Contemporary English literature has produced a plethora of novels dealing with the everyday lives of people within the context of their place of origin and their unique culture. The United Kingdom is currently seeing the rise of potential cult classics such as Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, which followed the lives of heroine junkies in modern-day Edinburgh; and Bridget Jones" Diary by Helen Fielding, a day-by-day account of the trials and tribulations of a single woman in cosmopolitan London.
Nick Hornby, a music and pop-culture critic, has been at the forefront of this genre with works like High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy, and How to be Good. High Fidelity, his most celebrated work, is about a record shop owner from London in his thirties who is trying to cope with a recent break-up with his girlfriend. The novel, like Trainspotting and Bridget Jones", is another potential cult classic. According to Penguin Puntam books, it is a number one best seller, and a critic's favorite on both sides of the Atlantic. .
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A testament to this is the 2000 release of a movie adaptation of the novel starring John Cusack. Though not a top-grosser, it was heralded for its simple beauty consistent with that of the novel. Rob Blackwelder of Spliced Wire says, the movie, like the novel, "will stand the test of time because it captures this generation's most common relationship foible so amusingly" (http://www.splicedonline.com/00reviews/hifi.html). .
The novel was indeed an accurate depiction of the idiosyncrasies of amorous relationships. The reason for this stems from the kind of main protagonist present in the story. Rob Flemming, who narrates his account of heartbreak, is as idiosyncratic as the relationships he is in. It can be seen that he responds to gender roles quite peculiarly. It is therefore apt that a gender analysis of him be undertaken.
High Fidelity On the surface, High Fidelity is a story about breaking up and getting back together again. ... We only learn about Laura as we learn about Rob's past. ... We learn things as Rob himself is ready to deal with them. ... Yet Frear doesn't trap the audience in Rob's perspective alone. ... High Fidelity is an entertaining, but poignant look at breaking up. ...
High Fidelity is a more modern rendition of Annie Hall, but it centers around a record store owner and movie geek. ... We witness some of the best directing of all time as we are put into the mindset of John Cusack's character, Rob. ... The cameos by Tim Robbins and Bruce Springsteen are also hilarious-especially Robbins who is a high-flying, world music loving, martial arts expert who also looks like some sort of new age hippy and worst of all he's living with Laura, Cusack's ex-girlfriend. ...
Henry Flemming Age Comparison Henry Flemming underwent a major change as he became older. ... Regardless the reason, the older Henry Flemming was much more courageous than he was as a youth and there are a few situations in which he was able to prove that his courage had grown. ... Henry Flemming as a youth was naive and had not matured and these conditions helped in the fact that Henry was not very courageous. ...
Response Bull (1988) studied the behavioral nature of a large herbivorous skink, Trachydosaurus rugous to analyze the reason for social monogamy and mate fidelity. ... This was a clear case of mate fidelity. Consequently, it was suggested that males preferred to choose the female they were successful with the previous year, rather than choose unresponsive (immature) females and waste courtship time. ... It was also observed that males in pairs had food in their mouths more often when females also had food in their mouths than when females had not been feeding. ... Moreover, the reason that Bul...
Throughout this essay we will explore youth and gender stereotyping, the negative effect of gender stereotyping, and, gender stereotyping and the media. Gender stereotyping starts at a young age. ... When males and females feel the same emotions their reactions are totally different. Because of gender stereotyping, males tend to be more passive with emotion, females being more open and expressive. ... They may be good guide lines but, they can rob a child of who they are. ...
Increasing focus on metaphors, as well as stereotypes, have been arising as means to understand and encapsulate society. ... Still a prominent and ever-growing aspect of society, this sub-culture became a paradigm that a sizable conglomerate of people share across the globe, that has pushed a surging movement to break the negative stereotypes relating to females. ... Condit (2001), and "The Egg and The Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles," by Emily Martin (2003), discuss the strength of implications held in metaphors, as well as the g...
Cohabitation The article that I used for this abstract was titled "Let's Stop Harassing Couples Who Finally Commit."" This article talks about the movie "High Fidelity- and how every Catholic Priest should see it. The author of this article talks about how priests and parents are against cohab...
Stereotypes and stereotyping has been around for hundreds of years, even though they may not be accurate. ... One major stereotype out there today that isn't necessarily true is that all blonde girls are dumb. ... Even though there have been some movies to try to prove the stereotype as a myth ,such as Legally Blonde and House Bunny, the "dumb blonde" stereotype is still one of the most famous today. ... For example, the valedictorians for the past three years at my high school have been blonde females. Each of these girls have taken Advanced Placement (AP) and College Prep (...
Immediately sex roles are defined and can be divided into stereotypes. ... The criminal justice process has generally reinforced the gender polarization stereotypes. These stereotypes have placed female offenders into two categories. ... This occurs when male judges treat females with more leniency's because society has reinforced the stereotype that females should be managed with a fatherly or protective manner because of the assumption that females have an inherently submissive domestic nature (Parisi, 1982). ... Traditionally stereotyped female type crimes have been property offenses,...
