Wendy’s Importance in the Shining

Wendy is portrayed differently in film and book. Now we are termination to have words ab unwrap(a) the Wendy in film first. She is timid and passive, always abject to her married man and stick to her power as a mother a married woman. In fact, Kubrick once explained why he presented wendy so differently from the angiotensin converting enzyme in the book, he said Wendy is portrayed in this way so that the film audience would non wonder why she puts up with jak for so long. * Her submissiveness to hole can be revealed in the pur emplacement that Jack was typing his pass while Wendy stepped in and tried to know if his work had been smooth or non.In response to what wendy said, Jack did not appear to receive wendys coming. He yet accused her of interrupting his work and started establishing a newborn rule with foul language used. The point is, regarding jacks reaction, wendy fair(a) kept saying yeah and ok to show her agreement to his reaction. She hitherto suggested m aking sandwiches for him. All these showed that she was a very submissive and passive to her maintain, and she would not voice her opinion easily in face of Jack. * Wendy kept gummy to her role as a wife and a mother.Scenes of her preparing breakfast for her hubby and child can be seen from time to time in the movie. It is vindicatory like she was any other traditional women since these kinds of job had long been seen as daily routine of mothers and wives. Thus these scenes actu aloney reinforced her image as a mother and a wife to audience. * Her costumes in the movie as well as demod her motherly nature. Very often when she appears in the movie, she was wearing aprons and had her cop tied up, which implies she had been occupied with housework and house chores since thats what women are like when they are doing that. However, wendys passiveness actu every(prenominal)y has played a role in contributing to the tragic end of the story. in fact, although jacks indifference and irrepectful attitude to her had already showed his decreasing love, care and passion for her, all she did was just sticking to her role as a mother and wife continuously without doing other things to save her marriage. For example, apart from the scene about interrupting her economises work which I just mentioned, there is a scene that she prepared breakfast for her economise in the morning.It is just like her husbands attitude to her would change if she kept sticking to her role as a good wife and a good mother since that whitethorn gain her husbands appreciation some day. * Apart from this, her over-reliance to her husband all added fuel to the tragic end of the story. for example, when she was told by Danny that he had been legal injury by the woman in room 237, her first reaction was to natural spring to her husband and asked her husband what should they do next. Her over-reliance on Jack therefore do her become hysterical and frightened when Jack was out of his mind.Her ac tions were all out of an instinct to survive and protect her son. She herself did not really know how to silence down and make decisions properly on her own. * Since she was very submissive to her husband and she dared not ask and read about the things that Jack did and wrote, she became ignorant of her families touch-and-go situation. it was not until she found that all the things jack had been typing these days were all work and no play makes jack a dull son that she realized that jack had gone out of his mind. This ____ shot shows her desperation and business organization clearly to the audience.And the over-the-shoulder shot which demonstrated jacks point of view in seeing his wifes back further signifies the endangerment approaching wendy, which had not been observed by her. * It is known that shots have a function of showing the audience characters point of view as that particular moment, and these contrasting shots showing jack approaching wendy when he discovered what we ndy found about him can not only demonstrate how they saw each other as that moment, jacks frenzy and wendys helplessness can also be shown clearly to the audience.It is because with their dominance in these shots, audience can see the characters facial expression as well as their body movements and gestures which showed their emotions and feelings clearly. * Now we are going to talk about the wendy in book. In fact, the wendy in book is not as submissive as the one in film. For example, she once wanted to overtake divorced with jack after jack hurt Danny. This means she was not submissive and passive to save herself and her son in face of her husband.She even voiced out her opinion and grievances to jack from time to time. For example, when they heard inappropriate noises coming from outside of their room and jack wanted to go out and see by himself, wendy said Dont you dare consecrate us alone and suggested going to investigate what happened to restoreher. She also gave sugg estions about how to get Danny out of the hotel after he was hurt by the woman in 237. * Unlike the wendy in film,