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25/10/11. Examples of text analysis Can you guess my evaluation/assessment of the following? A MODEL ANALYSIS WILL BE PUBLISHED ON MY WEB PAGE. ON OCTOBER 31 TAKE YOUR PPTS ON PENDRIVES AND NOT ON CDS. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy…. WATCH

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  1. 25/10/11 Examples of text analysis Can you guess my evaluation/assessment of the following? A MODEL ANALYSIS WILL BE PUBLISHED ON MY WEB PAGE. ON OCTOBER 31 TAKE YOUR PPTS ON PENDRIVES AND NOT ON CDS.

  2. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy… WATCH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DDZEdkoaY4&feature=fvwrel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DDZEdkoaY4 Sources The following slides are taken from: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/333861/doppelgangers_in_poes_william_wilson.html?cat=38 And make reference to • "From Doubling to Schizophrenia and Narcissim." July 18, 2007. "Doppelgangers: exploded states of consciousness in fight club." • Johnson, Glen, "Doppelgangers and doubles in Hitchcock's movies." July 16, 2007. • Horsley, Jake. "Where is My Mind: Notes on Purity of Impulse in Fight Club." • Poe, Edgar Allan. "William Wilson." Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Vintage Books. Random House. New York. 626-641. • Pulliam, June. "Sorry, I'm Not Myself Today." July 8, 2007. http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/pages/doubles/doppelgangers.html>http://www.divinevirus.com/fightclub.html>http://www.lsu.edu/necrofile/doppelganger23.htm>

  3. William Wilson by E.A. Poe. Main theme? Does it ring a bell? William Wilson begins with the narrator introducing himself with a fake name: William Wilson. He doesn’t want to tell you his real name. He would like you to sit and listen to his story, the story of his fall into true and terrible evil, and if you wouldn’t mind, try to feel some sympathy for him, as he was the victim of fated circumstances beyond his control. William’s story begins in his childhood; he always had an overactive imagination and a strong will and a propensity for vice. When he was in school, he dominated all of the other boys – except for one, another young lad who also had the name William Wilson, who was the same age and looked exactly the same as our narrator. The two boys competed in every way, and the second William Wilson often stopped the first from doing anything immoral.

  4. He runs away ends up next at Eton, but before long finds himself tormented by a masked and cloaked figure whom he knows to be the second William Wilson. He goes on to Oxford and engages in vice to no end, only to find that the masked double is behind him once again. One night, after winning an exorbitant amount at cards, William’s double shows up and reveals that he has been cheating. William travels all over the world but cannot escape the second William Wilson. One night, at a masquerade ball, he decides to finally put an end to this. He takes his double into a private room and stabs him fatally – only to find that, rather than facing a second William Wilson, he faces only his own reflection in a mirror. His reflection tells him that he only lived through his double, and that now he has murdered himself.

  5. Film is the medium which brings life to screenwriting. A form of literature, screenwriting is frequently based on prose. Literary works are often the muse which inspires modern cinematography. An example of this inspiration can be found in the parallels between Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson" and "Fight Club” (both the novel and the movie). "Fight Club" contains doppelganger characters similar to the ones in "William Wilson" and can be considered a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe's work.

  6. "Fight Club" introduces us to an insomniac protagonist so oppressed by the empty pursuits of his consumer lifestyle that he is literally ready to try anything. "Like so many others, I had become a slave." Frustrated with the materialistic lifestyle of Western society, the narrator turns inward, to Tyler. The two men bond, and become best friends. Self destruction is the bond that ties the narrator to Tyler. Suffering from what he believes to be a lack of sleep, the narrator insists "with insomnia, nothing is real. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy" (Fight Club). This copy implication refers to the copy that Tyler is of the narrator. Through his supposed insomnia, the narrator is unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. The copy can also be considered a copy of himself-- the formation of Tyler. The insomnia mentioned by the "Fight Club" narrator is mirrored in "William Wilson," as the narrator ponders "have I not been living in a dream?" (Poe 626). The line between reality and fantasy is often smudged in a dreamer's world. Both narrators are uncertain where the dreaming ends and reality begins.

  7. Like Edgar Allan Poe's other William Wilson, the "Fight Club" alter ego, Tyler carries the weight of being evil. He "is the embodiment of pure id - the catalyst that allows you to see your own destiny" (Doppelgangers). According to Freud, the id doesn't care about reality, about the needs of anyone else, only its own satisfaction. "Self-improvement is masturbation. Self-destruction is the answer" is Tyler's motto (Fight Club). Self destruction is the original bond that the narrator and Tyler share. Self destruction becomes inevitable in "Fight Club" when the narrator realizes he has control over himself and Tyler.

  8. Much like the narrator in "William Wilson" who stabbed the "sword, with brute ferocity, repeatedly through and through his bosom," the "Fight Club" narrator also recognizes his own strength and control . As the narrator of "Fight Club" realizes he has control, he brings the gun to his mouth. When Tyler challenges him about killing himself, the narrator smartly replies, "Not my head Tyler--Our head" (Fight Club). At his own impending suicide, the narrator tells Tyler, "My eyes are open". This remark refers to several things. The statement refers to a cured insomnia as well as a clear vision of what is happening in reality.

  9. Very similar to the end of the movie "Fight Club," the conclusion of Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson" ends in a suicide/murder. Poe finally reveals William Wilson's psychological terror when the narrator realizes, "It was Wilson, but he no longer spoke in a whisper, and I could have fancied that I myself was speaking". As is the tendency of a doppelganger story, the main character has to "acknowledge what the double represents, and at the same time struggle against it".

  10. Ego, Super-ego, Id?

  11. What would you put in evidence about the following texts if you had to analyse them?

  12. Analysis Voodoo girl by Tim Burton Her skin is white cloth And she’s all sewn apart And she has many colored pins Sticking out of her heart. She has a beautiful set Of hypno-disk eyes The ones that she uses To hypnotize guys She has many different zombies Who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie Who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, A curse she cannot win. For, if someone gets too close to her The pins stick farther in.

  13. “Soon I should be a man?” “Very soon” “I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things” he told her passionately. “I don’t want to be a man…keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man”. “But, where are you going to live?” “With Tink in the house we built for Wendy. The fairies are to put it high up among the tree tops where they sleep at nights”. “I thought all the fairies were dead”, Mrs. Darling said. “There are always a lot of young ones”, explained Wendy, who was now quite an authority, “because you see, when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the top of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are”. (Peter Pan – JM Barrie)

  14. Every grain of sand In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest needWhen the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seedThere's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhereToiling in the danger and in the morals of despair.Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistakeLike Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must breakIn the fury of the moment I can see the master's handIn every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryearLike criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheerThe sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.….I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the nightIn the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintry lightIn the bitter dance of loneliness fading into spaceIn the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face.

  15. “I want to be sick. Please let me be sick. Please bring something for me to be sick into”. But this dr. Brodsky called back: “Imagination, only. You’ve nothing to worry about. Next film coming up”. That was perhaps meant to be a joke for I heard a like smeck coming from the dark. And then I was forced to viddy a most nasty film about Japanese torture. It was the 1939-45 war and there were soldiers being fixed to trees with nails and having fires lit under them and having their yarbles cut off, and you even viddied a gulliver being sliced off a soldier with a sword and then with his head rolling about and the rot and glazzies looking alive still, the plott of this soldier actually ran about, krovvying like a fountain out of the neck and then it dropped and all the time there was very very loud laughter from the Japanese. “Stop the film! Please, please, stop it! I can’t stand any more.”. And then the goloss of this dr. Brodsky said: “Stop it? Stop it, did you say? Why, we’ve hardly started”. (A Clockwork Orange – A. Burgess)

  16. READ THE EXTRACT given in the following slides AND ANALYSE IT FOLLOWING SOME GUIDE QUESTIONS You can also add things which are not included in the guide questions. You can choose to analyse the text following what was presented yesterday in the ‘method of analysis’ slides (in class discussion 7 november)

  17. Questions on the text: Analyse all the adjectives, nouns and verbs of the text. Can you identify different text types? Can you identify narrative, descriptive or other kinds of sequences? What are their distinctive traits? What about the use of verb tenses?

  18. Who is the narrator? What about his style? Do you consider this extract a piece of written or spoken text? After reading and understanding the whole extract use some adjectives to describe the text and provide reasons for your choice. Can you see the use of words related to a specific semantic field and special lexicon? Can you identify semantic fields? One? More than one?

  19. From Fight Club The only woman here at Remaining Men Together, the testicular cancer support group, this woman smokes her cigarette under the burden of a stranger, and her eyes come together with mine. Faker. Faker. Faker. Short matte black hair, big eyes the way they are in Japanese animation, skim milk thin, buttermilk sallow in her dress with a wallpaper pattern of dark roses, this woman was also in my tuberculosis support group Friday night. She was in my melanoma round table Wednesday night. Monday night she was in my Firm Believers leukemia rap group. The part down the center of her hair is a crooked lightning bolt of white scalp. When you look for these support groups, they all have vague upbeat names. My Thursday evening group for blood parasites, it’s called Free and Clear. The group I go to for brain parasites is called Above and Beyond.

  20. And Sunday afternoon at Remaining Men Together in the basement of Trinity Episcopal, this woman is here, again. Worse than that, I can’t cry with her watching. This should be my favorite part, being held and crying with Big Bob without hope. We all work so hard all the time. This is the only place I ever really relax and give up. This is my vacation. I went to my first support group two years ago, after I’d gone to my doctor about my insomnia, again. Three weeks and I hadn’t slept. Three weeks without sleep, and everything becomes an out-of-body experience. My doctor said, “Insomnia is just the symptom of something larger. Find out what’s actually wrong. Listen to your body.” I just wanted to sleep. I wanted little blue Amytal Sodium capsules, 200milligram-sized. I wanted red-and-blue Tuinal bullet capsules, lipstick-red Seconals.

  21. My doctor told me to chew valerian root and get more exercise. Eventually I’d fall asleep. The bruised, old fruit way my face had collapsed, you would’ve thought I was dead. My doctor said, if I wanted to see real pain, I should swing by First Eucharist on a Tuesday night. See the brain parasites. See the degenerative bone diseases. The organic brain dysfunctions. See the cancer patients getting by. So I went. The first group I went to, there were introductions: this is Alice, this is Brenda, this is Dover. Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. I never give my real name at support groups. The little skeleton of a woman named Chloe with the seat of her pants hanging down sad and empty, Chloe tells me the worst thing about her brain parasites was no one would have sex with her. Here she was, so close to death that her life insurance policy had paid off with seventy-five thousand bucks, and all Chloe wanted was to get laid for the last time. Not intimacy, sex.

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