orthodoxy of the dance federation as indicated through the costuming contrast between them and other Federation dancers, the other ballroom dancers all dressed in very lurid costumes, have peroxide hair and fake grins in comparison Scott has a black plain suit with a very natural unhappy smile. “I’m putting on my happy face” says Shirley Hastings and this alerts us that it is an artificial community of dancers. Scott wanted to dance and live authentically. This indicates that Scott is an outsider, not fitting into the norms of the federation. Just as Scott Hastings has been ostracised by the federation, there is a similar idea portrayed in the poem “Refugee Blues”.
In “Refugee Blues” we see the extremes of not belonging where a whole religious group (Jewish people) are being ostracised and denied there right to belong by the German Nazi’s. In the poem the repetition of “Yet there’s no place for us” emphasis’s the underlying statement that the Germans are not acceptant of the Jewish people and they are seen as outsiders and unacceptable. Due to their cultural identity the Germans believed that the Jewish people were different. The difference in cultural identity is also depicted in “Strictly Ballroom” but
For individuals to achieve a sense of belonging is beneficial as it’s a place, feeling, even a person that makes you feel a sense of security and that you are not alone in this world. When someone doesn’t belong they could feel a sense of isolation and it’s distressing, the extremes of not belonging are portrayed in my self-selected text “Refugee Blues” a poem by W.H Auden and in my prescribed text “Strictly Ballroom” a film directed by Baz Luhrmann shows us that belonging is a valuable concept.
The main protagonists in “Strictly Ballroom” are Scott Hastings and Fran, they initially do not belong to the orthodoxy of the dance federation as indicated through the costuming contrast between them and other Federation dancers, the other ballroom dancers all dressed in very lurid costumes, have peroxide hair and fake grins in comparison Scott has a black plain suit with a very natural unhappy smile. “I’m putting on my happy face” says Shirley Hastings and this alerts us that it is an artificial community of dancers. Scott wanted to dance and live authentically. This indicates that Scott is an outsider, not fitting into the norms of the federation. Just as Scott Hastings has been ostracised by the federation, there is a similar idea portrayed in the poem “Refugee Blues”.
In “Refugee Blues” we see the extremes of not belonging where a whole religious group (Jewish people) are being ostracised and denied there right to belong by the German Nazi’s. In the poem the repetition of “Yet there’s no place for us” emphasis’s the underlying statement that the Germans are not acceptant of the Jewish people and they are seen as outsiders and unacceptable. Due to their cultural identity the Germans believed that the Jewish people were different. The difference in cultural identity is also depicted in “Strictly Ballroom” but