Everyone is not what they seem
For my
Themester blog, I chose to see the movie Catfish. Catfish is the true
story of Nev Shulman, who started a relationship with a woman he
believed to be a young, blonde artist, but who actually
turned out to be a middle age woman. Relating this back to Shakespeare,
Catfish definitely uses the theme of deception that Shakespeare was
always incorporating into his plays. I’ve interpreted Shakespeare’s
constant usage of lying and deception as more of
a message that mankind as a whole fuels itself off of lying. Though Nev
figured out that he was being catfished and the woman wasn’t the
beautiful blonde he had grown to be fond of, he ended up creating a
friendship with this woman. She ended up being a very
kind person and a great friend to Nev. This also made me think of
Shakespeare because, whether it was a comedy, tragedy, history, the
antagonist or protagonist, deception didn’t discriminate. Shakespeare
was proving that anyone is capable of deceiving you,
no matter what kind of person they are.
posted on behalf of Jacqueline Kiley
A quick syntactical point: fuels itself off of lying is a mixed construction; "is fueled by lies" seems to be your assertion. I like you endpoint here: that Shakespeare revises our understanding of deception from the practice of sly, malevolent people to a human constant--perhaps a human impulse to reinvent the self? The description of the film, however, is a bit thin. What allows this deception to be practiced? How does the deceiver account for it? or does this extenuation matter? There is more to be said about the proper and improper conditions of deception than you let on.
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