Week 9 Shards of Honor
The novel Shards of Honor has a very western film like quality of having
the heroes bring order to the chaos that is about to be unleashed to the world
or in their case the galaxy. They do so by achieving the leadership to maintain
order and peace for all. This novel has a very similar trend like Star Trek how
the hierarchy and position in power affect the people and their relationship
with one another in trying to pick sides. Stereotyping the male deuterogamist
as a very butch man with instincts to fight and thrive in war, very male
dominated with traditional-like roman soldiers with no women. The female deuterogamist
shows another side of strength with her emotions as her driving force for her
morality and position as a commander and proves to have intelligence as her
strength.
The genre of romance of love makes you do crazy things in the situation of
Commander Cordelia who decided to stay behind to help fight with her captor and
love interest Vorkosigan against mutiny. She jeopardizes her own safety and rejects
the rescue from her home team. Even in the attempt of rape of her she still tries
to remains calm. This shows a side of war that is very common barbaric and
savage treatments against female soldiers or women in general. Almost always
pairing the two opposite sex characters together when struggling together. The
main characters from opposite side are in similar situation like their
counterpart the star-cross lovers Romeo and Juliet of two enemy households.
The romance is emphasis on the trust and hope that the two main characters
have for each other considering, for right now they are each other’s most
trusted allies. Maybe that is why in so many films of adventure and thriller
there are people getting paired up because during the heat of excitement and
life or death situations the heart and the adrenaline are amplified as if ones
heart skip a beat and could be mistaking it for love or attraction.
The drama, part in the novel, is the fact that they show some realistic
tragedies of how female soldiers are treated when capture. Barrayaran, very
military traditional obsess with the power of dominating in territory where as
Cordelia’s society is more on Democracy and intelligence. The novel captures
how soldiers in real life go through this type of danger of fighting among
themselves and being manipulated by politics. The genres other than Sci-fi are
action, adventure, romantic, drama, thriller and war. War genre mainly focuses
on socialism the problems of struggling to be on top of the hierarchy. Like “Games
of Throne” with enemies working together allies betraying one another the upper
ranks soldiers of the privilege class is corrupted the underdogs are the main
characters.
In the movie “Serenity” the fact that the suppress of human emotion as the way of life and logic, to hold back on things that humans instinctively or unnaturally do without hesitation almost like being a robot. In the movie “Serenity” there seem to be a used of Chinese culture infused with this westernize world and no Chinese main characters, another trend in western movies of having almost all white cast with one main black actor despite the fact the world they live in a world that has a fusion of Western and Chinese culture and society in not only having the Chinese characters or chopsticks but Asian people. And the fact, that the two main characters have Chinese last names but are not Asian.
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