In my appropriation it shows a gun biting a thumb, based off Sampson biting his thumb at Abram from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The quote 'Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?' from my appropriation is also from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and is Abram's initial response to Sampson biting his thumb.
In my appropriation I have used visual techniques including vectors, salience and symbolism. The main vectors in my appropriation are the hand and the gun. The hand starts with the arm towards the bottom left of the image and then makes you follow it up towards the thumb. The gun does the same, but from the top right and then down towards the teeth of the gun. The salience in this image is the teeth of the gun biting the thumb, located in the center, being large and more detailed than the rest of the image. The symbolism shown in the image is the opposite colours and the letters on the gun and the hand. The gun being red and the thumb being blue shows that they both represent a different family. Also the gun being red, red symbolising the violence and anger from Abram. The C and the M shown represent their houses Capulet and Montague and that their actions will affect their families not just themselves.
I have combined my quote and my image by the quote being Abram's initial response, a response of him being offended by Sampson's actions. The gun showing that what Sampson is doing will cause violence and fighting, as Abram continues to question him 'Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?'. The image and quote both resemble tensions building and the eventual violence that breaks out, all with a simple action starting it all.
I have successfully appropriated the original text for a new audience by using an image of a gun, a modern symbol for violence, instead of a person's mouth biting the thumb, to immediately deliver the message to the modern audience. The message being that Sampson should not have done that as it has infuriated Abram but also shows that violence is to come.
