1. Slide 3: Relationship between the lyrics and visuals: “Let’s get electrified” matches the action of the African man as he stumbles on his way clutching onto a wire fence which connotes the electric fencing around a prison compound! 2. I like you reference to the Zulu nation and their battle against the British but in the end many Africans were reduced to destitution by colonisation and by Apartheid in South Africa thus the Zulu reference is ironic as well as a tribute. In Western eyes Africans were historically regarded as sub human, aliens, undeveloped and so on, thus the body language, confusion, blindness is a metaphor for the suffering of Africans in the USA. The skyscrapers are monuments of a highly successful economy which was built on slavery as ours is also built on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. 3. To develop the inter textual references explaining the purpose of the intertextual references you have identified and how they add layers of meaning to the narrative.
Articulate, well organised and intelligent though your ideas could've been developed. A strong Level 3.
Also Google Elizabeth Siddal an artist and poet in her own right but a muse for the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, a tragic life which I know you will find intriguing.
1. Slide 3: Relationship between the lyrics and visuals: “Let’s get electrified” matches the action of the African man as he stumbles on his way clutching onto a wire fence which connotes the electric fencing around a prison compound!
ReplyDelete2. I like you reference to the Zulu nation and their battle against the British but in the end many Africans were reduced to destitution by colonisation and by Apartheid in South Africa thus the Zulu reference is ironic as well as a tribute. In Western eyes Africans were historically regarded as sub human, aliens, undeveloped and so on, thus the body language, confusion, blindness is a metaphor for the suffering of Africans in the USA. The skyscrapers are monuments of a highly successful economy which was built on slavery as ours is also built on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
3. To develop the inter textual references explaining the purpose of the intertextual references you have identified and how they add layers of meaning to the narrative.
Articulate, well organised and intelligent though your ideas could've been developed. A strong Level 3.
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Also Google Elizabeth Siddal an artist and poet in her own right but a muse for the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood, a tragic life which I know you will find intriguing.
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