Tuesday, 21 February 2012

activity9_Metaphor(and Symbol)

Can you have a look at this piece of work and comment on your blog on what you consider to be some of the metaphors being used?

The Big Snit




This is a great example of the use of metaphor in animation. Some types of metaphor’s being used are:

Butterfly >Represent of Short happiness of life before the nuclear war, holocaust and poverty has begun.
Eye> the husband complains about his wife's habit of shaking her eyes. This is a Metaphor of her frustration at her husband taking his time with his turn at scrabble and his “sawing” distraction.
Sawing>Husband has the bad habit of sawing from watching the TV show "Sawing for Teens" They barely notice that there is panic in the streets. Sawing the table and furniture may Metaphor of Life is depressing and stressing enough.
Wings> There is life after death – Everyone maybe dead but finally they are at peace and happy.
Cage> cat swinging off the bird cage. Maybe represent of their marriage life from his side.
Heart in the eye> Metaphor Love. After all this frustration and distressing about their marriage there are still love each other. Till death do us part?
The skeleton news presenter> represent of nuclear war which they don't notice that a nuclear war has begun.



No comments:

Post a Comment