Film – Chocolat (2000) directed by Lasse Hallstrom
1) What challenges or opportunities does the globalising world present to individuals AND/OR communities in this text, and how do they respond?
For individuals and communities, within ‘Chocolat’; a globalising world can facilitate both the opportunity to merge with the local and intertwine their values but potentially also generate conflict with the challenges against the preconceived traditions of the local.
Vianne’s entrance brings aspects of the global world, epitomized as chocolate, which contests the faith of the isolated, orthodox villagers of their culture. Lent is significant of the religious thresholds of the conservative locals that explore the global commodity of chocolates as…show more content… What challenges or opportunities does the globalising world present to individuals AND/OR communities in this text, and how do they respond?
‘Wild Swans’ explores how whilst globalisation has influenced a corrupt totalitarian society within China, it also facilitates opportunities of escape for individuals away from oppression.
With the rise of globalisation, the influences of Western ideology have permeated into China and thus introduced Communism. For the Chinese people, communism comes as an adversary in the form of a corrupt totalitarian regime, it degrades China into a state predicated on undermining others to ensure survival. The stifling society is one marked by violent and brutality. Chang describes it as the dystopian mirrored in George Orwell’s ‘1984’ “…marvelling constantly at how aptly Orwell’s description fitted Mao’s China…” (Pg. 663) to connote the deprivations that Communism has created in terms of depriving the people of the freedom of speech and education and the various powerful propaganda campaigns utilised for amoral…show more content… For Chang and many of her siblings, globalisation enables the passage of escape; various opportunities in the global world draw them away from the oppression that was China. A global world is able to provide Chang with the freedom to pen her politically dangerous story and release it for the world, a liberty not acquired in China “...the idea of publication seemed out of question.” (Pg. 653).
2. How does the composer’s use of AT LEAST one significant technique to explore the changing realities of the globalising world?
Western literature is used symbolically by the author to convey the transitions of Chinese society from a traditional, closeted society into a community predicated on a global context. Karl Marx’s works are featured as an allegorical reference to the influences of universal politics, communism, which influences China to lean towards the influences of globalisation. But it also provides an unprecedented education alluding to the circumstances they were in.
Communism becomes a theme which represents globalisation’s influence in China. It connotes a sense that tradition has no stance against the global world and all the traditional structures of China are removed as a result of
