Media's Use Of Repetition In Films

The Law of Repetition also created my Olrik shows many similarities throughout the comparison of these two works. With the original story showing to follow the rule of three when using repetition to build suspense, this can be shown through many examples, one being the repetition of Cinderella’s experiences for each of the three balls. Another example of this can be shown through the three trials that the prince took to find which of the sisters was his princess as he took both step sisters half way to the castle with the bloody shoe and then returned to the castle on his third attempt with the real Cinderella ( Appelbaum 87-89). With both these examples in the original telling of Cinderella using similar word phrasing when describing these events, it shows how the written piece was depended on the use of repetition in order to build tension and suspense within the story.

Although both media’s use the law of repetition, there are still differences in how the two media’s use repetition in the telling of Cinderella. The original telling of Cinderella uses repetition in a more obvious form as it is the books way of building expense and tension for the reader. As the book needs to use the Law of Repetition in order to interest the readers, the telling of Cinderella through a movie, the movie is able to build suspense in other ways shown through the use of music, camera angles and lighting (Tosenberger). As movies have more ways to build tension and suspense for the viewers, there shows to be less of a need for the use of