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    CONFLICTING PERSPECTIVES ESSAY A composer has a purpose in intentionally assembling a text in order to depict their personal agenda. This is conveyed to the audience throuh the utilisation of the vehicle conflicting perspectives. Also‚ the presentation of a text significantly affects the audience’s overall perception of its set of values.These concepts are illustrated in the Shakespearean play‚’Julius Caesar’. Julius Caesar was published in 1623 during the Elizabethan Renaissance period

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    Conflicting perspectives – bias and self interest "More than anything‚ conflicting perspectives are the result of bias and self-interest" When it comes to literature‚ conflicting perspectives are often woven artfully through the fabric of the text. The Shakespearean tragedy ‘Julius Caesar’ and Rob Sitch’s film ‘The Castle’ are two such pieces of literature that examine a range of conflicting perspectives. Humans are innately biased and self-interested‚ and it is our inability to separate a situation

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    Conflicting Perspectives: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Ambitious Tyrant or “Noblest Man that Ever Lived in the Tide of Times”? An Into English Presentation Conflicting Perspectives: The Theory • All texts are deliberately constructed to convey an agenda and a set of values. • This means that every composer has a purpose‚ which is based on the issues arising from their context and audience. • To that end‚ the composer uses conflicting perspectives as a vehicle for successfully conveying

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    started to be confused about what the truth was … These are the conflicting perspectives that I have experienced in my chosen text which is a stage play called ‘Stolen’ written by Jane Harrison. What makes this text more frightening is the fact that the scenario is real and that it happened in our own backyard (Australia) - and legally! A conflicting perspective is an alternate point of view to the dominant mainstream perspective. The White Australia Policy was in conflict with Aboriginal families

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    alternatives viewpoints as conflicting perspectives are fundamental to our human desire to raise questions about sensitive or controversial issues. In Geoffrey Robertson’s‚ “The Justice Game”‚ his own attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as the censorship of pornography as well as the nature and fairness of the legal system is represented. In the chapters “the Trials of Oz” and “Roman’s in Britain” our human desire to raise questions is evoked through the conflicting perspectives presented through the

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    understanding of the concept of conflicting perspectives. The audience can see that there is a great deal of ubiquity in relation to Conflicting Perspectives. Ted Hughes’ poetry gives his account of a tumultuous part of his life whilst Christine Jeff’s film portrays a different point of view than that given by Hughes’. It is through looking at Salinger’s novel‚ that the role of the authorial voice in contrast to the protagonists can create a conflicting perspective between the protagonist and the

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    Conflicting perspective always exist due to the inevitable subjectivity of composers‚ and the inevitable differing opinions of those around us. Conflicting perspectives are represented by the composer in a way that conveys their personal opinion with the aim to influence their responder’s perspective of the issues and themes presented‚ not in an unbiased and even-handed manner. This is evident within both Snow Falling on Cedars written by David Guterson and the 2008 film Invictus directed by Clint

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    to create. The way in which a composer represents different perspectives throughout texts can have the power to influence and induce their audience to analyse and understand their purpose in a subjective way. Ted Hughe’s famous poems within his anthology ‘Birthday Letters’‚ Sylvia Plath’s moving poetry relating to Hugh’s‚ and the contradictory film by Stephen King‚ ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ are three examples of texts that have conflicting textual form. Hughe’s articulate and diversely structured

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    Intro: Composers use a various amount of techniques to reflect conflicting perspectives such as Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and George Clooney’s Ides of March. Both composers manage to present the ideas of Conflicting perspectives in a way that can influence their audiences. Body 1: Throughout history‚ composers have explored key notions through the conflicting portrayal of central characters. Shakespeare’s’ characterization of Brutus as gullible and naïve is in stark contrast to the depiction

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    HSUN TZU AND MENCIUS: Their Conflicting Perspectives of Society The Warring States period in China (453-221 BCE) presented a time of great confusion and chaos among the people of China. However‚ it was also a great period for the philosophy of Confucianism‚ with the teachings of Mencius and Hsun Tzu to lead the way for their lost followers. According to Hsun Tzu and Mencius‚ human beings give birth to their children with a sense of an inherent reaction to life. Without proper teaching‚ children

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