Literary Elements In The Village

I believe M.Night Shyamalan’s film The Village is a work of literary merit. A work of literary merit is the high quality of writing attributed to work of literature. With the use of plot and structure, symbolism, and suspense from Shyamalan provides the evidence to claim The Village is a literary merit.

First, Shyamalan use of plot and structure can determine this film is of literary merit. The plot and structure have many aspects within it, such as the ending. Literary ending often ends unhappily and indeterminate. In The Village, Ivy comes back from her journey with medicine, which is given to Lucius. After a few moments from that scene, the film transitions to the end credits. Many people could see this ending scene as unhappy and indeterminate. It could be viewed this way because, the audience doesn’t actually know if Lucius is going to live or not, there is no spoken or visual confirmation. This leaves the audience to ponder on whether Lucius lives or not, and what would happen if it is the latter. In short, the structure of the ending of the film, which was unsettling and undetermined, achieves to be the
Literary suspense may involve the question “Why?” over “What would happen next?”. This film has parts that could be considered literary suspense. For example, when Noah stabbed Lucius there was a question of “Why?”. “Why?” is asked because Noah committing this act was a sudden and surprising twist. No one would have figured that innocent Noah would be tainted enough to hurt Lucius. Overall, the literary suspense depicted shows the literary merit elements used. In Conclusion, I believe M.Night Shyamalan’s film The Village is a work of literary merit. The use of elements such as plot and structure, symbolism, and suspense determines this claim. Literary merit work is of high quality, which I believe essentially is what the film is made