Introduction
One way of making complicated things simple to understand is through classification. The entertainment industry classifies movies and TV shows using various principles such as genre. There are many TV shows in the entertainment industry which are divided and classified using various classification principles.
Due to similarities in characteristics of these TV shows it becomes important use better classification principles than the generally used. Different TV shows depict different themes in the plot. Thus theme can be an ingenious classification principle. This paper seeks to divide and classify TV shows using theme as a classification principle.
House TV Series
House is a TV show currently being viewed by many people. All episodes of the show are set on a hospital set up. The main characters are all doctors belonging to a diagnostic team which goes beyond its means to solve very complicated medical conditions. In such a setting, it is expected that conflicts will always come up and this becomes the main backbone of classification.
Theme as a Classification Principle
The main principle of division and classification is theme. TV shows can be divided into different categories depending on the predominant theme depicted.
A close observation of the series suggests that theme of conflict of interests is most predominant. Under this theme, House can be categorized into three types. These types include conflict of moral values, gender conflicts and intellectual conflicts.
According to my classification system, TV shows can be classified according to main theme of the show. House lies in theme of conflict. Then, a chosen TV show is categorized according to the type of conflict that is dominant. Different shows in House series demonstrate different types of conflicts.
One show that really demonstrated conflict of intellectual values as a type of conflict is season four episode six. In this show Gregory house was invited to the secret CIA center where he was expected to perform a diagnosis to a sick CIA agent.
Gregory house really had a hard time with the CIA doctor Curtis. Both doctors engage in a tough intellectual battle with each trying to prove his worth. The diagnostic team left back at Plainsboro engage in an intellectual tug of war.
Chase, Foreman and the interns try to use their intellectual muscles against each other. Although they fail to solve medical case on their own, each one of them tried the level best to outdo others in absence of their master.
The whole House series tried to demonstrate elements of gender conflicts in the workplace. However, this type of conflict became eminent in the last episode of season three. Cameron and Chase despite being engaged to one another engaged in a gender conflict.
There is war between genders with Lisa Cuddy supporting Cameron against Chase and House. Cameron fails to take it anymore and is forced to quit her job as a diagnostician at Plainsboro. She calls it quits and resigns her job and the next season had to begin with a process of recruiting a new diagnostician to replace her. This shows how gender conflicts affect people at work place.
The most exemplified type of conflict is conflict of moral values. Although most of the episodes contain elements of conflict of moral values, season six episode three went overboard in demonstrating this type of conflict.
The diagnosticians were faced with one of the most morally challenging issues they could ever handle. They had to treat a leader of an African country who was implicated in massacre. The leader wanted to be so that he could go on with his massacre plans.
Cameron and Chase were faced with a tough moral decision of whether or not to let him live by secretly breaking some medical rules. Chase finally decides to secretly kill the evil minded leader.
Foreman and House cover up the conspiracy. However, Cameron comes to learn the truth and this breaks her moral nerves. She ends her marriage with chase over this case and vows never to return to Plainsboro hospital.
These three scenarios in House TV show are just a representative of how a TV can be divided and classified according to a well thought principle. Other TV shows can as well be put under the same classification. What is needed is to understand what the TV show is all about and what theme is exemplified.
Conclusion
It can conclusively be said that, division and classification can be used to categorize any movie or a TV show. In this case, the theme of TV show was used as the main principle of classification. Under the theme of conflict, three different types of conflicts were used to categorize the TV shows.
There may be faint elements of overlap of the types of conflicts used to categorize the shows. However, the examples from the whole series serve the purpose well. The theme principle can be applied to categorize any other TV show as well.