hey guys i called the hsc advice line last night and read my essay and they said it was pretty much wrong 
so ive spent all last night and morning tryin 2 fix it up so any feedback would be HEAPS APPRECIATED !
A universal absolute truth transcends contextual barricades and for a spiritual believer it is difficult to separate it from a god. By contrasting a variety of texts, one realises the representation of truth truly differs from the absolute truth. KG once famously asserted say not I have found the truth but rather I have found a truth for the events which occur in our lives are largely accredited to the manner of which they are represented. Be it poetry, media, or articles the conveyance of absolute truth is subjective thus all put forward their individual version of it. The HSC prescribed text b’day letters, film Sylvia and documentary Outfox demonstrate the ideas behind representing truth are knotted and complex.
Each poem in birthday letters, in being an art of expression, draws the responder deeper into teds intimate feelings as he addresses his former wife as “you” arguably adding a personal touch. “The shot” is used by Hughes to depict Plath’s psyche effectively through the bullet metaphor as Plaths “worship needed a god”. It defines life with Sylvia, one similar to dodging a bullet originally fired by her Daddy. Her father’s death set the motion for her turbulent life; however this is merely a plausible explanation and not the essential truth. The main image of a shot is of a violent character where “You ricocheted the length of your Alpha career with the fury of a high-velocity bullet”, in a sense she was larger than life and “Provisional, speculative” mortals, like Ted, could not match her personality in her search for her father. Hughes accuses Plath in being the villainous and him the victim or “surrogate God” caught in “your undeflected” crossfire. The free verse form in this allegorical poem adds to the idea of an inner truth thereby playing on the responder’s emotions. In using poetic techniques to explore an emotional truth, Ted sees Plath as a “gold jacketed, solid silver, nickel tipped bullet” provides a logical reason as to why Hughes would abandon the death bringing force. Nevertheless when texts are constructed, they assert their truth in a way that facts are distorted and altered to deliver a certain view.
In a continuation of “the shot” theme, Ted’s poem “your Paris” essentially deals with appearance versus reality, once again reminding us of Ted’s representation of truth. The cultural capital of Europe is centred upon as the extended metaphor where Plath painted romantic “American” views against Ted’s prosaic “post-war utility survivor” outlook. As his Paris was so different: “I kept it from you” which conveys a sense of betrayal on Ted’s behalf and demonstrates the lack of truthful communication. The differing Paris’s implies their contexts in being American and British shape their understandings of the world. Plath’s “shatter of exclamations” and “practiced lips” also suggests she learnt to cover up her anguish, Obstructing Ted and all others from sensing the truth about her. Thus her representation of the truth, as Ted points out, is misleading and “protected you from your spontaneous combustion. Protected you and your Paris”. In Ted’s final stanza, he compares himself to a guide dog “loyal to correct your stumblings” to evoke the responders sympathy in representing the mental hazards of Plath.
“The truth comes to me, the truth loves me” is an infamous exert from Christine Jeff’s movie Sylvia, adding a cryptic nature to the inevitability of truth in her audio visual text “Sylvia”.
Extensive research into diary entries; interviews and poem interpretations were used in this production which represents Sylvia as a wonderful woman knocked off her pedestal by Ted. Close up camera shots of being burdened with squabbling babies, domestic worked and married to a habitual womaniser did nothing to nurture Sylvia’s confidence. A man quips at a party “it must not be easy. Married to that”, as Ted’s wandering eye fuelled Plath’s internal struggles. To the filmmakers, Sylvia is the fractured party where Ted sucked all the oxygen out of their lives. The television medium is a potent tool, particularly persuasive, in portraying Jeff’s “truth” of the relationship. The visual audio text exploits its medium in representing the truth as the dank, bitter environment brings a foreboding quality to their lives. When compared to Sylvia, Ted’s poems form juxtaposition. Nevertheless, one is viewing two versions of the same reality, along with the same, relationship, problems and outcomes. However, one cannot recognise the same combustible Sylvia from Ted’s poems, rocketing through life undeflected as a death-bringing force. The movie further insinuates that Ted’s philandering and subsequent abandonment of her, led to her mental decline as he incessantly emerges from darkness. However, this is Christine Jeff’s self-serving version of the truth where is can seem reality is pushed back in a dusty corner.
A documentary, in being an examination of a subject, is not the bare truth but a perspective of some portrait of reality. This perspective can be as loose or slant as the director allows, and in outfoxed, it is utterly lopsided against the fox Network. Produce Gruenwald examines the representation of truth and its manipulation through political bias and sensationalism with a series of interviews, imagery, media pieces and commentary. The documentary includes a rapid-fire succession of clips of more than a dozen FOX hosts using the phrase "some people say" — which Greenwald demonstrates is a way to insinuate opinion disguised as reporting into on-air discussions. Targeting George Bushes rival Kerry as “a ten time French flip flopper” focussing terribly on his weaknesses rather than acknowledging his strengths, adds yet another bias dimension to the truth to glorify bush who “deserves a second term”. Thus rather than informing the minds of the masses, the fox network is creating them. In “outfoxed” the Fox network attacks, packages and manufactures the truth as though it were a piece of material. Nonetheless by bombarding the responder with the deceptivity concocted by the fox network, one takes away from outfox the “truth” from Greenwald portrait of reality.
Therefore Khalil Gibran once famous asserted say not I have found the truth but rather a truth and this is certainly the case in Birthday letters, Sylvia and Outfoxed. In Birthday letters Ted’s portrayal of the truth absolves him from his former wife’s suicide as he was overwhelmed by her “high-velocity bullet”, yet in Sylvia, his womanising was the sole instigator for her mental decline. Nevertheless, both versions of the truth have and may forever be questioned due to their subjectivity. Further, in delving into the depths of political media in outfoxed, one discovers the truth to be twisted for profitable gain. YET THE TRUTH, SIMPLY AND SOBERLY STATED, and CAN NEVER SEEM TO HOLD ITS OWN IN MODERN TIMES AS IT IS always under construction. This being said, through teds b’day letters, Sylvia and outfoxed, all evidently demonstrate the ways in which absolute truth is distorted based on ones content and intent.
so ive spent all last night and morning tryin 2 fix it up so any feedback would be HEAPS APPRECIATED !
A universal absolute truth transcends contextual barricades and for a spiritual believer it is difficult to separate it from a god. By contrasting a variety of texts, one realises the representation of truth truly differs from the absolute truth. KG once famously asserted say not I have found the truth but rather I have found a truth for the events which occur in our lives are largely accredited to the manner of which they are represented. Be it poetry, media, or articles the conveyance of absolute truth is subjective thus all put forward their individual version of it. The HSC prescribed text b’day letters, film Sylvia and documentary Outfox demonstrate the ideas behind representing truth are knotted and complex.
Each poem in birthday letters, in being an art of expression, draws the responder deeper into teds intimate feelings as he addresses his former wife as “you” arguably adding a personal touch. “The shot” is used by Hughes to depict Plath’s psyche effectively through the bullet metaphor as Plaths “worship needed a god”. It defines life with Sylvia, one similar to dodging a bullet originally fired by her Daddy. Her father’s death set the motion for her turbulent life; however this is merely a plausible explanation and not the essential truth. The main image of a shot is of a violent character where “You ricocheted the length of your Alpha career with the fury of a high-velocity bullet”, in a sense she was larger than life and “Provisional, speculative” mortals, like Ted, could not match her personality in her search for her father. Hughes accuses Plath in being the villainous and him the victim or “surrogate God” caught in “your undeflected” crossfire. The free verse form in this allegorical poem adds to the idea of an inner truth thereby playing on the responder’s emotions. In using poetic techniques to explore an emotional truth, Ted sees Plath as a “gold jacketed, solid silver, nickel tipped bullet” provides a logical reason as to why Hughes would abandon the death bringing force. Nevertheless when texts are constructed, they assert their truth in a way that facts are distorted and altered to deliver a certain view.
In a continuation of “the shot” theme, Ted’s poem “your Paris” essentially deals with appearance versus reality, once again reminding us of Ted’s representation of truth. The cultural capital of Europe is centred upon as the extended metaphor where Plath painted romantic “American” views against Ted’s prosaic “post-war utility survivor” outlook. As his Paris was so different: “I kept it from you” which conveys a sense of betrayal on Ted’s behalf and demonstrates the lack of truthful communication. The differing Paris’s implies their contexts in being American and British shape their understandings of the world. Plath’s “shatter of exclamations” and “practiced lips” also suggests she learnt to cover up her anguish, Obstructing Ted and all others from sensing the truth about her. Thus her representation of the truth, as Ted points out, is misleading and “protected you from your spontaneous combustion. Protected you and your Paris”. In Ted’s final stanza, he compares himself to a guide dog “loyal to correct your stumblings” to evoke the responders sympathy in representing the mental hazards of Plath.
“The truth comes to me, the truth loves me” is an infamous exert from Christine Jeff’s movie Sylvia, adding a cryptic nature to the inevitability of truth in her audio visual text “Sylvia”.
Extensive research into diary entries; interviews and poem interpretations were used in this production which represents Sylvia as a wonderful woman knocked off her pedestal by Ted. Close up camera shots of being burdened with squabbling babies, domestic worked and married to a habitual womaniser did nothing to nurture Sylvia’s confidence. A man quips at a party “it must not be easy. Married to that”, as Ted’s wandering eye fuelled Plath’s internal struggles. To the filmmakers, Sylvia is the fractured party where Ted sucked all the oxygen out of their lives. The television medium is a potent tool, particularly persuasive, in portraying Jeff’s “truth” of the relationship. The visual audio text exploits its medium in representing the truth as the dank, bitter environment brings a foreboding quality to their lives. When compared to Sylvia, Ted’s poems form juxtaposition. Nevertheless, one is viewing two versions of the same reality, along with the same, relationship, problems and outcomes. However, one cannot recognise the same combustible Sylvia from Ted’s poems, rocketing through life undeflected as a death-bringing force. The movie further insinuates that Ted’s philandering and subsequent abandonment of her, led to her mental decline as he incessantly emerges from darkness. However, this is Christine Jeff’s self-serving version of the truth where is can seem reality is pushed back in a dusty corner.
A documentary, in being an examination of a subject, is not the bare truth but a perspective of some portrait of reality. This perspective can be as loose or slant as the director allows, and in outfoxed, it is utterly lopsided against the fox Network. Produce Gruenwald examines the representation of truth and its manipulation through political bias and sensationalism with a series of interviews, imagery, media pieces and commentary. The documentary includes a rapid-fire succession of clips of more than a dozen FOX hosts using the phrase "some people say" — which Greenwald demonstrates is a way to insinuate opinion disguised as reporting into on-air discussions. Targeting George Bushes rival Kerry as “a ten time French flip flopper” focussing terribly on his weaknesses rather than acknowledging his strengths, adds yet another bias dimension to the truth to glorify bush who “deserves a second term”. Thus rather than informing the minds of the masses, the fox network is creating them. In “outfoxed” the Fox network attacks, packages and manufactures the truth as though it were a piece of material. Nonetheless by bombarding the responder with the deceptivity concocted by the fox network, one takes away from outfox the “truth” from Greenwald portrait of reality.
Therefore Khalil Gibran once famous asserted say not I have found the truth but rather a truth and this is certainly the case in Birthday letters, Sylvia and Outfoxed. In Birthday letters Ted’s portrayal of the truth absolves him from his former wife’s suicide as he was overwhelmed by her “high-velocity bullet”, yet in Sylvia, his womanising was the sole instigator for her mental decline. Nevertheless, both versions of the truth have and may forever be questioned due to their subjectivity. Further, in delving into the depths of political media in outfoxed, one discovers the truth to be twisted for profitable gain. YET THE TRUTH, SIMPLY AND SOBERLY STATED, and CAN NEVER SEEM TO HOLD ITS OWN IN MODERN TIMES AS IT IS always under construction. This being said, through teds b’day letters, Sylvia and outfoxed, all evidently demonstrate the ways in which absolute truth is distorted based on ones content and intent.