I Never know what to expect in my English 203 class. One day we can have a conversation about the material we read. While in another we can talk about MGM’s Leo the lion and the copy cat version using a kitten by MTM. It is always a surprise that I enjoy coming too twice a week.
Even if it seems to not be related to anything in the slightest Professor McCoy makes every class entertaining and memorable. Everything we do does have a meaning in the end and always connects to previous and present assignments. Our conversation this day was followed by talking about how it relates to past experiences. One of my classmates I believe it was Choi who stated that it reminded him of watching Tom and Jerry because it was the first thing he saw in every episode. I was curious in this because I did remember a lion roaring but not like the one Professor McCoy showed us in class. In my research I found that it was not the same beginning but it was made by the same company MGM. It was a different style but it was the same premises.
After this conversation we talked about satire( the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices) and parody(an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.). It was satirical how MCM was run by all men and MTM was run by women. Men are portrayed as lions who roar while women are kittens who meow. This is more of gentle wittiness and exaggeration then as a way to ridicule how genders are portrayed. I found this interpretation of logos to be funny as it is humor not the truth.
This conversation gave me a wider perspective on how actually learning more about a topic could led to finding out a deeper meaning. Without more knowledge I would have not figured out the satire in MTM’s logo.