The film WALL-E underlines the environmental issue of humanity’s irresponsibility in caring for Earth. It begins by negatively conveying the planet. Just as the lyrics of Put On Your Sunday Clothes (non-diegetic sound) get to, “Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby,” the Earth is shown: musty and surrounded in haze, using colour symbolism to portray age and lifelessness. The lyrics and the vision of the Earth juxtapose, contrasting the ideas of what was and what is. The haze is actually space debris, an example of humans having directly disregarded their environment. On Earth, a poster reads, “Wall-E, working to dig you out!” revealing further irresponsibility through a light-hearted poster whose tone should have reflected the crisis. …show more content…
Buy and Large and its team of robots control everything on the Axiom and, previously, Earth. The montage of Wall-E journeying to his house highlights an ultrastore, a gas station and a bank, all owned by BNL. Their jingle, “… We got all you need and so much more,” confirms subtle totalitarianism. 700 years later, humans are reliant on robots. Only the Captain views this negatively, muttering, “Honestly, it’s the one thing I get to do on this ship,” insisting on doing the announcements. The music turns adventurous; ironic since the act is not heroic. It emphasises how little the Captain does. Later, the Captain is determined to hinder Auto from preventing the ship’s return to Earth- and stands, symbolising independence. The Star Wars music stresses the event’s importance: humans can live …show more content…
The government and police, supposedly the peacekeepers, steal from the poor for personal gain. Raphael says casually, “You don’t see many police in Behala, because in a shanty you sort out your own problems,” revealing that he accepts this fact. Though a public service, the poor are denied it as the police are above helping them. When arrested, Raphael is threatened with death and hurt for information. But this is nothing to the deceit of the government. Mr. Olondriz received life imprisonment for attempting to sue the Senator with large-scale theft. He says, “‘… I thought it was all so… obvious, that I need not be afraid. I had lawyers who were relaxed… (They) had been bought… It is enough to make you laugh, almost…’”. Irony is used: the outcome of the backstory is vastly different to that expected, signifying ludicrousy. The Daily Star mocks, “... someone’s going to ask the question: ‘What was ten million dollars doing in your house, sir?’... I didn’t say that, sir… don’t shoot my family!” It utilises satire to increase the audience’s support of the writer, and ultimately the reader’s stance against
The Book of Revelation and the movie WALL-E serve as distinct forms of apocalyptic literature to expose the reality of the human condition beneath the surface. Even though there are blatant disconnects between the two, they both share common ground as criticisms of society and to warn humanity of its coming judgement. The Book of Revelation and WALL-E offer a frightening yet rectifiable future for humanity by remaining loyal to its “core values”.
In Wall-E there is a robot designed to clean the inhospitable earth in order for the human societies to come back. In the waste land, trash fills the streets and oceans completely dry up. The land is so hostile that the all the other robots break down and Wall-E is the only robot left. During
As a society, we focus some of our thoughts on how to preserve the Earth and different ways to recycle and keep it clean. Although we do have an effort into saving our home planet, we, as a whole race, don’t have our hearts in it. There are the people who are obsessive economists and worry about the world excessively and those who don’t care enough or at all. The two stories both present a possible outcome for our lack of effort in preserving the Earth in two different genres, fiction and nonfiction. Of the two stories “Silent Spring” and “If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…”, the one i felt most affected by was Marvin in, “If
The purpose of this irony is to shock the reader, since ironic things are by definition unexpected, it works well as a twist in the story.
Irony is when the most unlikely and opposite thing that can occur in a situation takes place. In literature, irony plays a major role in evolving a story onward and deepening its meaning. For instance, in the short story “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, there are quite a few examples of irony that completes the understanding of the short story as a whole. Trifles is about a farmer, John Wright, who has been murdered in his sleep one night by a stringing a rope around his neck that killed him. And the first suspect that comes to mind is his wife, Minnie Wright. While Mrs.Wright is taken into custody the County Attorney, the Sheriff and his wife Mrs.Peters, and a neighborhood farmer and his wife Mrs.Hales come to investigate the crime scene and look
...octor is an obstetrician but cannot save the life of the child. In the three central texts discussed heretofore it has become evident to the reader that irony is used to aid in the representation of an unfortunate event. The study of more short stories could come to show how irony can be used to demonstrate many events that end with different outcomes, whether they are positive or negative as in this case.
...nd nature and the consequence of humankind overindulging in the superfluous luxuries that are beyond the necessities of food, shelter, clothing and fuel. Perhaps Wall-e is a message that the transcendentalist beliefs of Emerson and Thoreau should still be uplifted today, or maybe it was unintentional that the modern popularity of environmentally friendly movements encloses the fossil messages.
Another example of irony is when Leonce comes back from his night of enjoyment and tries to wake Enda up to be his audience. Leonce gets annoyed when she does not give him her attention and here the voice of the story refers to Edna as him “sole object of his existence”. “He thought it very dis...
As for “Oedipus the King”, irony is present, just in a different manor. The type of irony seen in this story is dramatic. The audience knows who the murderer of Laius his whereas Oedipus does not. This is mainly ironic because, in fact, Oedi...
use of irony helps to develop the relationship that he had with his people and how his wrong
The planet earth as we know it had become completely trashed thanks to humankind, and the focus on technology and consumerism caused this issue to be too much that could ever be cleaned up. Buy-n-Large was the major corporation that caused the major focus on consumerism and less attention towards the planet, and their plan to “clean up earth again” while the humans were away on a cruise failed leaving the humans on the space ship in space for hundreds of years. The Buy-N-Large corporation had become so vital to everyone’s way of life, it was socially unacceptable to not be apart of it. This dependance on this corporation made people blind to the effect it was having on the environment. In Bodil Birkebæk Olesen’s article “When Blue Jeans Went Green”, Olesen explains the American social importance to cotton made denim jeans, this parallels the reliance the people in Wall-E had on Buy-N-Large in that their obsession is very similar. Olesen concluded with somewhat of the same warning Wall-E gave, if people don’t learn to give up some of the things that are important to them that are destroying the environment, the planet will suffer. While technology was supposed to be a positive thing by cleaning up all of the trash and allowing the human’s a place to live, the effects of
In the article “Consumer Apocalypse: WALL-E,” Chris Barsanti explains that the planet “is a planet destroyed by overconsumption, aided and abetted by a sickening web of consumer-industrial-complex propaganda.” Amanda Yesilbas, Katharine Trendacosta, and Annalee Newitz echo this argument in the article, "13 Post-Apocalyptic Stories That Actually Teach Valuable Lessons," when considering the film Logan’s Run: they state, “garbage in, garbage out” which solidifies the idea that if we treat the earth like garbage, we will get garbage in return. Although there are many more examples, these films help connect the idea that nature and the environment are fragile things that must be cared for and not abused. They want to push the ideal of conservation in a subtle and fantastical way; making you stop and think of what could become of the planet if we do not take care of
However, “WALL-E” proves to be more successful in emulating the idea to the audience. In addition, “Idiocracy” was too unrealistic and over exaggerated every aspect of a future Earth. These aspects contributed to a ‘fake’ view of the future and as a consequence, they don’t get the message crossed with the same impact that “WALL-E” did. The Disney Pixar movie has got less lines and tries to convey the idea through the visual scenario. Besides this, by keeping it simple and showing that today’s attitudes can lead to a dystopian society, it makes the audience realize that pollution is an actual problem but that our civilization needs to take action as soon as possible to try to reverse this alarming
One of the films that deal greatly with the effects of overconsumption on the environment is the animated motion picture WALL-E (2008). The movie is set on Earth in the year 2805 where the Earth is a barren wasteland, void of any signs of life (save for cockroaches).
In the book Hamlet by Shakespeare, irony is used numerous times in order to give the reader insight on what is going on. As stated in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, irony is an action that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. If this strategy were not included in this drama, it would take away the whole purpose. This play would consist of no suspense and would be extremely boring to the reader because the characters would know as much as the readers know. This allows for incite to what can happen in the future or what has happened in the past. The irony in this play ultimately revolves around Hamlet and his plan to achieve revenge with Claudius. From the play that Hamlet organizes about the death of his father to the ending where Fortinbras happened to be at the right place at the right time to take over the throne in Denmark; this paper examines the cases in where irony is used to show how Hamlet is preventing his murderer uncle from getting away with his fathers death.