Monday, April 26, 2010

FFW: How are TWN and Just Add Water the same?

There is an emphasis on water in both works

Alcohol and drugs

Love triangles

Disguises
Characters are "living a lie" in both works


They follow the same plot
Both works follow the Comedic Curve: normal--> far from normal--> new normal
In TWN, everything starts out as normal. Orsino keeps trying to woo Olivia. Then, things start to change. Viola and her brother are caught in a storm. Each thinks the other one has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a man and joins Orsino’s court. When Viola tries to woo Olivia for Orsino, she falls in love with him and Olivia falls in love with her. Everything eventually is rectified. Olivia chooses Viola’s brother as her husband and Viola and Orsino are joined as well.

In Just Add Water, Ray has a routine. He works from 9-5, goes to the Rite-Valu to pick up food for dinner, and repeat. This changes however when he comes home early one day. He finds his wife in bed with his brother. His wife tells him that the affair has been going on before she had their baby. She also tells him that Ray is not the father of their child, his brother is. Charlene (Ray’s wife) and his son move out. He starts a new life. Ray begins a relationship with Nora and overthrows Durk, making the town better.

2 comments:

  1. I like your explanation of the normality curve, it makes it very easy to see the parallels. Yet, I wish you would have talked more about your initial idea of emphasis on water in both works. That is much more interesting and less obvious, I think it was a good idea.

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  2. Hannah - what a beautiful blog! Keep blogging...

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