Intertextuality, the definition makes everything new seem to be a Parody or knockoff of one or more things that have came to be that were also knockoffs of things before them. In a sense eventually it will turn into a paradox that will rule everything debated irrelevant and cause confusion in many ways. Intertextuality means that a work of literature is never unique, and that some events in history were because of some of the works in literature such as the Vietcong tunnels and alice in wonder land, also it makes every new piece of literature a parody of something that had come before it and the thing the was before it was a parody as well, also it makes every event in a piece of literature a grand scheme of references to a movie or some of work of literature, since this can be used for historical events my first example will be how Adolf Hitler used the same tactics plus his own addition to the conquering style of Napoleon, who used the same tactics as Alexander the Great who in turn used the same tactics as Kublai Khan who used the same methods as his father Genghis Khan. Also my second example will be how the Vietcong used tunnels like soldiers in WWI used and how it was a idea used from Alice In Wonderland. Now for the final example, in the Naruto Anime and Manga they use Ninjutus and Martial Arts to defeat enemies, which is also how you use ninjutu in all of the Ninja Gaiden games, which was referenced from ancient Japanese scrolls that told about Ninjas using Jutsus to easily defeat their enemies and assassinate their targets with ease. Also even though I have done a good job at explaining this it still makes people and myself get confused and have headaches.
Posted by: James Lynn Intertexuality is the idea that all new written texts aren't actually "new." They are all based on previous works or real life occurances. One example of intertextuality is most modern MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). A majority of them involve you playing a character you created, and you run around killing things and doing quests. Most MMORPGs follow the same concepts, with very few things differentiating each other. For example, some may be fantasy with swords and magic; others may be modernized with guns. Another example is movies, TV shows, anime, and so on. Movies relating to superheroes is the biggest example. A majority of them involve a person with superhuman powers protecting the world from evil. Superman, Fantastic 4, Spiderman, all of these apply to this. Another example I can think of is when an author writes multiple book series. When I think of this case, I think of Erin Hunter, who is the author of the Warriors cat series, which is my favorite series. She also writes similar series; one involving bears, one involving dogs, and probably more. These all have similar ideas of personifying animals into clans and focusing on their lives.
A lot of games and MMOs seem to share a similar premise, but they seem the same to play. Stories and controls are often reused over and over to relate to what is popular.
Posted by: Hannah Cribby Intertextuality is basically saying that everything is a remix. Nothing was created without the help or assistance from something that existed beforehand. When I think about this I immediately think about how similar a lot of music is. For example Shania Twain's 'C'est la Vie!' is somewhat similar in my opinion to ABBA's 'Dancing Queen'. Another thing I thought of was different versions of the same movie like 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Snow White and The Huntsman' because they are both Snow White movies, but with a little tiny difference. My third thing that helps me explain it would have to be clothing because if someone creates something a lot of people like many different versions of it are created afterwards.
Post by: Sofia Ricra Intertextuality is the idea that many works of literature, or movies, are connected, or similar. They feed off of each other in order to enhance their own work. Now, we all know of the good old love story. As much as I love reading and watching these unrealistic novels and movies, I never realized how similar they all are. If we think about it, many of the most successful romantic movies or novels are the same thing, but because they are almost always bound to be successful, directors and authors use almost similar plots, just different characters and settings. Let’s start by talking about two of the most successful romantic movies, one of them being originally a novel by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook and Titanic. In The Notebook, the main characters are Noah and Allie who meet in a small town in North Carolina. They fall in love, but the mother doesn’t approve of them because Noah is poor and he doesn’t live up to what her mother wants for her. In your basic movie/novel there’s always a guy who the mother approves of and who the mother wants her daughter to marry. In The Notebook his name is Lon. Now, in Titanic, the main characters are Jack and Rose who meet on board of the RMS Titanic. They fall in love, but again Rose’s mother doesn’t approve of Jack because he is poor and isn’t what she wants for Rose. The man who Rose’s mother does approve of in Titanic is Cal. Later on a sequel to The Notebook was written, titled The Wedding. It centers around one of Noah and Allie’s daughters and her husband. As you can see, many works of literature center around each other. As I stated before, they all tend to feed of from each other, so we’re all watching and reading the same story.
Nice example of intertextuality and before I started thinking about this I never realized how similar everything is to one another. It's incredible to think that everything invented got there ideas from another source.
Intertextuality is the relationship between different literary works. Stories use and recycle ideas from previous stories, it is inevitable. When this happens, it is known as intertextuality. So if you have ever read a book or watched a film and recognized an idea practiced in another form of literature, you’ve experienced intertextuality. Below are three examples of intertextuality that I have witnessed.
1. In the Broadway play, “Mamma Mia” the storyline of the play coincides with different songs from the popular band ABBA. Recognizing this connection between different works allows the viewer to better understand both the play and the different songs represented in the musical. With previously knowing the songs of ABBA, one can better understand the storyline and underlying messages portrayed in the musical “Mamma Mia.”
2. In the novel “Paper Towns” by John Green, a young woman named Margo decides to leave town without saying goodbye to anyone, especially her neighbor, Quentin who had just shared an very memorable experience with Margo the night before her disappearance. However, Margo leaves clues for Quentin so that he can find her. One of these clues is centered around Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Having read and interpreted the poem, readers can better understand why Margo left that as a clue for Quentin and more of the underlying ideas behind “Paper Towns.”
3. Lastly, in the novel and film adaptation, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” the protagonist, Charlie, and his friends, Sam and Patrick all really enjoy the music of the band The Smiths. Particularly one song known as “Asleep” is mentioned many times throughout both the novel and the movie. This song is very important in describing the emotional state of many of the characters, especially Charlie. Knowing that “Asleep” is a song about suicide and coming to terms with ending life allows readers to better understand just how troubled these teenagers have been and how far they have come.
These were all wonderful examples of intersexuality and the main one I picked up on was "Paper Towns." I saw that when reading the book and it's true that the book is better understood when you know the poem.
I love all of your examples, especially Perks of Being a Wallflower. I think it is one of the books that everyone should read before they go to college.
Intertexuality is known as the idea that no work of literature is completely original. Everything you read will have ideas taken from other works. Everything is intertwined in some way, whether it be from the Bible, from childrens stories, or from old legends passed down through the generations.
An example of this is The Hunger Games. This series of novels comes up with a new way to creat a corrupted society. There are plenty of other novels which contain a corrupted society, such as Divergent, or Matched. These novels all have a different spin on the same concept. The government is terrible, and some person or group of people rebels against the government and saves the day.
Another Example that I feel relates to this would be The Walking Dead. This is a popular show on television that includes zombies and a group of survivors. How familiar does that sound? There are so many movies and television shows where zombies take over the world and a group of survivors is left to fend for themselves. As it goes on, some people die, and the group dwindles, then grows when new people come in. There are many things just like this, such as WWZ and Znation.
My last example is Cinderella. Many, many versions of this classic story have come about since it was created and there are endless spinoffs, but they all follow the same story. A girl is mistreated, then a prince saves the day and marries her. Sounds like all the other princess stories as well. Snow white, Sleeping Beauty, And Beauty And The Beast are all similar examples of this. The only difference is that Belle is actually saving her captor from himself in Beauty And The Beast. Other than that, all of these princess stories, includiung Cinderella are basically just spun off from eachother.
Those are all great examples of intertextuality and I agree that they are very similar; especially the comparison of 'The Hunger Games' and 'Divergent'.
I never thought of comparing Hunger Games to something like Divergent, but the comparison now makes sense to me. I already knew the one about Cinderella, but I never thought about zombie movies or TV shows like that; probably because I'm just too much of a scaredy cat to watch those.
Walking Dead is the best, even though it is becoming an over used genre. When I read Divergent for Mr. Paul's class I thought it was a lot like Hunger Games too.
Intertextuality - The interactive connection between pieces of literature formed as a result of newer pieces of literature deriving their styles and literary patterns from older works. Intertextuality connects to what is popular synonymously, so as to keep literary styles from becoming t0o spread out during one time period. Antonymous connections of intertextuality to what is popular keep produced literature varied by providing different styles than what is most popular.
Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows & The Tails of Beedle the Bard are two books that are closely connected. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, a book comes up called The Tails of Beetle the Bard and because I was given a copy of that book, I could more easily understand Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows because I had something that I had that was seperate from the book.
The Brotherband Chronicles is a companion series to the Ranger’s Apprentice series. Connections between the two are made because the Brotherband Chronicles are based afeter a certain character in ther Ranger’s Apprentice series.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians & The Heroes of Olympus These two series tie into each other because the The Heroes of Olympus series is a fequal series to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. In order to understand predispositions of certain characters, as well as the overall idea of what is going on, it is advisable to read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series befor e The Heroes of Olympus series. -JWG
Intertextuality - Ideas connected simultaneous to other referred works from the past where the newer ideas have risen from and ideas from the past have been risen from other ideas as well.
A great example would be Cinderalla and I was not directly told about this until seventh grade. My language arts teacher kept giving us examples of other cinderella stories and we simply thought it was just lies but it was actually many ideas derived from one single piece and I eventually researched to find it was originally from China. It is amazing how ideas are borrowed and completely redesigned into a different form but still the same idea.
Star Trek would be a great example since it was so amazing and unthinkable in its time and this extended out to something else called Star Wars which was obviously derived from this series but did have its own different aspects compared to Star Trek. Star Trek was a new idea in its era that created many more series such as Space Balls which made fun of Star Wars.
Poltergeist is a book published in 1982 and in that same year a movie was derived from it. Eventually a horror film came out in 1986 with the same characteristics of Poltergeist except it's story line was different but it's creation was derived from Poltergeist with levitating objects and abnormal activities happening in a house.
Star Trek and Star Wars do share many similarities and differences. Star Trek sparked a new idea in it's era that Star Wars may have used. However, they took a new spin on the idea.
Your point does actually make sense. I understand what you're saying by the idea that Star Wars derived from Star Trek. Star Trek came out in 1966, while Star Wars came out in 1977, so it is possible that Star Wars had some inspiration from Star Trek.
Intertextuality is the dialogue between old texts and new texts; the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. 1) In a popular television series, "Hawaii Five-0," there was a dedication episode to Pearl Harbor. In this episode, an elderly Japanese man tells his story living on the concentration camps and the things he and his family went through. Watching this episode, and knowing about the events that happened before, after, and during Pearl Harbor really help viewers to comprehend what it was like.
2) In the movie, "The Best of Me," Dawson Cole is killed and just happens to be an organ donor. Amanda, his high school love, had a son who desperately needed a heart transplant. When he got his transplant, Amanda had no idea that it was Dawson's heart, but eventually she found out. To some viewers, this could remind them to a situation of someone in their life who needs a transplant, or someone in their life who is an organ donor, whose organs are going to help someone. This reminds me of a man I know, "Red" is his nickname and he needed a kidney very bad and was dialysis for a very long time. He finally got his kidney, and it made his family and all his friends very happy.
3) My last example is the movie "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas." Most everyone knows that this movie takes place during World War II and is mainly set around the Jews and the concentration camps. When people see this movie, they typically think of the holocaust and how all the Jews were killed by Hitler and his men.
The idea that all ideas in literature are just being recycled over and over again is intertextuality. It is often said that there are no more original ideas, rather people just include their own take on someone else's previous rendition of a work whether they are aware of its existence or not. For every movie and book there was a predecessor that played its hand a bit different.
My first oddball example is comparing the novel "The Hiding Place" to "E.T. : The Extra Terrestrial". What these to have in common is a basic plot. There is someone who needs a place to hide and survive, but there are people searching for them that will put the foster family in danger. Both families protect them and are eventually caught, but make it out with good endings after some tragedies.
Two books that I read as a child were "Where the Red Ferns Grows" and "Kensuke's Kingdom". These two novels hold the scenario of a young boy eventually having to leave a place they hold dear to them while leaving behind friends that will never be seen again. Kensuke, a crazy old man who lives on an island with a family of arangatangs, refuses to leave his domain and the dogs in "where the red ferns Grow" will only be happy if left in the country. In both cases the boy leaves behind his friends so that they will stay happy where they choose to reside.
For my final example, I want to compare "The Fifth Wave" with "Finding Nemo". Both scenario place an older worried family member in search of a child whose whereabouts are unknown to them yet disclosed to the audience. Through trials, tribulations, and new friends, the worried family locate and rescue the children. The children are both reunited with their family and the stories end happily.
Thats true that ideas are just recycled in literature and reused in pieces of literature. Your examples make since and I can understand them completely good job.
Define intertextuality. Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.
intertextuality - the relationship between texts, especially literary ones, (such as poems, novels, stories, etc...). In other words, people write literature, and other people use, and add to the first work.
1. My first example is "Once Upon A Time", the Television series on the ABC channel. This T.V. show is a spin off of all the Disney princess movies, and the original Disney characters, like Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio, etc... The show also has a character not from Disney, Rumpelstiltskin. This show follows the true story with a twist of its own. Weather it be form the deaths, to the love at first sight, the show uses the stories to help with their own stories.
2. My next example would be every Harry Potter movie and/or book, by J. K. Rowling. No these books are not exactly like the example, but it does resemble it. In the books Harry goes on a different adventure and the books corresponds with each other. How? They follow each other: where one stops the other picks right back up.
3. My final example is Cinderella by Brothers Grimm, Giambattista Basile published in the year 1925. This story has not 3 or 4 different stories or movies, but so many that you could imagine. This story has a girl named Cinderella who has a evil step mother and two evil step sisters that are jealous of her because she has everything that she ever wanted. The evil step mother puts Cinderella in the attic as the slave, and through it all Cinderella keeps a kind heart to her evil step mother, and her two evil step sisters. The night of the ball she arrives in a gown that is the most beautiful and the prince falls head over heels. When she loses her slipper, the prince tries everything to find her, and when he does they live happily ever after. This story has many spin offs like "Another Cinderella Story", or "Cinderella" by Disney, but though out them all that keep the same story line that the first story had.
Nice examples and its good that you used stories that everyone could understand right on the spot. You explained it in detail and told me some things I did not see in the story even after I read it. Good job and I have no complaints.
Intertextuality is when a literary work is linked back to another writing, poem or other literary device to make a connection.
First, an example of intertextuality would be The Wizard of Oz and the story Wicked. The Wizard of Oz was the inspiration for the novel Wicked, which tells the story of how The Wicked Witch of the West came to be.
Second, the popular movie 10 Things I Hate about you is another example. The storyline of the movie is based from William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
Third, the movie Shrek is full of intertextuality. One example of intertextuality in Shrek would be the Three Blind Mice.
Intertextuality is the central idea that no one work is completely original and separate from another, and that every work of literature is connected or linked to another work of literature in some form, shape or way.
The first example of intertextuality I think of is "Twilight" and "The Vampire Diaries." The storyline of these two novels revolves around two supernatural beings (vampires and werewolves), fighting against each other for the love of one human girl, who eventually turns into a vampire.
The second example of intertextuality that comes to mind is "The Lying Game" and "Pretty Little Liars," both written by the author, Sara Shepard. Although these two books are similar, their plot wraps around a girl who is missing, and the friends of this missing girl receive notes and texts that reveal that their missing (and reportedly dead) friend is alive after all. Also, in both of these stories, the missing girl has an identical twin sister. It seems like this author just ran out of ideas.
And the last example of intertextuality I am aware of goes between the two stories "Beastly" and "Beauty and the Beast." In both of these stories (and movies), there is a beautiful girl who happens to fall in love with a grotesque, disgusting beast. The two men in these stories were transformed into beasts due to their arrogant and ignorant nature of loving themselves for how they looked. Both men were destined to find someone to love them, and upon this happening, they would be transformed into the handsome people they were once before.
The idea of intertextuality states that literature is not completely original and is linked to other existing stories or real life events. This is true with all pieces of literature because when an author writes a story, they are influenced by other stories they have heard. One can see intertextuality by observing patterns and recurrences in literature.
I have observed patterns between the two television shows, Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs. The two television programs are about medical interns and their lives working in hospitals. While Grey’s Anatomy is more of a drama and Scrubs is a comedy, both follow the cohesive theme of lives as medical practitioners. Characters in both stories find love in the hospital as they work and take care of patients. The two do not follow the same story, however, they share many similarities. The two films, Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent, both follow the same patterns. Both stories revolve around the popular story of Aurora as she is cursed by the evil Maleficent. The story of Maleficent uses aspects of the older film Sleeping Beauty to create a newer story with more depth. The film, Maleficent, provides the viewer of Maleficent’s backstory as it shows her with a heart and changes the idea of her being totally evil.
A popular theme I have noticed is the idea of a corrupt government. The two trilogies, Uglies and Divergent, are about a group of characters as they discover the truth and fight to make things right. Both stories have a government that brainwashes the people to think a certain way. However, there is always someone who does not fall under their spell. This is the one who turns into the savior, revolting against the government for justice.
Maleficent and Sleeping Beauty are really great examples. I love how Maleficent uses intertextuality to completely change the story of sleeping beauty.
Post By: Karmen Scruggs Intersexuality is the idea that all works of literature (books, movies, songs, plays, etc.) are not written new. They have been created by the use of building, expanding, and changing other works of literature. Sometimes this connection is obvious and other times it is very subtle but the link is still there.
The novel Looking For Alaska by John Green is a wonderful example of intersexuality. The entire book has an underlying question that it is trying to answer throughout the story: “How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?” This is actually a quote from one of the main character’s, Alaska’s, favorite book, The General in His Labyrinth. This is a novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and to understand Looking For Alaska, you have to understand the underlying novel that it is build off of. In Breaking Dawn Part II the movie, the ending is of a collage of a lot of Bella and Edward's most loving memories. The song that is playing behind these memories as they are on screen is “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri. The song really sets the mood for the entire scene because it truly wraps up their whole relationship and helps with the emotional end to the series. In the song “1985” by Bowling For Soup, they reference a lot of other artists and movie stars within their music to get the point of the song across. People like Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Nirvana, and the band Whitesnake are all mentioned within the song as well as many more to get the idea of the song across to the listeners.
Posted By: Adison Costner Intertextuality is when someone takes someone else's work and make it into their own, they change it up so that way it won't be considered copying. Many movies and tv show use intertextuality. Some of the movies also use this to make fun of other movies.
My first example is the “Starving Games”. The Starving Games is a movie that uses the same plot line as in the Hunger Games except they change the meaning of it. In the starving games, they make fun of the Hunger Games, they mock it.
My second example is “Elementary”. Elementary uses intertextuality by having the same cast as Sherlock Holmes. In this tv show they have a man playing sherlock, and of course his name was Sherlock,he played as a detective.
My last example is “Superman” and “Batman”. Both of these movies are basically the same. Both movies have a hero, a villain, and a damsel in distress. They both have the same plot line just different characters and different powers.
These are good examples, Adison. I like your observation of the "Starving Games." Parodies are huge forms of intertextuality, although it may be considered copying, it's more of a modification.
I didn't know that intertextuality would also be "someone takes someone else's work and make it into their own, they change it up so that way it won't be considered copying.". I like how you used this and I completely understand how you answered this. ~ Caleb C.
I liked how you included The Starving Games and The Hunger Games. The Starving Games is obviously a parody and it is interesting how the creators took the original idea and distorted it.
Intertextuality is the way in which different books, plays, movies, and television series are influenced by one another or resemble each other in a way.
My first example is the tv series “The Originals.” This is a series that was a branch out of “The Vampire Diaries.” It deal with a lot of the same characters and archetypes. Without have watching “The Vampire Diaries” first one would be highly confused when watching “The Originals.” Throughout both shows characters from each will appear on the other and it then also becomes hard to understand why this person is here and why they’re important without knowing about the other show.
My second example is the movie “A Cinderella Story.” This movie is similar to the Disney movie “Cinderella.” “A Cinderella Story” is like “Cinderella” in many ways, but has a more modern twist to it. It includes the evil stepmother and stepsisters who are in charge of watching over the protagonist, the protagonist who has to do unbelievable task for her stepmother and stepsisters, and a prince charming who she meets at a ball.
My third example is Pocahontas and Cinderella. In both movies the protagonist has a voice of wisdom in the spirit of a grandmother figure. Pocahontas has Grandmother Willow and Cinderella has her Fairy Godmother. They both help the princesses in their time of need and give their input from their years of experience. -Piper Colangelo
Intertextualiry means that no text is unique. Every idea is made from another. Even the smallest things are taken from another, such as vampires, tragic love stories, or the loss of a dog. Intertextuality can be subtle, or very obvious, which may or may not be purposeful. My first example, however, is clearly purposeful.
My first example is "Vampires Suck", which is a mockery of the famous book and movie series twilight. This movie contains the same plot of Twilight, just changing it slightly to make it humorous. This is an example of obvious intertextuality, even down to the characters themselves. The characters look extremely similar to the characters in Twilight.
The second example that I have noticed many similarities in is Charmed, and Supernatural. These two television series contain similar supernatural creatures, but told from different points. Charmed is a series about three witch sisters, and their battles against supernatural beings out to get them. Supernatural is a series about two brothers who hunt supernatural beings. The first big thing that made me make a connection between the two was a monster called a Wendigo, but there are also many other similarities such as demons, angels, witches, and vampires.
Lastly, I have noticed many similarities between Finding Nemo, and Supernatural. In the first few episodes of Supernatural Sam and Dean are on a mission to find their father, while in Finding Nemo Dori and Marvin are trying to find Nemo, Marvin's son. This is an example of subtle intertextuality. In Supernatural Sam and Dean have to get past all the obstacles to get to their dad, one being that he doesn't want to be found, and of course the monsters. In Finding Nemo the "monsters" are the sharks, and the humans who capture Nemo.
Posted by Maria McDonald: Intertexuality is the idea that more than one literary work can be based off the same idea. Literature grows out of other literature. As Thomas Foster says, "There's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature" (29) because when one idea is invented, others base their own stories on the idea. My first example is the Percy Jackson series. Nearly the whole idea of this series was based off previous ideas. Percy Jackson is a demigod, half human half god, who encounters many mythical creatures that are part of Greek mythology. The idea of Greek gods and mythology was not Rick Riordan's. Rick Riordan simply used those ideas and built upon them to create his own stories. Reading other stories such as The Odyssey and studying up on Greek mythology really helped me understand the Percy Jackson series. My second example is the TV series Supernatural which is about two hunter brothers that hunt supernatural things such as demons and angels, but also creatures that were invented before. The idea of vampires and werewolves are used in this series as well as creatures from legends such as Bloody Mary. My last example is the Disney movie "The Lion King." The Lion King was based Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and follows basically the same structure and story line. In both stories, the king is killed by the evil brother and the prince runs away for some time but comes back to take his rightful throne. Intertexuality is evident in all these examples because they are building upon previous ideas that already existed.
Intertextuality is the thought that there no work of literature is truly original because all works are related in some way.
The first example that I will be speaking of is between Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars. In both films, a young teenagers meet, and fall in love, however, in Paper Towns they don’t end up dating but in each of these films, at the end one of the teenagers are lost.
The second example that I will be speaking of is between Divergent and The Hunger Games. They are both stories about a young girl that stands out from the rest and has to fight for everything that she cares about and they both also lose somebody that they care about along the way.
The last example that I will be speaking of is between White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. In both films, a Secret Service agent tries to single-handedly defeat a gang of terrorists who have taken over the White House.
Elizabeth Suarez. Intertextuality is the idea that works are all based off of others. While reading a book or watching a movie, you might see or hear the mention of something you may have already read or watched. This is intertextuality.
My first example is going to be The Little Mermaid. In this movie, there is King Triton who is mentioned to be Posideons son. I used this as an example because there are many writings and movies/shows that speak of gods and Posideon.
My second example is from the book The Splendor Falls. There are mentions of Shakespearen times and writings in certain places in this book.
As my last example I am using the book The Dead-Tossed Waves. This book is based off of a zombie (or as they say 'Mudo') apocalypse. The zombie apocalypse is virtually everywhere nowadays.
Posted By: Anna K-S According to Google the definition of intertextuality is “the relationship between text, especially literary ones”. Intertextuality is when you can connect two or more text due to their similarities.
The first time I connected two texts was when I was watching “The Vampire Diaries” after watching “Twilight”, I realized that the people who made these books had the same ideas or after reading “How to Read Literature Like A Professor” borrowed the same ideas for their books which later became a TV series and a movie series. “Twilight” and “The Vampire Diaries” are similar in the fact that both series contains an old mysterious male vampire who is after a young girl, also both contain the concept of the vampire switching from human blood to animal blood to become a more humane vampire.
The next time I associated two texts with each other was with “Arrow” and “The Flash” along with many other superhero series these two are most related in the fact that in both series there is a superhero. “Arrow” and “The Flash” are also related in the facts that both superheros are male, they got their power or strength through an accident, and they both have to save their hometown from villains.
Lastly I linked the movie “Titanic” with the book “Letters From Rifka” by Karen Hesse. I was able to link “Titanic” and “Letters From Rifka” because both involve a young woman going on a journey on some type of transportation, in the movie “Titanic” it was a huge steamship and in the book “Letters From Rifka” it a train. Both the book and movie also involve the young woman falling in love but the guy she fell in love with end up dying, both women also endure many struggles on their journey but in the end they both make it to where they were headed.
Intertextuality means the relationships between texts. The idea suggests “new” texts aren’t well, new. Everything is based off of previous texts. Some examples of intertextuality are easy to spy, actually referencing other texts in it, while others you have to look around for it. My first example is John Green’s novel, Paper towns. In the book Margo references Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself a lot and Quentin uses it as clues to find where Margo went. I think this shows that the main characters are highly intelligent with not only being able to quote and understand the poem, but to also be able to use it to reveal or find out where Margo is. My second example is A Cinderella story, this is also easy to tell. It has the same characteristics of the Disney Cinderella. There is a girl, her dad has died leaving her with a evil step mom and step-sisters. She has a fairy godmother, in this case Sam who helps her got the ball, more modern being a school dance. The girl goes in a secret identity and meets the prince and he falls in love with her. However, the girl leaves at midnight because if not originally she will turn back into her old self, in this case her stepmom will find out that she has gone to the ball. Of course the girl eaves something behind that the price finds once a glass slipper, in this case her music. So then the prince goes all over seein whose shoe or music it is so he can find his princess. In the end they get together the stepmom is left powerless and the prince and princess leave together on a horse, or nice car. You can find many spin offs of cinderella like, Ever After, What a girl wants, Another Cinderella Story, Ella Enchanted, and many more. My final example is The Darkest Minds, there are many novels with corrupt societies and governments trying to kill off people like The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. The people in these novels all have some sort of uniform or code of some sorts to differentiate them. The Darkest Minds uses colors to show different powers and danger levels.Orange is the most rare and dangerous, they can control minds, infuence people’s actions,and change or delete others memories. Divergent has different names to show what they do or stand for. The dauntless group (literally meaning lacking fear and being brave) were the group who had little fears and did crazy things like jump off bridges and perform acts of violence if necessary. The Hunger Games was sorted by districts numbered 1 through 14. The districts were known for what they contributed to the society. For example District 13 were known for coal, which is why Pita and Katniss came in looking like coals on fire in the game.
The definition of Intertextuality is the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.
1. An example of this would be the Percy Jackson series and the Harry Potter series. Both of them has a main character that is a male and a girl who seems to know everything. Both of the main characters have a best friend and an old wise adviser. Also both of the main character ending up saving the day.
2. My next example would be Cinderella and Rapunzel. Both girls have an evil woman in their life controlling them and both of them were beautiful. In the end, both of the girls were save by prince charming and live happily ever after.
3. The last example would be the "West Side Story". The movie was based off of Romeo and Juliet but instead of the Capulet and Montague family, it is the Sharks and Jets. Both of them have a star crossed lover.
Intertextuality is the onoing intertaction between poems or stories; the relationship they have, something in common to enhance another piece of work. This happens a lot in Romance. Two pieces of romance works would be If I Stay and The Vow. If I stay is about a girl who loves to play orchestra music and listen to it. She meets this boy who is into punk music and is in a punk band. The two fall for each other and while it is snowing, she gets into a wreck that kills her brother, mother, and father. She is left in a come but still alive. Her loved ones stand by her side and wait for her to wake up. In The Vow, it starts off with a couple who is leaving a movie theater at night, and while at a red light, the girl decides to get frisky and ends up distracting the boy, failing to notice the snow plow that ends up ramming into the back of the car, and sending it forward. The girl ends up getting thrown out the window and wakes up with Amnesia. She doesn't remember what has happened in last couple years, like marrying her husband and the reason why she doesn't talk to her parents anymore. These two movies seem different but are actually somewhat similar. Both women get into a car wreck and have their family sit back and watch as they fight to regain what was once theirs.
I love your examples! I love both If I Stay and The Vow, I never thought of how similar they both are. Guess that's why I like them. I also like your definition of Intertextuality
Intertextuality is the literary practice of linking the current work back to another work to make a connection.
One example of this is the books in the Percy Jackson series. This is pretty obvious because it takes direct influence from Greek Mythology, but having read a lot about Greek Mythology, I knew a good amount of what was happening in the more confusing parts of the series.
Video games also use intertextuality. Many games are original in some way or another, but most take at least one idea or concept from previous games, whether it is a similar plot point or just a similar game mechanic, they all have some form of intertextuality. One particular example of this is in the genre of RPGs or Role-Playing Games. All of the RPGs that I have encountered involve doing menial tasks for random strangers for a small reward and some experience points which are then used to level up. When you level up you can upgrade yourself so that you can do these menial tasks more efficiently and help more random people. This is pretty much the general idea of all RPGs and when playing different ones, this consistency is an example of intertextuality.
Another example is in the book The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. In the book, Edmond, one of the four protagonists, betrays his savior figure, Aslan. This is very similar to the way that Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus in the New Testament.
I love the Percy Jackson series even though I haven't read them. I just watched the movies. I like how you connected Greek mythology into it. -Kalynne H.
Intertextuality is the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. It is dialogue between old and new texts. In other words the writer is using one text to create a meaning for another text. The intertextuality makes the meaning of the text or dialogue have a deeper meaning. My first example is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. While reading and watching The Chronicles of Narnia, I started to make connections with the Bible. Aslan is the lion in the story that chooses to die for Narnia but he comes back. The Queen of Narnia or the White Witch represents the devil. She manipulates Edmund and takes him. The story makes you think of the Bible and how Jesus Christ put his life on the line for all of us. My second example is September the 11th. I know it was a devastating day but after that day, movies and books were written about it. One movie I know is Remember Me with Robert Pattinson in it. It is one of my favorites. The movie was based on the book written by Madeleine Wickham and it makes you think a whole lot more about that day and what it meant to everyone. In the movie Tyler is kind of a bad kid who looks after his little sister while his dad is all the time working. Tyler is furious with him because his sister thinks their dad doesn't love her. Throughout the movie, Tyler falls in love with the head of police's daughter and at the end of the movie, Tyler is waiting for his dad in the towers where he worked. That is when everything happened. My third example is the Old and New Testament. The New Testament references the Old testament giving it deeper meaning because it quotes the Old Testament such as Deuteronomy and Exodus.
Intertextuality is when two plots are of different series are related to each other in some aspect.
One example is of Megamind and Despicable Me. Both movies are about a villain who is slowly becoming tired of being a villain, then being converted into a hero and having to stop a their own villain at the end of the movie.
A second example is Jumanji and Zathura. Someone stumbles upon an old board game and decides to play with someone. All of the events in the board game happen in real life too, some of which being very deadly. The only way to end these dangerous events is for a player to win the game.
The Avengers 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy. Both are in the same universe and are about a team of heroes who band together to stop an evil villain from destroying a city full of innocents by using the power of one of the infinity stones.
By: Parth Intertextuality is when all modern day work have some roots to previously published work. Or that no piece of work is original and that it had something it can be traced back to.
My first example are superheroes. Every superhero story is something along the line of that a person acquired super human abilities or have tons of money. The use their newfound power or suit into protect their city from those who are evil. Some common examples are: The Dark Knight, Spiderman, Ironman, and Superman.
My second example are very old cartoons. The starting cartoon for mickey mouse " Steamboat Willie" was based off of a movie from the 1920's named " Steamboat Bill."
My last example is " The Phantom Of The Opera" to an episode of Scooby-doo.It may seem odd but I thought that there could not be a more clear connection. In it they copy the nature of the phantom into a creature that haunts the theatre. They are both tortured souls who have lost something but instead of being a kind person in the end it was actually a robber who wanted to steal all the kingdoms diamonds.
Intertextuality is the influence of one piece of literature on another piece of literature. One example is the influence of “The Odyssey” on the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou”. In the beginning of O Brother Where Art Thou there is even a quote from The Odyssey, definitely showing the intertextuality. The main characters in O Brother Where Art Thou face some of the same trails, although they are altered to fit the setting, the most common being the Cyclops in The Odyssey being compared to the one eyed con man in O Brother Where Art Thou Another example is the influence of “The Odyssey” on the Spongebob Squarepants Movie. In the movie, Spongebob must battle a cyclops, get help from a magical female character, and is given a magical bag of winds, all mirroring the Odyssey. Mindy the Mermaid is mirrors Athena, The Diver mirrors the Cyclops, and the same bag of winds occur in both pieces of literature. One of the greatest examples of intertextuality is Shrek. Shrek encompasses many references from many fairy tales such as Pinocchio, The Big Bad Wolf, etc. Shrek is essentially a backwards fairytale, so it mirrors the traditional fairytale ideal.
Intertexuality is the idea that works of literature or films are connected and that they are all based on previous works. A great example of intertexuality is Scary Movie because it is a parody of various horror films. It also uses the typical plot that appears in other movies.
Another example of intertexuality is the film, 10 Things I Hate About You. It is based on William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”. In both versions the main character is represented as difficult and brazen.
The television series, Once Upon a Time is based off of classic fairy tales like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Little Red Riding Hood.
I like your explanation of intertexuality because it is short and easy to understand. I also like your examples because they are shows and plays almost everyone can relate to. anna k-s
Intertextuality. It's like using another person's text to support the meaning of your own. It reminds me a lot of plagiarism, just like how the book says. The things I associate intertextuality with are The Cinderella stories. They all have the same plot.
Servant girl wants to go to the ball, she goes and dances with the prince, clock strikes (whether it be a phone or an actual clock), forgets something, the prince finds it and goes on a hunt for the mystery girl and eventually finds her. For all of these stories, they're the same, but they're different. In the Hilary Duff version, there is the evil stepmother and stepsisters, she works for them in the diner, there's a dance, Sam (Hilary's character)can't go, but goes anyway, shes masked and meets her prince, but right when shes about to reveal her identity, she gets a call and has to leave, but she forgets her phone, the "prince" (Quarterback on the school football team)goes looking for her, but everyone claims to be her, but then he finds the real girl and then happily ever after. It's the exact same with the other movies, just a slight tweak in plot, characters, and setting of the movies.
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text to another text. My examples are all the ER medical shows. There are many differant medical shows out there but they all seem to connect to one thing. That is the fast pace of the hospital and ER. For example Untold Stories of the ER, in this tv series they show many differet ER situations and what they need to do in order to help the patient. Another show like this would be Grey's Anatomy, in Grey's Anatomy it takes place in Settle mainly in Settle Grace Hospital. It is a learning hospital so they have interns and the residents of the hospital must teach to interns how to help the patients. They treat different types of emergency accidents including surgeries. The last example would be Private Practice which is connected to Grey's Anatomy. Addison Montgomery a neonatal surgeon leaves Seattle Grace and goes to takeover her recently divorced friends private practice in LA. She goes and helps the patients there dealing with the neonatal patients.
Intertextuality is the connection between every book and movie, it is the idea that all literary works are taken from others. With these connections it can ease an understanding of a work, when you can gather information from one work and translate that into the other work.
The first work that showed intertextuality is the Marvel Comics Universe. Most people have seen an Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and etc. movie before, within those movies a group is shown but usually of those members can have their own comic series which occasionally reflect or feature other comic book characters from other series. In the Marvel Universe, Captain America was the first Avenger and later in Hulk comics the reason the Hulk was created was through a failed attempt to recreate the Captains serum, which turned him into the superhero. In numerous comic books, Spider-Man joins the Avengers. All the comics and movies interconnect with each other within the Marvel Comics Universe.
The second work is the book Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (J.K. Rowling), this book is a spin-off of the original series Harry Potter. The characters aren’t the same but with prior knowledge of Harry Potter the idea of what the movie and book will be like is very real. The book and movie will also have beasts that were shown during the Harry Potter series, like acromantula and hippogriffs.
A third work is the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, throughout the movie there are many things pulled from “Taming of the Shrew” and Shakespeare. Knowing the story of the shrew would let you understand most of what is happening in the movie.
A word meaning not original or a remix is Intertextuality. Intertextuality can help make an connection with something in literature. For example everybody know who Cinderella is but do we know the real story? Disney shows the two mean sisters as just stuffing their foots in but in the original version it states that the sisters actually cut their heels and toes to fit their feet in bt are discover over the blood trail they were leaving in contrary to the glass shoe flying off her foot. Another great example is “A Haunted house”. The movie is based off the the very well know movie series “Paranormal activity”. Everything in this film is completely different from the original but there very obvious clues that make is noticeable were the iead came from. My last and final example is “Antes Muerta que Lechita” it’s a hispanic show that even though the producers deny it, is based off of “La fea mas Bella” in the english speaking community it would be ugly betty. Both are extremely similar but thanks to intertextuality everybody picked up the clues that point us to the idea that the show was based off “La Fea mas Bella”. - Stephanie Martinez
My definition of intertextuality is the broken down with stems. So inter- is within so put it together and it would be meaning within the text. Three examples where the text has helped me figure out the meaning of a word is in… 1. In the book “Holes” by Louis Sachar I ran into the word canteen (this was before I started camping) so I continued reading and the surrounding text 2. Also in the one Harry Potter book I read there was many words that I had to look at the text surrounding the word to understand the one word 3. The final book I remember having to read around to find the meaning of the word was “A Walk for Sunshine” where I was not completely sure on some of the terminology used.
Intertextuality is the relationships and similarities that you can find between different works of literature. The first example of this helping me in understanding literature is when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis. When I read this book for the second time I recognized the similarities between it and “The Old Testament.” In Lewis’ book you find that the character Edmund betrays his savior and leader, Aslan, and subsequently suffers for his actions. His siblings and friends do not trust him any more and he is at the mercy of the White Queen. In order to save Edmund, Aslan, the mirror of Jesus, sacrifices himself to the White Queen. Aslan is killed on the stone table, but later rises to return to his people and help fight in the war. This helped me to understand just how important Aslan’s sacrifice was for Narnia. The Second example is “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” and its similarity to “The Lord of the Rings.” Both books have a main character that is thrown into this adventure with a clear physical goal. Retrieve the bolt and destroy the ring respectively. Each main character is partly drawn into the story because of who their ancestors are and what they did. They have to learn new skills and traverse unfamiliar terrain in order to succeed. This similarity makes me appreciate the basic backbone that gives every story depth. Lastly, I see obvious intertextuality between BBC’s “Sherlock” and the original Sherlock Holmes books. I will primarily talk about “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and its similarity to the 21st Century adaptation by Mark Gatiss, called “The Hound of Baskerville.” The original book is the story of the Baskervilles and the monstrous hound that people there claim to see. In the original the hound is actually the pet of a local painted with glow-in-the-dark paint, while in the adaptation the hound is a hallucination brought on by a gas created at the local government research facility. The adaptation has a nod to the original story when they mention a little girl’s missing bunny and later that bunny is seen glowing as if covered in phosphorescent paint. The similarity and yet originality of the BBC version helps me to appreciate the work and creativity that is put into the show to make it their own.
Intertextuality is the relationship or how a text relates to other types of text, movies, novels or stories. The All star comic books created a league of superheroes called Justice Society of America which published in 1940. Twenty years later DC Comic Books published one of the most well known superhero leagues in the 21th century called the League of Justice. The League of Justice is composed of different superheroes same have similar to the superheros from Justice Society of America. In 1963, Marvel publish a comic book called The Avengers this comic book seems to have been based on the League of Justice. All three of this example have a similar plot in which a town or city is in danger because of a evil villain and a superhero goes out and protect the civilians. In all this comic book the hero's use similar words and phrases about freedom.
Intertextuality- The idea that no single piece of literature is original rather that is has been derived from other pieces of literature.
American Idol (2002) and The Voice(2011)
Two very popular American television shows are very similar. On American Idol people go and audition for a spot on the show to hopefully win and get a record deal. The voice works the exact same way. This helps the viewer understand the purpose of the show without having to watch an entire season.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story(2008) and The Fault in Our Stars(2012)
It’s Kind of a Funny Story is about a teenage boy who has depression and spends a lot of time with his therapist hoping to get better.One night Craig couldn’t do it anymore and he decided to commit suicide. However, before he jumped off a bridge, he called the suicide hotline and they convinced him to check himself in at a hospital instead. While at the hospital Craig meets a girl and spends all of his time figuring out how to make her his girlfriend. The fault in our stars can be connected to this novel by saying that instead of having depression Hazel had cancer. Although she didn’t go the therapist, she did go to a support group and while there she met a boy who she wanted to be in a relationship with. Although I did read TFIOS first, it helped me make connections to It’s Kind of a Funny Story because the plot lines were very similar and the characters faced many of the same challenges throughout the stories.
Family Guy(1999) and the Simpsons(1989)
Both of these television shows have the same concept. Both shows have animated families that do everything like normal. Watching one show will help you understand who does what in the other show.
Riley Kiefer Intertextuality is the relationship between texts. The relationship can be with movies or books and are generally connected through previous works or archetypes. Three examples of intertextuality for me are Friday Night Lights (A TV show), Million-Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica, and Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally. In all of these works, there is one common thing, Football and a challenge that the main character must face. I know that football star is not an archetypes, however, a hero is one. In each of these works, there is a hero. In Friday Night Lights Jason Street and Matt Saracen are the two main heros. Jason must overcome his injury and learn to do day-to-day tasks while being paralyzed from the waist down. Matt must learn how to be a good leader and quarterback, along with dealing with issues from other people and at home. In Million-Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica, Nate Brodie get the chance of a lifetime, he could win a million dollars by throwing a football throw a target-zone at a Patriots game. This money could really help out his family because his father just lost his job and they are about to lose their house. Also, his best friend Abby is slowly going blind and his arm begins to fail him. Matt must work through these obstacles in order to try to win for his family. In Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally, Jordan Woods is the quarterback and captain of her high school football team. Everyone rags on her because she is a girl play a “man’s” sport. She has had to prove herself on and off the field multiple times. When the new guy, Ty Green, comes around and wants her position, things change all together. Jordan finds herself liking Ty and is having problems with herself and the team. Plus Ty has a secret that only Jordan’s best friend Sam Henry knows about. In each of these stories, the main characters have to overcome challenges and that is what makes them heroes. What linked these stories together for me initially were that they are about a sport that I fully understand and love, but as they went on, I understood more things about the stories and linked them together in more ways than one.
Intertextuality: the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
1. The Boondocks and The Black Panther
The TV show "The Boondocks" has constant references to stories about celebrities or things that go on in the media. One of the main character's is Huey who is named after a Black Panther Leader. He is very outspoken when it comes to his Pro-Black views.
2. Hunger Games and Divergent
Both book series have a strong female lead, who lives in a distopian future. She must beat the odds.
3. Roots and 12 years a slave
In my opinion most slave movies contain the same message and situations, these two movies show that. The trail that each character goes through.
Intertextuality is when something is related or seems related to another thing. In a way it can be seen as a parody or a remix. People feed off others ideas or a general idea to make something as their own. My first example could be the 2012. This movie was seen to be about the world ending and falling apart. There are so many movies that have to do with a similar plot or idea like San Andreas, Armageddon, or even The Core. All of these movies have to do with the world ending or something of that sort. The second example is The Weeknd. His voice is very too much similar to Michael Jackson’s voice and the form of some of his music is like it too. He had fed off some of his ideas when he realized their voices were similar and even tried having some of the same dance moves. Lastly, any boy band to exist can be seen as intertextuality. They all have similar music, similar wardrobe, and even similar dance movements and poses. All boy bands have something in common and that’s why there is no in between when talking about loving or hating boy bands.
Intertextuality, the definition makes everything new seem to be a Parody or knockoff of one or more things that have came to be that were also knockoffs of things before them. In a sense eventually it will turn into a paradox that will rule everything debated irrelevant and cause confusion in many ways. Intertextuality means that a work of literature is never unique, and that some events in history were because of some of the works in literature such as the Vietcong tunnels and alice in wonder land, also it makes every new piece of literature a parody of something that had come before it and the thing the was before it was a parody as well, also it makes every event in a piece of literature a grand scheme of references to a movie or some of work of literature, since this can be used for historical events my first example will be how Adolf Hitler used the same tactics plus his own addition to the conquering style of Napoleon, who used the same tactics as Alexander the Great who in turn used the same tactics as Kublai Khan who used the same methods as his father Genghis Khan. Also my second example will be how the Vietcong used tunnels like soldiers in WWI used and how it was a idea used from Alice In Wonderland. Now for the final example, in the Naruto Anime and Manga they use Ninjutus and Martial Arts to defeat enemies, which is also how you use ninjutu in all of the Ninja Gaiden games, which was referenced from ancient Japanese scrolls that told about Ninjas using Jutsus to easily defeat their enemies and assassinate their targets with ease. Also even though I have done a good job at explaining this it still makes people and myself get confused and have headaches.
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ReplyDeleteIntertexuality is the idea that all new written texts aren't actually "new." They are all based on previous works or real life occurances. One example of intertextuality is most modern MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). A majority of them involve you playing a character you created, and you run around killing things and doing quests. Most MMORPGs follow the same concepts, with very few things differentiating each other. For example, some may be fantasy with swords and magic; others may be modernized with guns. Another example is movies, TV shows, anime, and so on. Movies relating to superheroes is the biggest example. A majority of them involve a person with superhuman powers protecting the world from evil. Superman, Fantastic 4, Spiderman, all of these apply to this. Another example I can think of is when an author writes multiple book series. When I think of this case, I think of Erin Hunter, who is the author of the Warriors cat series, which is my favorite series. She also writes similar series; one involving bears, one involving dogs, and probably more. These all have similar ideas of personifying animals into clans and focusing on their lives.
A lot of games and MMOs seem to share a similar premise, but they seem the same to play. Stories and controls are often reused over and over to relate to what is popular.
DeleteGood examples, also interesting definition.
DeleteYou made good use of a variety of your provided examples in this.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is basically saying that everything is a remix. Nothing was created without the help or assistance from something that existed beforehand. When I think about this I immediately think about how similar a lot of music is. For example Shania Twain's 'C'est la Vie!' is somewhat similar in my opinion to ABBA's 'Dancing Queen'. Another thing I thought of was different versions of the same movie like 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Snow White and The Huntsman' because they are both Snow White movies, but with a little tiny difference. My third thing that helps me explain it would have to be clothing because if someone creates something a lot of people like many different versions of it are created afterwards.
I love your use of songs in the post, Hannah. Both of these songs are two of my favorites. Also, interesting definition of Intertextuality.
DeleteI have never noticed this. Interesting observation.
DeleteInteresting point of view.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the idea that many works of literature, or movies, are connected, or similar. They feed off of each other in order to enhance their own work. Now, we all know of the good old love story. As much as I love reading and watching these unrealistic novels and movies, I never realized how similar they all are. If we think about it, many of the most successful romantic movies or novels are the same thing, but because they are almost always bound to be successful, directors and authors use almost similar plots, just different characters and settings. Let’s start by talking about two of the most successful romantic movies, one of them being originally a novel by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook and Titanic. In The Notebook, the main characters are Noah and Allie who meet in a small town in North Carolina. They fall in love, but the mother doesn’t approve of them because Noah is poor and he doesn’t live up to what her mother wants for her. In your basic movie/novel there’s always a guy who the mother approves of and who the mother wants her daughter to marry. In The Notebook his name is Lon. Now, in Titanic, the main characters are Jack and Rose who meet on board of the RMS Titanic. They fall in love, but again Rose’s mother doesn’t approve of Jack because he is poor and isn’t what she wants for Rose. The man who Rose’s mother does approve of in Titanic is Cal. Later on a sequel to The Notebook was written, titled The Wedding. It centers around one of Noah and Allie’s daughters and her husband. As you can see, many works of literature center around each other. As I stated before, they all tend to feed of from each other, so we’re all watching and reading the same story.
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DeleteNice example of intertextuality and before I started thinking about this I never realized how similar everything is to one another. It's incredible to think that everything invented got there ideas from another source.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the relationship between different literary works. Stories use and recycle ideas from previous stories, it is inevitable. When this happens, it is known as intertextuality. So if you have ever read a book or watched a film and recognized an idea practiced in another form of literature, you’ve experienced intertextuality. Below are three examples of intertextuality that I have witnessed.
1. In the Broadway play, “Mamma Mia” the storyline of the play coincides with different songs from the popular band ABBA. Recognizing this connection between different works allows the viewer to better understand both the play and the different songs represented in the musical. With previously knowing the songs of ABBA, one can better understand the storyline and underlying messages portrayed in the musical “Mamma Mia.”
2. In the novel “Paper Towns” by John Green, a young woman named Margo decides to leave town without saying goodbye to anyone, especially her neighbor, Quentin who had just shared an very memorable experience with Margo the night before her disappearance. However, Margo leaves clues for Quentin so that he can find her. One of these clues is centered around Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Having read and interpreted the poem, readers can better understand why Margo left that as a clue for Quentin and more of the underlying ideas behind “Paper Towns.”
3. Lastly, in the novel and film adaptation, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” the protagonist, Charlie, and his friends, Sam and Patrick all really enjoy the music of the band The Smiths. Particularly one song known as “Asleep” is mentioned many times throughout both the novel and the movie. This song is very important in describing the emotional state of many of the characters, especially Charlie. Knowing that “Asleep” is a song about suicide and coming to terms with ending life allows readers to better understand just how troubled these teenagers have been and how far they have come.
When reading "Paper Towns" I actually looked up the poem and it helped my better understand why Margo left the poem.
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I love all of your examples.
DeleteThese were all wonderful examples of intersexuality and the main one I picked up on was "Paper Towns." I saw that when reading the book and it's true that the book is better understood when you know the poem.
DeleteI really liked the Mamma Mia example.
DeleteYou have great examples! I really love Mamma Mia.
DeleteAll of your examples are fantastic!
DeleteI love all of your examples, especially Perks of Being a Wallflower. I think it is one of the books that everyone should read before they go to college.
DeleteIntertexuality is known as the idea that no work of literature is completely original. Everything you read will have ideas taken from other works. Everything is intertwined in some way, whether it be from the Bible, from childrens stories, or from old legends passed down through the generations.
ReplyDeleteAn example of this is The Hunger Games. This series of novels comes up with a new way to creat a corrupted society. There are plenty of other novels which contain a corrupted society, such as Divergent, or Matched. These novels all have a different spin on the same concept. The government is terrible, and some person or group of people rebels against the government and saves the day.
Another Example that I feel relates to this would be The Walking Dead. This is a popular show on television that includes zombies and a group of survivors. How familiar does that sound? There are so many movies and television shows where zombies take over the world and a group of survivors is left to fend for themselves. As it goes on, some people die, and the group dwindles, then grows when new people come in. There are many things just like this, such as WWZ and Znation.
My last example is Cinderella. Many, many versions of this classic story have come about since it was created and there are endless spinoffs, but they all follow the same story. A girl is mistreated, then a prince saves the day and marries her. Sounds like all the other princess stories as well. Snow white, Sleeping Beauty, And Beauty And The Beast are all similar examples of this. The only difference is that Belle is actually saving her captor from himself in Beauty And The Beast. Other than that, all of these princess stories, includiung Cinderella are basically just spun off from eachother.
Those are all great examples of intertextuality and I agree that they are very similar; especially the comparison of 'The Hunger Games' and 'Divergent'.
DeleteI love The Walking Dead! I liked your ideas, they were very interesting.
DeleteI never thought of comparing Hunger Games to something like Divergent, but the comparison now makes sense to me. I already knew the one about Cinderella, but I never thought about zombie movies or TV shows like that; probably because I'm just too much of a scaredy cat to watch those.
DeleteYour given examples are well explained and connected.
DeleteWalking Dead is the best, even though it is becoming an over used genre. When I read Divergent for Mr. Paul's class I thought it was a lot like Hunger Games too.
DeleteIntertextuality - The interactive connection between pieces of literature formed as a result of newer pieces of literature deriving their styles and literary patterns from older works. Intertextuality connects to what is popular synonymously, so as to keep literary styles from becoming t0o spread out during one time period. Antonymous connections of intertextuality to what is popular keep produced literature varied by providing different styles than what is most popular.
ReplyDeleteDiscuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows & The Tails of Beedle the Bard are two books that are closely connected. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, a book comes up called The Tails of Beetle the Bard and because I was given a copy of that book, I could more easily understand Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows because I had something that I had that was seperate from the book.
The Brotherband Chronicles is a companion series to the Ranger’s Apprentice series. Connections between the two are made because the Brotherband Chronicles are based afeter a certain character in ther Ranger’s Apprentice series.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians & The Heroes of Olympus
These two series tie into each other because the The Heroes of Olympus series is a fequal series to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. In order to understand predispositions of certain characters, as well as the overall idea of what is going on, it is advisable to read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series befor e The Heroes of Olympus series.
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DeleteIntertextuality - Ideas connected simultaneous to other referred works from the past where the newer ideas have risen from and ideas from the past have been risen from other ideas as well.
ReplyDeleteA great example would be Cinderalla and I was not directly told about this until seventh grade. My language arts teacher kept giving us examples of other cinderella stories and we simply thought it was just lies but it was actually many ideas derived from one single piece and I eventually researched to find it was originally from China. It is amazing how ideas are borrowed and completely redesigned into a different form but still the same idea.
Star Trek would be a great example since it was so amazing and unthinkable in its time and this extended out to something else called Star Wars which was obviously derived from this series but did have its own different aspects compared to Star Trek. Star Trek was a new idea in its era that created many more series such as Space Balls which made fun of Star Wars.
Poltergeist is a book published in 1982 and in that same year a movie was derived from it. Eventually a horror film came out in 1986 with the same characteristics of Poltergeist except it's story line was different but it's creation was derived from Poltergeist with levitating objects and abnormal activities happening in a house.
While I don't believe that Star Wars was derived from Star Trek, I do like all of your other points.
DeleteStar Trek and Star Wars do share many similarities and differences. Star Trek sparked a new idea in it's era that Star Wars may have used. However, they took a new spin on the idea.
DeleteYour point does actually make sense. I understand what you're saying by the idea that Star Wars derived from Star Trek. Star Trek came out in 1966, while Star Wars came out in 1977, so it is possible that Star Wars had some inspiration from Star Trek.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the dialogue between old texts and new texts; the ongoing interaction between poems or stories.
1) In a popular television series, "Hawaii Five-0," there was a dedication episode to Pearl Harbor. In this episode, an elderly Japanese man tells his story living on the concentration camps and the things he and his family went through. Watching this episode, and knowing about the events that happened before, after, and during Pearl Harbor really help viewers to comprehend what it was like.
2) In the movie, "The Best of Me," Dawson Cole is killed and just happens to be an organ donor. Amanda, his high school love, had a son who desperately needed a heart transplant. When he got his transplant, Amanda had no idea that it was Dawson's heart, but eventually she found out. To some viewers, this could remind them to a situation of someone in their life who needs a transplant, or someone in their life who is an organ donor, whose organs are going to help someone. This reminds me of a man I know, "Red" is his nickname and he needed a kidney very bad and was dialysis for a very long time. He finally got his kidney, and it made his family and all his friends very happy.
3) My last example is the movie "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas." Most everyone knows that this movie takes place during World War II and is mainly set around the Jews and the concentration camps. When people see this movie, they typically think of the holocaust and how all the Jews were killed by Hitler and his men.
I love Hawaii Five-0 and I think that this show is a good example of intertextuality.
DeleteHawaii Five-0 is hands down the best example ever.
DeleteI am seriously going to watch Hawaii Five-O, it sounds really cool.
DeleteThe idea that all ideas in literature are just being recycled over and over again is intertextuality. It is often said that there are no more original ideas, rather people just include their own take on someone else's previous rendition of a work whether they are aware of its existence or not. For every movie and book there was a predecessor that played its hand a bit different.
ReplyDeleteMy first oddball example is comparing the novel "The Hiding Place" to "E.T. : The Extra Terrestrial". What these to have in common is a basic plot. There is someone who needs a place to hide and survive, but there are people searching for them that will put the foster family in danger. Both families protect them and are eventually caught, but make it out with good endings after some tragedies.
Two books that I read as a child were "Where the Red Ferns Grows" and "Kensuke's Kingdom". These two novels hold the scenario of a young boy eventually having to leave a place they hold dear to them while leaving behind friends that will never be seen again. Kensuke, a crazy old man who lives on an island with a family of arangatangs, refuses to leave his domain and the dogs in "where the red ferns Grow" will only be happy if left in the country. In both cases the boy leaves behind his friends so that they will stay happy where they choose to reside.
For my final example, I want to compare "The Fifth Wave" with "Finding Nemo". Both scenario place an older worried family member in search of a child whose whereabouts are unknown to them yet disclosed to the audience. Through trials, tribulations, and new friends, the worried family locate and rescue the children. The children are both reunited with their family and the stories end happily.
Thats true that ideas are just recycled in literature and reused in pieces of literature. Your examples make since and I can understand them completely good job.
DeleteI never realized how "where the red fern grow" and "Kensuke's Kingdom" are similar until you mention it but I like your examples.
DeleteDefine intertextuality. Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.
ReplyDeleteintertextuality - the relationship between texts, especially literary ones, (such as poems, novels, stories, etc...). In other words, people write literature, and other people use, and add to the first work.
1. My first example is "Once Upon A Time", the Television series on the ABC channel. This T.V. show is a spin off of all the Disney princess movies, and the original Disney characters, like Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio, etc... The show also has a character not from Disney, Rumpelstiltskin. This show follows the true story with a twist of its own. Weather it be form the deaths, to the love at first sight, the show uses the stories to help with their own stories.
2. My next example would be every Harry Potter movie and/or book, by J. K. Rowling. No these books are not exactly like the example, but it does resemble it. In the books Harry goes on a different adventure and the books corresponds with each other. How? They follow each other: where one stops the other picks right back up.
3. My final example is Cinderella by Brothers Grimm, Giambattista Basile published in the year 1925. This story has not 3 or 4 different stories or movies, but so many that you could imagine. This story has a girl named Cinderella who has a evil step mother and two evil step sisters that are jealous of her because she has everything that she ever wanted. The evil step mother puts Cinderella in the attic as the slave, and through it all Cinderella keeps a kind heart to her evil step mother, and her two evil step sisters. The night of the ball she arrives in a gown that is the most beautiful and the prince falls head over heels. When she loses her slipper, the prince tries everything to find her, and when he does they live happily ever after. This story has many spin offs like "Another Cinderella Story", or "Cinderella" by Disney, but though out them all that keep the same story line that the first story had.
Nice examples and its good that you used stories that everyone could understand right on the spot. You explained it in detail and told me some things I did not see in the story even after I read it. Good job and I have no complaints.
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DeleteIntertextuality is when a literary work is linked back to another writing, poem or other literary device to make a connection.
ReplyDeleteFirst, an example of intertextuality would be The Wizard of Oz and the story Wicked. The Wizard of Oz was the inspiration for the novel Wicked, which tells the story of how The Wicked Witch of the West came to be.
Second, the popular movie 10 Things I Hate about you is another example. The storyline of the movie is based from William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
Third, the movie Shrek is full of intertextuality. One example of intertextuality in Shrek would be the Three Blind Mice.
While reading this chapter I never thought of Shrek! Clever interpretation of that and 10 Things I Hate About You.
DeleteI myself have seen Wicked and it does explain the wicked witch and how she came to be, great analysts on this!! ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI love "Wicked" and see how knowing the "Wizard of Oz" has helped me better understand "Wicked."
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These are great points. I like how it was short and to the point.
DeleteDo this blog I would had never thought of using Shrek until now. Great job!
DeleteDo this blog I would had never thought of using Shrek until now. Great job!
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the central idea that no one work is completely original and separate from another, and that every work of literature is connected or linked to another work of literature in some form, shape or way.
The first example of intertextuality I think of is "Twilight" and "The Vampire Diaries." The storyline of these two novels revolves around two supernatural beings (vampires and werewolves), fighting against each other for the love of one human girl, who eventually turns into a vampire.
The second example of intertextuality that comes to mind is "The Lying Game" and "Pretty Little Liars," both written by the author, Sara Shepard. Although these two books are similar, their plot wraps around a girl who is missing, and the friends of this missing girl receive notes and texts that reveal that their missing (and reportedly dead) friend is alive after all. Also, in both of these stories, the missing girl has an identical twin sister. It seems like this author just ran out of ideas.
And the last example of intertextuality I am aware of goes between the two stories "Beastly" and "Beauty and the Beast." In both of these stories (and movies), there is a beautiful girl who happens to fall in love with a grotesque, disgusting beast. The two men in these stories were transformed into beasts due to their arrogant and ignorant nature of loving themselves for how they looked. Both men were destined to find someone to love them, and upon this happening, they would be transformed into the handsome people they were once before.
Seems like a lot of literature that share ideas also share similar titles.
DeleteThe idea of intertextuality states that literature is not completely original and is linked to other existing stories or real life events. This is true with all pieces of literature because when an author writes a story, they are influenced by other stories they have heard. One can see intertextuality by observing patterns and recurrences in literature.
ReplyDeleteI have observed patterns between the two television shows, Grey’s Anatomy and Scrubs. The two television programs are about medical interns and their lives working in hospitals. While Grey’s Anatomy is more of a drama and Scrubs is a comedy, both follow the cohesive theme of lives as medical practitioners. Characters in both stories find love in the hospital as they work and take care of patients. The two do not follow the same story, however, they share many similarities.
The two films, Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent, both follow the same patterns. Both stories revolve around the popular story of Aurora as she is cursed by the evil Maleficent. The story of Maleficent uses aspects of the older film Sleeping Beauty to create a newer story with more depth. The film, Maleficent, provides the viewer of Maleficent’s backstory as it shows her with a heart and changes the idea of her being totally evil.
A popular theme I have noticed is the idea of a corrupt government. The two trilogies, Uglies and Divergent, are about a group of characters as they discover the truth and fight to make things right. Both stories have a government that brainwashes the people to think a certain way. However, there is always someone who does not fall under their spell. This is the one who turns into the savior, revolting against the government for justice.
I really liked your idea of the corrupt government and intertextuality. I enjoy both the "Uglies" and "Divergent."
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DeleteMaleficent and Sleeping Beauty are really great examples. I love how Maleficent uses intertextuality to completely change the story of sleeping beauty.
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ReplyDeleteIntersexuality is the idea that all works of literature (books, movies, songs, plays, etc.) are not written new. They have been created by the use of building, expanding, and changing other works of literature. Sometimes this connection is obvious and other times it is very subtle but the link is still there.
The novel Looking For Alaska by John Green is a wonderful example of intersexuality. The entire book has an underlying question that it is trying to answer throughout the story: “How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?” This is actually a quote from one of the main character’s, Alaska’s, favorite book, The General in His Labyrinth. This is a novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and to understand Looking For Alaska, you have to understand the underlying novel that it is build off of.
In Breaking Dawn Part II the movie, the ending is of a collage of a lot of Bella and Edward's most loving memories. The song that is playing behind these memories as they are on screen is “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri. The song really sets the mood for the entire scene because it truly wraps up their whole relationship and helps with the emotional end to the series.
In the song “1985” by Bowling For Soup, they reference a lot of other artists and movie stars within their music to get the point of the song across. People like Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Nirvana, and the band Whitesnake are all mentioned within the song as well as many more to get the idea of the song across to the listeners.
I never thought of the connection between Looking For Alaska and The General in His Labyrinth. Also, good song choice, 1985 is a fun song.
DeleteLooking For Alaska is one of my favorite books and I think you made a wonderful connection between the two.
DeleteNever thought about that in Looking for Alaska, great work!
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is when someone takes someone else's work and make it into their own, they change it up so that way it won't be considered copying. Many movies and tv show use intertextuality. Some of the movies also use this to make fun of other movies.
My first example is the “Starving Games”. The Starving Games is a movie that uses the same plot line as in the Hunger Games except they change the meaning of it. In the starving games, they make fun of the Hunger Games, they mock it.
My second example is “Elementary”. Elementary uses intertextuality by having the same cast as Sherlock Holmes. In this tv show they have a man playing sherlock, and of course his name was Sherlock,he played as a detective.
My last example is “Superman” and “Batman”. Both of these movies are basically the same. Both movies have a hero, a villain, and a damsel in distress. They both have the same plot line just different characters and different powers.
These are good examples, Adison. I like your observation of the "Starving Games." Parodies are huge forms of intertextuality, although it may be considered copying, it's more of a modification.
DeleteI didn't know that intertextuality would also be "someone takes someone else's work and make it into their own, they change it up so that way it won't be considered copying.". I like how you used this and I completely understand how you answered this. ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI find it weird how similar plots would use similar names like the "Starving Game" and "Hunger Game" but I still like your examples.
DeleteI liked how you included The Starving Games and The Hunger Games. The Starving Games is obviously a parody and it is interesting how the creators took the original idea and distorted it.
DeleteIntertextuality is the way in which different books, plays, movies, and television series are influenced by one another or resemble each other in a way.
ReplyDeleteMy first example is the tv series “The Originals.” This is a series that was a branch out of “The Vampire Diaries.” It deal with a lot of the same characters and archetypes. Without have watching “The Vampire Diaries” first one would be highly confused when watching “The Originals.” Throughout both shows characters from each will appear on the other and it then also becomes hard to understand why this person is here and why they’re important without knowing about the other show.
My second example is the movie “A Cinderella Story.” This movie is similar to the Disney movie “Cinderella.” “A Cinderella Story” is like “Cinderella” in many ways, but has a more modern twist to it. It includes the evil stepmother and stepsisters who are in charge of watching over the protagonist, the protagonist who has to do unbelievable task for her stepmother and stepsisters, and a prince charming who she meets at a ball.
My third example is Pocahontas and Cinderella. In both movies the protagonist has a voice of wisdom in the spirit of a grandmother figure. Pocahontas has Grandmother Willow and Cinderella has her Fairy Godmother. They both help the princesses in their time of need and give their input from their years of experience.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextualiry means that no text is unique. Every idea is made from another. Even the smallest things are taken from another, such as vampires, tragic love stories, or the loss of a dog. Intertextuality can be subtle, or very obvious, which may or may not be purposeful. My first example, however, is clearly purposeful.
My first example is "Vampires Suck", which is a mockery of the famous book and movie series twilight. This movie contains the same plot of Twilight, just changing it slightly to make it humorous. This is an example of obvious intertextuality, even down to the characters themselves. The characters look extremely similar to the characters in Twilight.
The second example that I have noticed many similarities in is Charmed, and Supernatural. These two television series contain similar supernatural creatures, but told from different points. Charmed is a series about three witch sisters, and their battles against supernatural beings out to get them. Supernatural is a series about two brothers who hunt supernatural beings. The first big thing that made me make a connection between the two was a monster called a Wendigo, but there are also many other similarities such as demons, angels, witches, and vampires.
Lastly, I have noticed many similarities between Finding Nemo, and Supernatural. In the first few episodes of Supernatural Sam and Dean are on a mission to find their father, while in Finding Nemo Dori and Marvin are trying to find Nemo, Marvin's son. This is an example of subtle intertextuality. In Supernatural Sam and Dean have to get past all the obstacles to get to their dad, one being that he doesn't want to be found, and of course the monsters. In Finding Nemo the "monsters" are the sharks, and the humans who capture Nemo.
I loved all your examples and how you were able to link all of them back.
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ReplyDeleteIntertexuality is the idea that more than one literary work can be based off the same idea. Literature grows out of other literature. As Thomas Foster says, "There's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature" (29) because when one idea is invented, others base their own stories on the idea.
My first example is the Percy Jackson series. Nearly the whole idea of this series was based off previous ideas. Percy Jackson is a demigod, half human half god, who encounters many mythical creatures that are part of Greek mythology. The idea of Greek gods and mythology was not Rick Riordan's. Rick Riordan simply used those ideas and built upon them to create his own stories. Reading other stories such as The Odyssey and studying up on Greek mythology really helped me understand the Percy Jackson series.
My second example is the TV series Supernatural which is about two hunter brothers that hunt supernatural things such as demons and angels, but also creatures that were invented before. The idea of vampires and werewolves are used in this series as well as creatures from legends such as Bloody Mary.
My last example is the Disney movie "The Lion King." The Lion King was based Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and follows basically the same structure and story line. In both stories, the king is killed by the evil brother and the prince runs away for some time but comes back to take his rightful throne. Intertexuality is evident in all these examples because they are building upon previous ideas that already existed.
Intertextuality is the thought that there no work of literature is truly original because all works are related in some way.
ReplyDeleteThe first example that I will be speaking of is between Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars. In both films, a young teenagers meet, and fall in love, however, in Paper Towns they don’t end up dating but in each of these films, at the end one of the teenagers are lost.
The second example that I will be speaking of is between Divergent and The Hunger Games. They are both stories about a young girl that stands out from the rest and has to fight for everything that she cares about and they both also lose somebody that they care about along the way.
The last example that I will be speaking of is between White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen. In both films, a Secret Service agent tries to single-handedly defeat a gang of terrorists who have taken over the White House.
I like your definition, it was short and simple, and it covered intertextuality perfectly.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the idea that works are all based off of others. While reading a book or watching a movie, you might see or hear the mention of something you may have already read or watched. This is intertextuality.
My first example is going to be The Little Mermaid. In this movie, there is King Triton who is mentioned to be Posideons son. I used this as an example because there are many writings and movies/shows that speak of gods and Posideon.
My second example is from the book The Splendor Falls. There are mentions of Shakespearen times and writings in certain places in this book.
As my last example I am using the book The Dead-Tossed Waves. This book is based off of a zombie (or as they say 'Mudo') apocalypse. The zombie apocalypse is virtually everywhere nowadays.
I like how you wrote your definition, and I also love The Little Mermaid. It was my favorite princess movie when I was younger.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to Google the definition of intertextuality is “the relationship between text, especially literary ones”. Intertextuality is when you can connect two or more text due to their similarities.
The first time I connected two texts was when I was watching “The Vampire Diaries” after watching “Twilight”, I realized that the people who made these books had the same ideas or after reading “How to Read Literature Like A Professor” borrowed the same ideas for their books which later became a TV series and a movie series. “Twilight” and “The Vampire Diaries” are similar in the fact that both series contains an old mysterious male vampire who is after a young girl, also both contain the concept of the vampire switching from human blood to animal blood to become a more humane vampire.
The next time I associated two texts with each other was with “Arrow” and “The Flash” along with many other superhero series these two are most related in the fact that in both series there is a superhero. “Arrow” and “The Flash” are also related in the facts that both superheros are male, they got their power or strength through an accident, and they both have to save their hometown from villains.
Lastly I linked the movie “Titanic” with the book “Letters From Rifka” by Karen Hesse. I was able to link “Titanic” and “Letters From Rifka” because both involve a young woman going on a journey on some type of transportation, in the movie “Titanic” it was a huge steamship and in the book “Letters From Rifka” it a train. Both the book and movie also involve the young woman falling in love but the guy she fell in love with end up dying, both women also endure many struggles on their journey but in the end they both make it to where they were headed.
Watching The Flash was weird for me, after coming from Arrow it felt like the same story line. I could definitely see the similarities.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality means the relationships between texts. The idea suggests “new” texts aren’t well, new. Everything is based off of previous texts. Some examples of intertextuality are easy to spy, actually referencing other texts in it, while others you have to look around for it. My first example is John Green’s novel, Paper towns. In the book Margo references Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself a lot and Quentin uses it as clues to find where Margo went. I think this shows that the main characters are highly intelligent with not only being able to quote and understand the poem, but to also be able to use it to reveal or find out where Margo is. My second example is A Cinderella story, this is also easy to tell. It has the same characteristics of the Disney Cinderella. There is a girl, her dad has died leaving her with a evil step mom and step-sisters. She has a fairy godmother, in this case Sam who helps her got the ball, more modern being a school dance. The girl goes in a secret identity and meets the prince and he falls in love with her. However, the girl leaves at midnight because if not originally she will turn back into her old self, in this case her stepmom will find out that she has gone to the ball. Of course the girl eaves something behind that the price finds once a glass slipper, in this case her music. So then the prince goes all over seein whose shoe or music it is so he can find his princess. In the end they get together the stepmom is left powerless and the prince and princess leave together on a horse, or nice car. You can find many spin offs of cinderella like, Ever After, What a girl wants, Another Cinderella Story, Ella Enchanted, and many more. My final example is The Darkest Minds, there are many novels with corrupt societies and governments trying to kill off people like The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. The people in these novels all have some sort of uniform or code of some sorts to differentiate them. The Darkest Minds uses colors to show different powers and danger levels.Orange is the most rare and dangerous, they can control minds, infuence people’s actions,and change or delete others memories. Divergent has different names to show what they do or stand for. The dauntless group (literally meaning lacking fear and being brave) were the group who had little fears and did crazy things like jump off bridges and perform acts of violence if necessary. The Hunger Games was sorted by districts numbered 1 through 14. The districts were known for what they contributed to the society. For example District 13 were known for coal, which is why Pita and Katniss came in looking like coals on fire in the game.
I have never read The Darkest Minds, but I like how you compared it to Divergent. Good examples.
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DeleteThe definition of Intertextuality is the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.
ReplyDelete1. An example of this would be the Percy Jackson series and the Harry Potter series. Both of them has a main character that is a male and a girl who seems to know everything. Both of the main characters have a best friend and an old wise adviser. Also both of the main character ending up saving the day.
2. My next example would be Cinderella and Rapunzel. Both girls have an evil woman in their life controlling them and both of them were beautiful. In the end, both of the girls were save by prince charming and live happily ever after.
3. The last example would be the "West Side Story". The movie was based off of Romeo and Juliet but instead of the Capulet and Montague family, it is the Sharks and Jets. Both of them have a star crossed lover.
I really liked how you said that Cinderella and Rapunzel was similar, I never would have put them two together.
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DeleteI love your examples! I also agree with acs2000. I would have never put Cinderella and Rapunzel together.
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Intertextuality is the onoing intertaction between poems or stories; the relationship they have, something in common to enhance another piece of work. This happens a lot in Romance. Two pieces of romance works would be If I Stay and The Vow.
ReplyDeleteIf I stay is about a girl who loves to play orchestra music and listen to it. She meets this boy who is into punk music and is in a punk band. The two fall for each other and while it is snowing, she gets into a wreck that kills her brother, mother, and father. She is left in a come but still alive. Her loved ones stand by her side and wait for her to wake up.
In The Vow, it starts off with a couple who is leaving a movie theater at night, and while at a red light, the girl decides to get frisky and ends up distracting the boy, failing to notice the snow plow that ends up ramming into the back of the car, and sending it forward. The girl ends up getting thrown out the window and wakes up with Amnesia. She doesn't remember what has happened in last couple years, like marrying her husband and the reason why she doesn't talk to her parents anymore.
These two movies seem different but are actually somewhat similar. Both women get into a car wreck and have their family sit back and watch as they fight to regain what was once theirs.
I love your examples! I love both If I Stay and The Vow, I never thought of how similar they both are. Guess that's why I like them. I also like your definition of Intertextuality
DeleteThere are a lot of similarities between the two that I never noticed before! I liked your definition of Intertextuality, too.
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DeleteIntertextuality is the literary practice of linking the current work back to another work to make a connection.
ReplyDeleteOne example of this is the books in the Percy Jackson series. This is pretty obvious because it takes direct influence from Greek Mythology, but having read a lot about Greek Mythology, I knew a good amount of what was happening in the more confusing parts of the series.
Video games also use intertextuality. Many games are original in some way or another, but most take at least one idea or concept from previous games, whether it is a similar plot point or just a similar game mechanic, they all have some form of intertextuality. One particular example of this is in the genre of RPGs or Role-Playing Games. All of the RPGs that I have encountered involve doing menial tasks for random strangers for a small reward and some experience points which are then used to level up. When you level up you can upgrade yourself so that you can do these menial tasks more efficiently and help more random people. This is pretty much the general idea of all RPGs and when playing different ones, this consistency is an example of intertextuality.
Another example is in the book The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. In the book, Edmond, one of the four protagonists, betrays his savior figure, Aslan. This is very similar to the way that Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus in the New Testament.
By: Aaron N.
DeleteI love the Percy Jackson series even though I haven't read them. I just watched the movies. I like how you connected Greek mythology into it.
Delete-Kalynne H.
I think your definition really covers it perfectly, and the connections you made were done really well.
DeleteI liked how you used intertextuality within videogames as well.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the ongoing interaction between poems or stories. It is dialogue between old and new texts. In other words the writer is using one text to create a meaning for another text. The intertextuality makes the meaning of the text or dialogue have a deeper meaning. My first example is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. While reading and watching The Chronicles of Narnia, I started to make connections with the Bible. Aslan is the lion in the story that chooses to die for Narnia but he comes back. The Queen of Narnia or the White Witch represents the devil. She manipulates Edmund and takes him. The story makes you think of the Bible and how Jesus Christ put his life on the line for all of us. My second example is September the 11th. I know it was a devastating day but after that day, movies and books were written about it. One movie I know is Remember Me with Robert Pattinson in it. It is one of my favorites. The movie was based on the book written by Madeleine Wickham and it makes you think a whole lot more about that day and what it meant to everyone. In the movie Tyler is kind of a bad kid who looks after his little sister while his dad is all the time working. Tyler is furious with him because his sister thinks their dad doesn't love her. Throughout the movie, Tyler falls in love with the head of police's daughter and at the end of the movie, Tyler is waiting for his dad in the towers where he worked. That is when everything happened. My third example is the Old and New Testament. The New Testament references the Old testament giving it deeper meaning because it quotes the Old Testament such as Deuteronomy and Exodus.
By Noah Wollin
ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is when two plots are of different series are related to each other in some aspect.
One example is of Megamind and Despicable Me. Both movies are about a villain who is slowly becoming tired of being a villain, then being converted into a hero and having to stop a their own villain at the end of the movie.
A second example is Jumanji and Zathura. Someone stumbles upon an old board game and decides to play with someone. All of the events in the board game happen in real life too, some of which being very deadly. The only way to end these dangerous events is for a player to win the game.
The Avengers 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy. Both are in the same universe and are about a team of heroes who band together to stop an evil villain from destroying a city full of innocents by using the power of one of the infinity stones.
I like all of the things you paired up, especially the last two. Those are some of my favorite movies.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is when all modern day work have some roots to previously published work. Or that no piece of work is original and that it had something it can be traced back to.
My first example are superheroes. Every superhero story is something along the line of that a person acquired super human abilities or have tons of money. The use their newfound power or suit into protect their city from those who are evil. Some common examples are: The Dark Knight, Spiderman, Ironman, and Superman.
My second example are very old cartoons. The starting cartoon for mickey mouse " Steamboat Willie" was based off of a movie from the 1920's named " Steamboat Bill."
My last example is " The Phantom Of The Opera" to an episode of Scooby-doo.It may seem odd but I thought that there could not be a more clear connection. In it they copy the nature of the phantom into a creature that haunts the theatre. They are both tortured souls who have lost something but instead of being a kind person in the end it was actually a robber who wanted to steal all the kingdoms diamonds.
Intertextuality is the influence of one piece of literature on another piece of literature.
ReplyDeleteOne example is the influence of “The Odyssey” on the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou”. In the beginning of O Brother Where Art Thou there is even a quote from The Odyssey, definitely showing the intertextuality. The main characters in O Brother Where Art Thou face some of the same trails, although they are altered to fit the setting, the most common being the Cyclops in The Odyssey being compared to the one eyed con man in O Brother Where Art Thou
Another example is the influence of “The Odyssey” on the Spongebob Squarepants Movie. In the movie, Spongebob must battle a cyclops, get help from a magical female character, and is given a magical bag of winds, all mirroring the Odyssey. Mindy the Mermaid is mirrors Athena, The Diver mirrors the Cyclops, and the same bag of winds occur in both pieces of literature.
One of the greatest examples of intertextuality is Shrek. Shrek encompasses many references from many fairy tales such as Pinocchio, The Big Bad Wolf, etc. Shrek is essentially a backwards fairytale, so it mirrors the traditional fairytale ideal.
Post by: Kayla Williamson
ReplyDeleteIntertexuality is the idea that works of literature or films are connected and that they are all based on previous works. A great example of intertexuality is Scary Movie because it is a parody of various horror films. It also uses the typical plot that appears in other movies.
Another example of intertexuality is the film, 10 Things I Hate About You. It is based on William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”. In both versions the main character is represented as difficult and brazen.
The television series, Once Upon a Time is based off of classic fairy tales like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Little Red Riding Hood.
I like your explanation of intertexuality because it is short and easy to understand. I also like your examples because they are shows and plays almost everyone can relate to.
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Intertextuality. It's like using another person's text to support the meaning of your own. It reminds me a lot of plagiarism, just like how the book says. The things I associate intertextuality with are The Cinderella stories. They all have the same plot.
ReplyDeleteServant girl wants to go to the ball, she goes and dances with the prince, clock strikes (whether it be a phone or an actual clock), forgets something, the prince finds it and goes on a hunt for the mystery girl and eventually finds her. For all of these stories, they're the same, but they're different. In the Hilary Duff version, there is the evil stepmother and stepsisters, she works for them in the diner, there's a dance, Sam (Hilary's character)can't go, but goes anyway, shes masked and meets her prince, but right when shes about to reveal her identity, she gets a call and has to leave, but she forgets her phone, the "prince" (Quarterback on the school football team)goes looking for her, but everyone claims to be her, but then he finds the real girl and then happily ever after. It's the exact same with the other movies, just a slight tweak in plot, characters, and setting of the movies.
-Laurie Ricardo
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text to another text. My examples are all the ER medical shows. There are many differant medical shows out there but they all seem to connect to one thing. That is the fast pace of the hospital and ER. For example Untold Stories of the ER, in this tv series they show many differet ER situations and what they need to do in order to help the patient. Another show like this would be Grey's Anatomy, in Grey's Anatomy it takes place in Settle mainly in Settle Grace Hospital. It is a learning hospital so they have interns and the residents of the hospital must teach to interns how to help the patients. They treat different types of emergency accidents including surgeries. The last example would be Private Practice which is connected to Grey's Anatomy. Addison Montgomery a neonatal surgeon leaves Seattle Grace and goes to takeover her recently divorced friends private practice in LA. She goes and helps the patients there dealing with the neonatal patients.
ReplyDeleteBy: Haylee Franckewitz
DeleteIntertextuality is the connection between every book and movie, it is the idea that all literary works are taken from others. With these connections it can ease an understanding of a work, when you can gather information from one work and translate that into the other work.
ReplyDeleteThe first work that showed intertextuality is the Marvel Comics Universe. Most people have seen an Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and etc. movie before, within those movies a group is shown but usually of those members can have their own comic series which occasionally reflect or feature other comic book characters from other series. In the Marvel Universe, Captain America was the first Avenger and later in Hulk comics the reason the Hulk was created was through a failed attempt to recreate the Captains serum, which turned him into the superhero. In numerous comic books, Spider-Man joins the Avengers. All the comics and movies interconnect with each other within the Marvel Comics Universe.
The second work is the book Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (J.K. Rowling), this book is a spin-off of the original series Harry Potter. The characters aren’t the same but with prior knowledge of Harry Potter the idea of what the movie and book will be like is very real. The book and movie will also have beasts that were shown during the Harry Potter series, like acromantula and hippogriffs.
A third work is the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, throughout the movie there are many things pulled from “Taming of the Shrew” and Shakespeare. Knowing the story of the shrew would let you understand most of what is happening in the movie.
- Olyvia Knight
A word meaning not original or a remix is Intertextuality. Intertextuality can help make an connection with something in literature.
ReplyDeleteFor example everybody know who Cinderella is but do we know the real story? Disney shows the two mean sisters as just stuffing their foots in but in the original version it states that the sisters actually cut their heels and toes to fit their feet in bt are discover over the blood trail they were leaving in contrary to the glass shoe flying off her foot.
Another great example is “A Haunted house”. The movie is based off the the very well know movie series “Paranormal activity”. Everything in this film is completely different from the original but there very obvious clues that make is noticeable were the iead came from.
My last and final example is “Antes Muerta que Lechita” it’s a hispanic show that even though the producers deny it, is based off of “La fea mas Bella” in the english speaking community it would be ugly betty. Both are extremely similar but thanks to intertextuality everybody picked up the clues that point us to the idea that the show was based off “La Fea mas Bella”. - Stephanie Martinez
My definition of intertextuality is the broken down with stems. So inter- is within so put it together and it would be meaning within the text. Three examples where the text has helped me figure out the meaning of a word is in…
ReplyDelete1. In the book “Holes” by Louis Sachar I ran into the word canteen (this was before I started camping) so I continued reading and the surrounding text
2. Also in the one Harry Potter book I read there was many words that I had to look at the text surrounding the word to understand the one word
3. The final book I remember having to read around to find the meaning of the word was “A Walk for Sunshine” where I was not completely sure on some of the terminology used.
~Christopher Johnson
Intertextuality is the relationships and similarities that you can find between different works of literature. The first example of this helping me in understanding literature is when I read “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis. When I read this book for the second time I recognized the similarities between it and “The Old Testament.” In Lewis’ book you find that the character Edmund betrays his savior and leader, Aslan, and subsequently suffers for his actions. His siblings and friends do not trust him any more and he is at the mercy of the White Queen. In order to save Edmund, Aslan, the mirror of Jesus, sacrifices himself to the White Queen. Aslan is killed on the stone table, but later rises to return to his people and help fight in the war. This helped me to understand just how important Aslan’s sacrifice was for Narnia.
ReplyDeleteThe Second example is “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” and its similarity to “The Lord of the Rings.” Both books have a main character that is thrown into this adventure with a clear physical goal. Retrieve the bolt and destroy the ring respectively. Each main character is partly drawn into the story because of who their ancestors are and what they did. They have to learn new skills and traverse unfamiliar terrain in order to succeed. This similarity makes me appreciate the basic backbone that gives every story depth.
Lastly, I see obvious intertextuality between BBC’s “Sherlock” and the original Sherlock Holmes books. I will primarily talk about “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and its similarity to the 21st Century adaptation by Mark Gatiss, called “The Hound of Baskerville.” The original book is the story of the Baskervilles and the monstrous hound that people there claim to see. In the original the hound is actually the pet of a local painted with glow-in-the-dark paint, while in the adaptation the hound is a hallucination brought on by a gas created at the local government research facility. The adaptation has a nod to the original story when they mention a little girl’s missing bunny and later that bunny is seen glowing as if covered in phosphorescent paint. The similarity and yet originality of the BBC version helps me to appreciate the work and creativity that is put into the show to make it their own.
- Sarah Macon
- Alicia L. M. -
ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the relationship or how a text relates to other types of text, movies, novels or stories.
The All star comic books created a league of superheroes called Justice Society of America which published in 1940. Twenty years later DC Comic Books published one of the most well known superhero leagues in the 21th century called the League of Justice. The League of Justice is composed of different superheroes same have similar to the superheros from Justice Society of America. In 1963, Marvel publish a comic book called The Avengers this comic book seems to have been based on the League of Justice. All three of this example have a similar plot in which a town or city is in danger because of a evil villain and a superhero goes out and protect the civilians. In all this comic book the hero's use similar words and phrases about freedom.
Intertextuality- The idea that no single piece of literature is original rather that is has been derived from other pieces of literature.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Idol (2002) and The Voice(2011)
Two very popular American television shows are very similar. On American Idol people go and audition for a spot on the show to hopefully win and get a record deal. The voice works the exact same way. This helps the viewer understand the purpose of the show without having to watch an entire season.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story(2008) and The Fault in Our Stars(2012)
It’s Kind of a Funny Story is about a teenage boy who has depression and spends a lot of time with his therapist hoping to get better.One night Craig couldn’t do it anymore and he decided to commit suicide. However, before he jumped off a bridge, he called the suicide hotline and they convinced him to check himself in at a hospital instead. While at the hospital Craig meets a girl and spends all of his time figuring out how to make her his girlfriend. The fault in our stars can be connected to this novel by saying that instead of having depression Hazel had cancer. Although she didn’t go the therapist, she did go to a support group and while there she met a boy who she wanted to be in a relationship with. Although I did read TFIOS first, it helped me make connections to It’s Kind of a Funny Story because the plot lines were very similar and the characters faced many of the same challenges throughout the stories.
Family Guy(1999) and the Simpsons(1989)
Both of these television shows have the same concept. Both shows have animated families that do everything like normal. Watching one show will help you understand who does what in the other show.
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ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is the relationship between texts. The relationship can be with movies or books and are generally connected through previous works or archetypes. Three examples of intertextuality for me are Friday Night Lights (A TV show), Million-Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica, and Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally.
In all of these works, there is one common thing, Football and a challenge that the main character must face. I know that football star is not an archetypes, however, a hero is one. In each of these works, there is a hero.
In Friday Night Lights Jason Street and Matt Saracen are the two main heros. Jason must overcome his injury and learn to do day-to-day tasks while being paralyzed from the waist down. Matt must learn how to be a good leader and quarterback, along with dealing with issues from other people and at home.
In Million-Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica, Nate Brodie get the chance of a lifetime, he could win a million dollars by throwing a football throw a target-zone at a Patriots game. This money could really help out his family because his father just lost his job and they are about to lose their house. Also, his best friend Abby is slowly going blind and his arm begins to fail him. Matt must work through these obstacles in order to try to win for his family.
In Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally, Jordan Woods is the quarterback and captain of her high school football team. Everyone rags on her because she is a girl play a “man’s” sport. She has had to prove herself on and off the field multiple times. When the new guy, Ty Green, comes around and wants her position, things change all together. Jordan finds herself liking Ty and is having problems with herself and the team. Plus Ty has a secret that only Jordan’s best friend Sam Henry knows about.
In each of these stories, the main characters have to overcome challenges and that is what makes them heroes. What linked these stories together for me initially were that they are about a sport that I fully understand and love, but as they went on, I understood more things about the stories and linked them together in more ways than one.
ReplyDeleteAlana Williams
Intertextuality: the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
1. The Boondocks and The Black Panther
The TV show "The Boondocks" has constant references to stories about celebrities or things that go on in the media. One of the main character's is Huey who is named after a Black Panther Leader. He is very outspoken when it comes to his Pro-Black views.
2. Hunger Games and Divergent
Both book series have a strong female lead, who lives in a distopian future. She must beat the odds.
3. Roots and 12 years a slave
In my opinion most slave movies contain the same message and situations, these two movies show that. The trail that each character goes through.
Jennifer Calderon Villegas
ReplyDeleteIntertextuality is when something is related or seems related to another thing. In a way it can be seen as a parody or a remix. People feed off others ideas or a general idea to make something as their own.
My first example could be the 2012. This movie was seen to be about the world ending and falling apart. There are so many movies that have to do with a similar plot or idea like San Andreas, Armageddon, or even The Core. All of these movies have to do with the world ending or something of that sort.
The second example is The Weeknd. His voice is very too much similar to Michael Jackson’s voice and the form of some of his music is like it too. He had fed off some of his ideas when he realized their voices were similar and even tried having some of the same dance moves.
Lastly, any boy band to exist can be seen as intertextuality. They all have similar music, similar wardrobe, and even similar dance movements and poses. All boy bands have something in common and that’s why there is no in between when talking about loving or hating boy bands.