02/20/2022

RP#3

 

When we think about the way we see the world we don’t really think about why we perceive things in certain ways. This is due to the many different systems of communication that have been in place since the beginning of time. These systems have been shaping our worldviews since we were little. teaching us how to view things or how to perceive them. They teach us to understand certain things when we look at symbols or images or events. And this is why it is so important for creators and designers to really take into consideration the way they communicate something to the world because it can make people see and think a certain way. In the text, we can see how they use the picture of Eve handing an apple to adam. Why an apple? a lot of people may ask, as they describe it in the reading an apple symbolizes temptation. By using an apple the designer already had in mind that the fruit already had this meaning in our heads so why not use it to symbolize the message of the forbidden fruit. We also see this tactic being used in the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, where an evil witch poisons Snow white with a cursed apple into a death state of sleep and can only be awakened by its lover’s first kiss. This is another example: these systems of communication can construct a way of thinking and infiltrate it into our minds without us even knowing. This is because what is often seen as natural is just the product of various cultural habits and prejudices that have become so ingrained that we no longer notice them. Everything has a form and a meaning and through the communication systems, we assign certain meanings and emotions to these things.

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