Gender Roles In The Golden Compass And Harry Potter

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“The Hobbit” and “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” are both very interesting books. These books have many similar and different concepts. Eating with others, eating others, quests, and geography are all concepts that are in both books.

Books or movies which follow the structure of The Hero’s Journey tend to influence the audience more. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling and Way of the Rat by Chuch Dixon follow this structure to the point.

Now, no child wants to read a book for school over the summer. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but it’s just the reality of life. The two books that were required to read for the summer were long, but interesting in a way. The Hobbit is the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I have never read any of the Lord of the Ring trilogy but this book was very interesting to read. How to Read Literature Like a Professor breaks down the literature world into a much, easier understanding so that, us as the reader, can see literature in the eyes of the writer and a literature teacher. The Hobbit and How to Read Literature Like a Professor connect to each other in various of ways.

How can three different types of fantasy books have so much in common? In the books The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, mentors play a key role throughout the novel by helping the protagonists succeed on their journeys.

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling is a magical story about a boy who set on a heroic journey to save his home. Along the way he shows great heroism, courage, and natural intelligence as he navigates his way through Hogwarts and it’s mystery’s. Harry Potter’s story left a mark in every audience member's heart and a permanent fondness for the magical story in their minds.

Each book has a quest inside Harry, Ron, and Hermione 's overall quest. In Harry

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, he introduces a character known as the Wife of Bath. It is her turn to tell the stories, and her tale begins discussing her past marriages in the prologue. Married five times, the Wife of Bath tells us about her own marital issues, and the way she was able to manipulate the gender roles to her own advantage. As interesting of a character as she is, I find Chaucer created the Wife of Bath to deliberately introduce the issues gender roles play in our society. I believe that the role the of the Wife of Bath in the tale was purposely written by Chaucer to twist the traditional gender roles of the time, satirizing how gender plays in society.

“Everything we read constructs us, makes us who we are, by presenting our image of ourselves as girls and women, as boys and men” – M. Fox

The theme of Chronicle of a Death Foretold that I wanted to primarily inspire my creative piece is through Márquez’s use of gender roles in Colombian society. Brooke McMahon, Cheyenne Tetzlaff and I engaged in a contemporary dance to Beyoncé’s song, Pretty Hurts. We chose the song in particular as it faces around many gender stereotypes and expectations that can be seen through women now a day, paralleling to those that we can see throughout Márquez’s text. Beyoncé’s song starts off by the question “What is your aspiration in life?” and Beyoncé responds, “My aspiration in life… would be… to be happy.”

Throughout the eras, literature has mirrored the social changes taking place in English society specifically in regards to gender roles of female characters. The Elizabethan era, which lasted from 1558 to 1603, is often referred to as the golden age by historians where many transitions in English society regarding marriage and gender took place (Ivic 110). It was a time in which wives were viewed as the property of their husbands (Ivic 110). However, every woman was expected to marry and be dependent on her husband or male relatives throughout her life (Ivic 98). Conversely, the Victorian era, which lasted from 1837 to 1901 was an era with similar social customs regarding marriage and family relations; however, there were slight ideological shifts in society which allowed for more independent women (Ledbetter 25). The Victorian society placed a greater emphasis on proper attire and etiquette of a woman. The ideal marriage still remained one in which the woman stayed at home, took care of the household and made preparations until her husband came home from work. The difference between the two eras lied in the fact that the Victorian era was an era in which it was more acceptable to value a woman’s opinion (Ledbetter 30). Both the Elizabethan and Victorian era held similar beliefs about marriage and family customs, however slight differences regarding social etiquette and increased autonomy for women played an important role in the literature written in both eras. Examples of

In Lewis Carroll’s, Alice in Wonderland, traditional gender roles are reversed by portraying women with masculine behaviors and males with qualities generally attributed to women. Where aggressive and dominating behavior is seen as masculine, and sensitive and submissive acts are considered feminine, Carroll paints a picture of a society where these qualities are switched. For instance, the Queen of Hearts is a dominating and aggressive figure who terrorizes her meek husband. While some characters seem to possess qualities that Carroll's contemporaries would consider traditional, they are in the minority and they serve the purpose of teaching Alice something about the true meaning of gender. Alice has to navigate this bizarre world to discover

Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” follows a boy named Pip through a journey of meeting new people around the town and also is considered an Orphan. There are a lot of characters that are introduced like Miss Havisham who always wears a wedding who shows up a lot in the book. Pip changes a lot through the novel with wanting to be a gentlemen but has made a lot of mistakes and blames it on his sister Mrs. Joe who raised him by hand. The women seem to be different from the men in this novel with different roles they play so I’m going to show they are different.

Lyra is treated and acts differently around the Gyptians and the people living at Jordan. This is due to the two types of people she has been raised by, Gyptians and the people living at Jordan College, which includes the Master, scholars, and servants along with a few others such as librarians and cooks. Gyptians are water people and spend a lot of their time in boats on the rivers and canals of England. They are not very sophisticated and do not spend a lot of time on education. On the other hand, people living at Jordan take more pride in their education and most of them are very intelligent with many years of schooling under their belt. These differences in how the two types of people live causes differences in how they treat and act around