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My report examines the connections of death across texts and what those reasons of death say about society we live in today. The texts I used were Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, The Wasteland, by T.S Eliot and Fire and Ice, written by Robert Frost. I felt that all these texts reflected how society shows this idea of death and how we interpret these concepts to become the social norm.
One of the large ways death is presented in these texts is through the empty and desolate settings. In 'The Road' a world is shown as "barren, silent, godless". The silence shows the lifeless within it developing how the death created the world, no signs of any animal or humanity. The word "godless" indicates an emptiness of spirituality or lack of civilization. No gods generally lies close to a world without beliefs. The Wasteland is similar to this with how the world is like a "heap of broken images". While this metaphor may affect our modern world, it shows the barren, desolate plane that is connected to 'The Road'. Coincidentally 'Schindler's List' Chujowa Gorka sequence links the barren world of McCarthy's novel to modern WWII. In the initial shot a conveyor belt is transporting corpses into a large flaming mass in the middle of a large clear plain. This is used to develop a literal take on hell and how destroyed it is (similar to The Wasteland) yet hellish it is perceived. These three texts unify to develop how setting connects them to the overall idea of death. These authors show the potential desolation or hell a world can take when it is threatened by an absence of life. Perhaps most importantly is viewing our modern world ultimately.
Another way death is presented within these texts is the contrast between how good and evil has been characterised. Schindler's List characterises the pinnacles of human morality. Schindler is personified as the ultimate good and epitamy of purity, the action he does reflects this nature,
One of the large ways death is presented in these texts is through the empty and desolate settings. In 'The Road' a world is shown as "barren, silent, godless". The silence shows the lifeless within it developing how the death created the world, no signs of any animal or humanity. The word "godless" indicates an emptiness of spirituality or lack of civilization. No gods generally lies close to a world without beliefs. The Wasteland is similar to this with how the world is like a "heap of broken images". While this metaphor may affect our modern world, it shows the barren, desolate plane that is connected to 'The Road'. Coincidentally 'Schindler's List' Chujowa Gorka sequence links the barren world of McCarthy's novel to modern WWII. In the initial shot a conveyor belt is transporting corpses into a large flaming mass in the middle of a large clear plain. This is used to develop a literal take on hell and how destroyed it is (similar to The Wasteland) yet hellish it is perceived. These three texts unify to develop how setting connects them to the overall idea of death. These authors show the potential desolation or hell a world can take when it is threatened by an absence of life. Perhaps most importantly is viewing our modern world ultimately.
Another way death is presented within these texts is the contrast between how good and evil has been characterised. Schindler's List characterises the pinnacles of human morality. Schindler is personified as the ultimate good and epitamy of purity, the action he does reflects this nature,