Wednesday 27 November 2013

Text's Characters

District 9 Characters


Wikus Van De Merwe

The science-fiction genre convention of body horror/ transformation where Wikus intake mutation genetics slowly transforming into an alien, presenting the way people now treat him differently metaphorically representing the way people treated black people.  




Christopher Johnson

Plays the role of a protagonist and the victim where Christopher represents the black and their struggles in life as they are pressured to segregate from the other division of the humans which are the representation of white. This displays  the apartheid of the past of black and white paying homage towards racism from the past.







Tania Van De Merwe

Tania plays the role of Wikus' wife and is portrayed as the princess based upon Propp's narrative theory. She has a minor role adhering to the stereotypical representations of woman in movies presenting her as the male's support, to be emotional and 















Sin City Characters


Nancy Callahan 












Marv
















Senator Roark













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