Although the advert has been created to influence its audience with a particular message, many different readings can be taken thus highlighting how a wide variety of audiences can react differently to the media based on their beliefs or values; these different readings can be identified through Stuart Hall's Reception Theory. According to Richard Sharpe (2012) "Reception theory is a version of reader-response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text" and is broken down into three types "Preferred, negotiated and oppositional reading". ...

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With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... The Panopticon was a design for a prison produced by Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century which grouped cells around a central viewing tower. ...

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Later in the play, the reader sees how Olivia bided time so that she could choose her own lover, and in a bold move, she asks Cesario to marry her, without waiting for any proposal from any other man. ... An alternate reading, however, may yi...

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However, this piece of legislation was by no means unconditional – it was passed almost simultaneously alongside the infamous Peace Preservation Law, an unforgiving attack on dissenting activity that will be considered later on in this essay. ...

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