EN 3176 Final: EN 3176 Final Exam Notes (Fall 2011)

• School: York University
• Department: English
• Course: EN 3176
• Professor: Christian Leveille

Document Summary

Betty boop is a performer that is keenly aware of her audience and appears to be on stage no matter where she goes. The surrealistic environment around bimbo shows no easy way out of the great depression. Only by enduring it, there will surely be a reward for it. Sexual seduction from betty towards bimbo is introduced as pleasure and desire. The constant squiggling movement of betty boop"s body is displayed in conjunction with the background music. Betty"s struggle when tied to a tree with ropes symbolizes the helplessness of a typical victorian era feminine culture. The cartoon is not about sense and the storyline, the music produces a message to the feelings and themes of femininity about the typical fantasy life of betty boop. This hallucination and surrealism in the world of betty boop creates a fluid stream of time that never seems to end. Dream imagery manipulates objects and setting of the cartoon to depict something else entirely.