Ramona Flowers and Scott Pilgrim

Imagine one day you meet the person of your dreams and you are so infatuated by the individual that you would do anything and everything to win them over. This person makes you feel like you are on top of the world and capable of anything. However there is one circumstance that you must overcome, you must prove to the individual your dedication to them by battling all seven of their intimidating exes. Everyone knows the iconic Universal Studio logo, but imagine the logo pixelated symbolizing a video game.

A first glance you can imagine the movie being some type of gamer related film then all of a sudden some type of upbeat yet ear ringing music begins to play changing its whole dynamic. This is how the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World begins, immediately grabbing the audience’s attention. In the film, Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) falls in love with a girl named Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).

Ramona Flower seems to be everything that Scott has ever dreamed of, but in order to lock in their relationship he must battle her seven jealous exes. Although the movie seems like the events that occur are highly unrealistic and targeted towards the gamer and comic book fans the movie puts a twist on your typical teen romance and makes it film that anyone can enjoy. This is established through the use of special effects, upbeat music and great cinematography.

The most noticeable and attention-grabbing features of this movie would have to come from the unique use of special effects. In the opening scenes when the characters are being introduced it gives the viewer small inputs of information about the character such as their name, age and preferences.

This mimics the idea of gamertags that are typically set in the beginning of games to help you establish character roots. By using this unique way of opening the film it really aligns with the whole comic book and video game setting the film is trying to establish. Another great use of special effects in the film is use of floating onomatopoeias during fight scenes.

For instance when Scott fights any of Ramona’s exes words mimicking noises from punches being thrown would appear on the screen just like it would do so in a graphic novel or comic book. Special effects like such really brought the film’s comic book and video game feel together while integrating the purpose of the story.

Although there is no music in comic books there is always music in video games. In video games the music usually is there to boost your confidence and performance, it does exactly that in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Scott Pilgrim is a young adult that plays for his band called Sex Bob-Omb. His band is known by very few people, but those that are aware of his band are really appreciative of it. Many of the music presented throughout the movie comes from the band itself.

The music that the band plays always supports the mood of what is occurring in the particular scene. For example in the closing scene Scott has a sudden realization that he is capable of winning Ramona over and goes to where she is partying to win her over completely. What should be noted that is that at this particular nightclub Ramona is with one of her exes that Scott defeated before. For some reason Ramona is has some vulnerability to this particular ex named Matthew Patel.

Gideon is also the owner of the nightclub that they are in and has signed his band. When Scott confronts Gideon to confess his love for Ramona the band begins to play music that intensifies the situation. The as the fighting begins over Ramona the band unconsciously plays music that is perfectly timed and paced to enhance the mood of the scene. The music throughout the film really brings all of the emotions that the characters are experiencing and really amplifies the viewer’s experience overall boosting the film’s originality.

The film has a sense originality that really enhanced the viewers opinion on how well the film was produced. The cinematography is one of the most impactful elements that makes the film. Again referring to the final fight scene with Gideon, really kept the viewers engaged. In this scene not only is their mood setting music playing in the background being performed by his band but there are other elements like camera angles, framing of shots and lighting that really bring not only this particular fight scene together but every other one as well. In this scene there are lots of shots that bring the viewer into the fight scene as if the were Scott himself.

As this is occurring the lighting comes to a spotlight that is only one the fighters emphasizing how important this fight really is. Then once again the camera angle only better this final battle but moving continuously changing the viewers point of view. The shots used were a very unique way to tell the story and really put into play what the producer (Universal Studios) was trying to incorporate the whole video game and comic book theme.

Although at the end of the film we are completely unaware if Romana and Scott’s relationship will last, we can relate to this cluelessness and infer what happens ourselves. The film really emotionally impacts us as viewers due to the fact many of us could end up in a more realistic yet compelling situation as such in order to find the person of our dreams.

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Pilgrim Fathers

The pilgrim fathers where different to other colonists because when they arrived in America they did not explore the land. The pilgrim fathers stayed at the beach, set up camp and survived badly. The pilgrim fathers where extremely religious. They would not sing any song or do any dance because it distracted their memory when they talked to god. The pilgrim fathers where ordinary people with ordinary jobs such as a black smith or farmers. When the pilgrim fathers travelled to America they had a lot of problems.

They travelled with about 20 people on a very small boat. This made many people sick. The boat was so cramped that 2 men died and a baby was born! On the journey they didn’t have any materials with them so they could not do anything to fix the boat. They struggled heavily. It took them 65 days to travel across the ocean and land in America. They arrived on January the 4th 1920. It was extremely cold where they stayed. When the pilgrim fathers met Squanto it was like meeting god for them. This is because Squanto was fluent at English and he knew how to survive.

Squanto taught the pilgrim fathers how to fish herring, how to plant corn his way and how to survive the winter. The Indians respected the land and shared it with everyone. No one owned any piece of land. However, the English wanted to trade land and keep it for themselves. The Indians did not like this because they considered their land as a god. The native Americans (Indians), taught the English to eat pumpkin pie and corn. This was very strange for the English because it wasn’t part of their usual diet. This is remembered on the 25th of November in America. They call it ‘thanks giving’.

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Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Swift’s A Tale of a Tub

Although the two pieces express different themes, the allegory entitled The Pilgrim’s Progress, written in 1678 by John Bunyan, and the work A Tale of a Tub, published in 1704, but written earlier by Jonathan Swift have some striking similarities. The most notable similarity is the theme of a journey through life and through Christianity, and the many aspects of the lives of the protagonists. The Pilgrim’s Progress chronicles the adventures of Christian, as he tries to find his way from the city of destruction (the world) to the celestial city, where everything is perfect (heaven), which rests atop Mount Zion.

This piece expresses themes of Christianity, and how certain aspects of the religion may help to overcome particular temptations and troubles in the world. Christian, as he travels, has a great burden, which weighs him down, because he had read “the book in his hand,” (the Bible) which helped keep him out of Tophet, the miserable place (hell). Particular characters that Christian encounters after he has set out play different roles, and some try to get him to remain sinful, and adopt the ways of the city of destruction (such as the two men he encountered just after setting out on his journey, named Obstinate and Pliable.

These men of the world, the city of destruction, represent the weaker qualities of Christian, who is always somewhat tempted to stay in the city of destruction, and forego the path to the celestial city. Through Christian’s travels, which undoubtedly represent the righteous path of life, everyone he encounters offers some form of temptation, whether it be good- leading him to the wicket gate, or bad, trying to keep him in the city of destruction. At the end of his story, Christian arrives in the celestial city.

The second part of The Pilgrim’s Progress details the story of his wife, Christiana, and their sons, who have similar, worldly experiences. Also in her story are metaphorically named characters who seek to persuade Christiana one way or another, and they represent the evils of the world and the righteousness of heaven. Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub also chronicles the lives of Christians (three brothers, who represent main branches of Christianity) but it must be said that the work is quite satirical.

In the story are three brothers named Peter (who represents the saint of the same name), Martin (named for Martin Luther), and Jack (who represents John Calvin). Peter’s story marks the chronicles of the Roman Catholic Church, while Martin represents the Church of England, and Jack, the major Protestant sects. In the story, each brother inherited a coat, that had certain features on it, representing features of their religion, and they were told not to alter the coats, but all they do is change them.

This represents people who have altered the church or its practices for personal gain. The brothers in the story represent a basic theme that was prevalent in society at the time, which was the celebration of modernization and secularism over classic religion. And this is what connects the two pieces. In each work, the protagonists are provided with temptations that seek to alter or even minimize classic religion, for the sake of different individuals’ worldly gains.

But in each allegory were numerous other metaphors and allusions, which represented myths or other stories that helped to explain the writer’s direction in each story. “A considerable, but by no means the largest or ablest, portion of the work is occupied by an account of the quarrels of the churches, told in the famous story of three brothers, Peter, Martin and Jack,” says an exert from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

“representing Roman Catholics, Anglicans and puritans; of the coat bequeathed to them by their father, whose will, explaining the proper mode of wearing it, they first interpreted each in his own way, and then, after many ingenious evasions of it, locked up in a strong box; and of their subsequent quarrels concerning the will and its significance. Throughout, the brothers act in accordance with the doctrine that beings which the world calls clothes are, in reality, rational creatures or men, and that, in short, we see nothing but the clothes and hear nothing but them.

” Swift also included in the work the superficial nature of many religious figures. The clothes the characters wore were always being altered, representing manmade changes in the religions, but they also demonstrate that people may show their religion to others first (by “wearing,” or sporting it) without even being faithful or an obedient participant in the religion. In the satire, Swift seems to side with the original Martin Luther, who was infuriated with the church as it sold “forgiveness” to sinners. This feature of the church was acquired, and not historically or cardinally supported.

It only served to improve monetary gain for men of the church, which is much of what happens in A Tale of a Tub. And in Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, the temptations and worldly desires that the characters are confronted with represent the world’s secular impact on the church. The church was always changing, as men of the church felt they could utilize it, and exploit its sovereignty for personal gain, which is what the various metaphorically-named characters that Christian and Christiana encountered were trying to do.

Swift and Bunyan’s subliminal criticism of the church and its practices, which were always straying from its ideals, is the greatest similarity between the two highly-metaphorical works that seek to criticize the downsides of religious practice. But the two works also encourage the righteous aspects of reverence. They make very obvious the ways in which religion can be exploited for basic secular gains, and in doing so, by having the characters that exhibit those poor traits somehow villains, the authors signify how one is to correctly remain reverent.

In Bunyan’s work, he makes Biblical sin a reality, which physically burdens man when he is righteous enough to recognize that he has erred, and gone against his religion’s teachings. “As I walk’d through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certainplace where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream,” Bunyan wrote of Christian at the beginning of his allegory. “I dreamed, and behold I saw a Man cloathed with Rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a Book in his hand, and a great Burden upon his back.

I looked, and saw him open the Book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled; and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying What shall I do? ” This is how he sets the stage for the story about a righteous man who is forced to survive in a land of evils and temptations, which seek to destroy his reverence. “Then Christian fell down at his foot as dead, crying, Wo is me, for I am undone: At the sight of which, Evangelist caught him by the right hand, saying, All manner of sin and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto men; be not faithless, but believing.

Then did Christian again a little revive, and stood up trembling, as at first, before Evangelist,” Bunyan wrote in Pilgrim’s Progress, demonstrating how righteousness and reverence to religion, not necessarily to the secular church, can save man and lead him out of evil. This character, Evangelist, represents a truly righteous man of the church, who in every way demonstrates the how to apply the religion’s teachings, and how to refrain from evil.

“The wits of the present age being so very numerous and penetrating,” Swift writes of his own enterprise in writing A Tale of a Tub in the work’s preface, “it seems the grandees of Church and State begin to fall under horrible apprehensions lest these gentlemen, during the intervals of a long peace, should find leisure to pick holes in the weak sides of religion. ” This notifies his intentions in writing the satire, which was criticizing particular religious practices, which are actually nothing more than exploitations of the original religion.

Swift, throughout the work, openly criticizes any change in the three church’s, represented by the characters of the work, as changes only exist as features of the church that stray from the original teachings of the religion. Although Swift’s and Bunyan’s pieces are different, they both satirically chronicle the adventures of characters who are supposed to (but in Swift’s case, they do not) adhere to religious ideals without falling into sin by realizing religion’s secular adaptation.

Each work makes clear that the church should remain stable, and that people who wish to lead a fulfilling life should adhere to reverent practices, and give up irreverent activities and temptations. And in demonstrating how this is done by chronicling the stories of people who struggle between secular and religious lifestyles, Swift and Bunyan have openly criticized some of the church’s (of their times) exploitations of religious teachings for basic secular gains, and how the different sects of Christianity should be uniform in teachings. Works Cited Bacon, Earnest W. John Bunyan: Pilgrim and Dreamer. Baker Book House: Grand Rapids, MI, 1983.

, p. 65 George, Timothy and Dockery, David S. Baptist Theologians. Broadman Press: Nashville, TN, 1990, p. 26. Sir Walter Scott (ed. ), The works of Jonathan Swift D. D. , Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin: containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, not hitherto published. With notes, and a life of the author. 19 vols. (Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co. ; White, Cochrane, and Co. , and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin 1814). Webster, C. M. Swift’s Tale of a Tub compared with Earlier Satires of the Puritans. Proceedings of the Modern Language Association 47/1 (March 1932) 171–178.

Writing Quality

Grammar mistakes

F (43%)

Synonyms

A (100%)

Redundant words

F (54%)

Originality

90%

Readability

F (48%)

Total mark

D

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Pilgrimage Tourism

India being a country of the pious is dotted with sacred pilgrimage centres. Thus, pilgrimage tourism in India is extremely popular. Great religions like Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism have originated on the Indian soil. The Hindu religion and place of worship are always unique to the rest of the world. To the outside world […]

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