I really liked the point of view Adrian presented this week. He said that an author’s work isn’t an insight into their mind. You can only analyse what the piece itself is saying. This made me think of Sacha Baron Cohen. His work is really controversial and although it portrays him as very racist, it doesn’t mean that he actually is. For example a lot of his work is racist towards Jewish people. What a lot of people don’t realise is that Sacha Baron Cohen is Jewish and does not actually believe anything his characters say or do. He is merely creating something for an audience.

Something I didn’t agree with, like Elliot, was that the author can’t control the reader and what they think. Of course authors don’t have 100% control of the mind of their audience however don’t texts have some sort of aim? Don’t they strive to achieve a certain response from the audience? Even the most obvious: persuasive writing… Isn’t persuasive writing supposed to persuade the audience into agreeing with something? Films also constantly guide an audiences mind. No one would have watched Avatar and thought “These humans should be knocking down this extra terrestrial forrest” or watched Titanic and thought “Don’t let Jack live”.