Muriel's Wedding Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Speech.

Muriel's Wedding Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Speech.
This section contains 704 words
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Speech: How Change Is Conveyed in "Muriel's Wedding"

Summary: The following is a speech on how change is conveyed in "Muriel's Wedding" directed by P.J Hogan.
Muriel's Wedding directed by P.J Hogan, is a tragic comedy set in Porpoise Spit, Australia. The text conveys numerous aspects associated with change. The dominant concepts of change depicted from the movie Muriel's Wedding is Change in perspective and Change in attitude within the persona, resulting from the realisation that physical change may not affect internal change. Muriel's wedding reflects these concepts through Muriel's discovery of herself, and a developing faith that she can have a good time, make friends and be valued without changing herself physically. Where at the beginning of the film Muriel believed she was "useless", so she went to extremes to change herself, change her name from Muriel to Mariel, and change who she really was. She identified perfect happiness with getting married, and thus had a thriving obsession with marriage. Marriage became the symbol of peer, social and self acceptance. By the...

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