Orange Is The New Black The purpose of this paper is to analyze the worldview of a choice of media. I have chosen “Orange Is The New Black” created by Jenji Kohan. As many influences in this world, this series was not appealing until I watched one episode out of boredom. My eyes were wide-eyed from shock the whole episode. I was hooked and watched marathons until the last, fifth season. It was a guilt-ridden addiction that took hold quickly.
Synopsis
The postmodernistic Netflix series “Orange Is The New Black” delivers a regular shot of adrenaline, a dose of drama, and a gift box of disbelief. Piper, who is the main character, begins her life in a free world to commit crime, sin, and free to do just about anything she chooses. When a crime from her past catches up to her she is sentenced to federal prison for 15 long, life-changing months. Piper must adjust quickly to life within prison walls. Her previous worldview suddenly didn’t fit into prison
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It takes a few times getting beaten down and starved out to find her inner strength. She learned to form aliases with her enemies, carefully chose relationships with the guards and began to take on a bully persona to gain power and respect. She adapted to the environment and became hardened to deflect the psychotic advances and pretend to not be affected by sexual misconduct between the inmates and guards.
Evil Influences
The guards lose their integrity and become power drunk as many humans do in the real world. As in the real world, humans can view the world as like a pinball machine, where the human is the ball; getting jolted around and often moving about as a reaction to something unknown in the way, and sometimes they make it to the top, and sometimes make it into the black hole. Experience makes us stronger, and smarter, and too many times of getting knocked down, we will hopefully bounce right back and try again with better skill.
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