Shakespeare Allusion
In “How to Read Literature like a Professor” he uses many literary terms like symbolism and allusion but the one literary device I’ll be focusing on in this essay will be how he used allusion throughout it.
One of the allusions used is in chapter five “When in doubt… it’s from Shakespeare”. The author alludes to past Shakespeare plays and how they’re depicted later on in the 1970s and around the 1980s. Some of his plays have transformed into completely different ideas from what they originally were and with some of them you couldn’t even tell they were one of his plays but you could tell that Shakespeare was in there. For one it mentions one of his works that Woody Allen reworked was “A Midsummers Nights Dream” had been turned into “A Midsummers …show more content…
It talks about how the bible also plays parts in plays, movies, other literature, etc. It mentions films such as “East of Eden” and “Pulp Fiction” who don’t really have a holy message but have biblical symbols and quotations within them. It says that in the “East of Eden” is called that because the author of the book of which the film is based off of knew the Book of Genesis. It says that to be in the east of Eden then you must be of the fallen world. Also, referring to the pulp fiction, that despite all the swearwords or one particular swearword used over and over, that it is a Vesuvius of biblical language, and that once again despite the swearwords that the “linguistic behavior” suggests some of the writer/director who was in contact with “The Good Book”. The third allusion I found (and last one that I will list) is that within the short story of “Araby”. It talks of a young boy who sets out to try and buy a gift for a girl he has a crush on but he fails. It shows that his humiliating loss of innocence and failure relates to that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Not all of these directly quote or mention anything about the bible but all of them do allude to it in someone whether it be a line that has to do with the bible or whether the overall movie relates to the bible in some way or
One of the allusions used is in chapter five “When in doubt… it’s from Shakespeare”. The author alludes to past Shakespeare plays and how they’re depicted later on in the 1970s and around the 1980s. Some of his plays have transformed into completely different ideas from what they originally were and with some of them you couldn’t even tell they were one of his plays but you could tell that Shakespeare was in there. For one it mentions one of his works that Woody Allen reworked was “A Midsummers Nights Dream” had been turned into “A Midsummers …show more content…
It talks about how the bible also plays parts in plays, movies, other literature, etc. It mentions films such as “East of Eden” and “Pulp Fiction” who don’t really have a holy message but have biblical symbols and quotations within them. It says that in the “East of Eden” is called that because the author of the book of which the film is based off of knew the Book of Genesis. It says that to be in the east of Eden then you must be of the fallen world. Also, referring to the pulp fiction, that despite all the swearwords or one particular swearword used over and over, that it is a Vesuvius of biblical language, and that once again despite the swearwords that the “linguistic behavior” suggests some of the writer/director who was in contact with “The Good Book”. The third allusion I found (and last one that I will list) is that within the short story of “Araby”. It talks of a young boy who sets out to try and buy a gift for a girl he has a crush on but he fails. It shows that his humiliating loss of innocence and failure relates to that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Not all of these directly quote or mention anything about the bible but all of them do allude to it in someone whether it be a line that has to do with the bible or whether the overall movie relates to the bible in some way or