The second section features the women of the play Margaret, Elizabeth and his mother the Duchess of York interacting with each other; however in Act 4 where they are interacting together they all mostly join in venting about their hatred for Richard. As women, Miner informs us that they have even less power thanks to Richard’s growing tyranny but they still join together and curse the latter altogether. To her, she inferred that even though Richard subverted them that the real affect comes from the “emotional solidity” that the women provided (Miner 266). The point she is making is that when the focus shifts towards the female, the readers are allowed to see and feel the human emotions that they display, rather than just the brute, cunning …show more content…
Act 4 was perhaps the only act that was mostly dedicated to the females since they either only showed up briefly in the first 3 acts or were mentioned by other male characters. In this act the way they were cursing Richard and talking bad about him behind his back reminds me of the way many females gossip together. Richard III is certainly not like the movie Mean Girls, but the way they were badmouthing Richard behind his back, in my opinion resembled the way the eponymous girls in the movie had spoken or talked bad about their friends behind their backs. Richard was certainly not their friend in this, but in this scenario he’s the ‘Regina George’ of the play, an “evil dictator” and so naturally, when he’s not present he is the main discussion of the women (Mean Girls). As I read section 2, I thought that the women’s cursing of Richard and Miner’s insistence on women being able to exert the emotional impact of the play makes sense. For two reasons: Women are often to talk amongst each other to “voice concerns about others to their peers” (Rawi) and they are also known for talking “about what they are thinking and feeling” (TheHopeLine). From my own experience and based on proven fact that women are more emotional, I understood Miner’s point because in movies, plays or books women can be depended on for an emotional scene because they are capable of displaying such human
The theme of gender is presented to the audience as dramatic irony as well, since this play was written in 1912, the play shows how women were in that certain period of time, they didn’t have as many rights, they weren’t treated equally with men, in fact they were seen to be lower than men. However in the time that this play was written which is 1945 women had a lot more rights due to the fact that when men left the country for war, which according to Mr.Birling wasn’t supposed to happen, all the women were the people who looked after the country and kept it going, women became more interdependent and the society just grew and became a lot more open minded with their thoughts. JB Priestly has tried to show the importance of women in the play as well in the play as well at some places but very indirectly, like in that part where the inspector says, “There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence in every city and big towns in this
Tragedy and comedy are used in the film Mean Girls to allow viewers to learn a new meaning about the characters and the plot of the film.
Deception, as well as their relationship, is crucial to the overall plot. The character of Lady Anne has crucial dramatic functions within the play because her character supports Richard’s growing reputation of manipulating and morally wrong motives. When she is seduced by Richard, it shows his success at manipulation, which eventually does fail in the later acts of the play.
I kind of got the vibe that the women were just prizes for the men and each one were forced and obligated to marry someone or be killed. I felt like they were just entertainers and objects and not human beings with feelings, emotions and brain cells. For example Helena's horrible spaniel speech ( Act 2 Scene 1, 1. 202). For obvious reasons this would clearly offend people and stir up a good old riot. But again it wasn’t his interest to entertain the women it was a target audience of higher class men but still wanted everybody to be happy so he just slapped together an apology hoping everyone would be
In the play, he also insulted Queen Gertrude by having the (player) Queen say that women are distrusting and discomforting to the (player) King when she says “That I distrust you. Yet though I distrust, discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must.” She also tells how women only re-marry for money and not for love and when a remarried woman kisses her new husband it is like killing the first husband all over again when she says “The instances that second marriage move are base respects of thrift, but none of love. A second time I kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed.” The whole kingdom is watching this play making the Queen question whether the audience will realize it’s meant to be the actual King and
In Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, the historical context of the play is dominated by male figures. As a result, women are relegated to an inferior role. However, they achieve verbal power through their own discourse of religion and superstition. In the opening speech of Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 1-30 Lady Anne orients the reader to the crucial political context of the play and the metaphysical issues contained within it (Greenblatt, 509). Lady Anne curses her foes, using strong language to indicate her authority. She speaks in blank verse, by which she utilizes imagery to emphasize her emotions and reinforce her pleas. Her speech clearly illustrates the distinction between the
"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I
The movie Mean Girls is set in a high school setting. The movie starts with a new girl coming to the school as a first time public school student. Cady, the new student, is immediately accepted into a group of friends, but later invited to another. The first clique she joins pushes her to become friends with the second group. This subsequently led to a typical high school drama scene. The ways these high school students go about their normal life seem very alike to the “typical” high school. Even though the movie Mean Girls by Mark Waters, uses humor to portray some questionable realism, it effectively depicts characteristics of ordinary high school life and uses realistic characters.
The most prominent woman figure in this play is Linda, but the male characters in this play also give us insight into women’s roles and help feed the feminist analyses
During the time in which the play took place society frowned upon women asserting themselves. Women were supposed to play a role in which they supported their husbands, took care of their children,
Women in Richard III often see through his intrigues and predict dramatic consequences from his acts. Shakespeare uses the women to point out moral truths and emphasize general principles of moral and political order. Anne, Elizabeth, the Duchess and Margaret each contribute in furthering Shakespeare's moral themes in three ways: through their roles as victims, in their cries for revenge, and in alluding to a higher moral order that transcends men's actions. They represent morals in society even though they are powerless.
In life you will always have to faced many decisions that may impact your entire life. That is the case of Cady Heron, the main character of the movie “Mean Girls.'' Cady is influenced by Janis to destroy Regina George, the most popular girl in school. In order to destroy Regina, Cady and Janis make a plan on how to destroy Regina George. The three things on how Cady and Janis are going to destroy Regina are by having Regina boyfriend Aaron Samuels breakup with her then make Regina lose her hot body, and finally destroy her friendship with the plastics.
The roles of the women in the drama are significant because of the way they shape the story and help the reader understand the nature of one of the strangest events in human history. Throughout the novel, women are portrayed in many different ways. Some are shown as being good and moral people while others the complete opposite. Arthur Miller's treatment of women in this play show women as weak beings who give into their husbands. Each women in the drama plays a significant role in showing the different archetypes there were among women especially Mary Warren, Elizabeth Proctor, and Abigail Williams. In addition, Kohlberg’s Moral Stages are six developmental stages of human moral reasoning which can tie into the view in which we have of the women in the play.
The characters Hermia,Helena and Titania were effected most by the superiority role of the men in the play. This is because the men in the play, reach high circumstances to get what they what and to tell the woman what to do. Therefore, women's’ inferiority in the play makes it impossible for them to achieve true happiness attributable to the superiority the men in the play believe they
During the time in which the play took place, society frowned upon women asserting themselves. Women were expected to play a role in which they supported their husbands,