The Simpsons: A Postmodern Reading for the Position of an American Family

Abstract

With analysing The Simpsons, the following paper aims at clarifying the ideology of postmodernity and how this literary work exposes and confronts them. The paper analyses the text according to the postmodern techniques and strategie; intertextuality, hyper-reality, and fragmentation. The Simpsons, a popular cartoon comedy in the USA and worldwide, is intended to show the values of damaged American families. The Simpsons’ postmodern techniques have established it as one of the most significant shows. Throughout The Simpsons, readers get to see a variety of characters. This work shows essentially every element of North American society. Finally, almost anybody who has viewed The Simpson the least once in his\her life will find that it presents predictions which have received the corresponding traction. The Simpsons has become a routine dependency on subconsciously predicting actual events.