Representation of Gender in Prime Suspect: Helen Mirren's Character

As Helen is influenced by the social expectation, she takes the traditional role of women; she symbolizes the powerless housewife mentions in “Doing Gender”. According to “Doing Gender”, it is stated that “[the traditional role of] women would be primarily focused on housekeeping, childcare, and children’s education...Further, in the case of conflict, the man

Deborah Tannen focuses on this concept of the markedness of women in her essay “There Is No Unmarked Woman” and her interview in She Said He Said. Here, she explores the idea of how linguistics, appearances, and actions can indicate one as a certain type of woman. Her claims are validated not only by examples present in our everyday lives and literature, but also through film. The infamous Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove or:

Prime examples of characters who refuse to conform to society’s gender roles are Tita from Like Water for Chocolate, Julia in her poem “To Julia de Burgos”, and Oscar from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. These characters have to face gender roles

Moreover, the manhood acts in the film actively maintain the gender inequality present. The purpose of the acts is to be accepted by other as being in the “dominant gender group” (Schrock and Schwalbe 149). This demonstrates how sex and gender are different things. Sex is whether you are biologically male or female, but gender deals with how you behave such as masculine or feminine. These manhood acts can actually be seen

Still, the “literal” viewing of a film nevertheless has an empirical practicality; watching a film is irrefutably a visual experience. Additionally, as Devereaux illustrates, there is a damaging objection to the literal/figurative distinction: men, like women, do not merely “look.” Their looking “mimics a particular way of thinking about and acting in the world” (654). Of course, this raises the question of how the “figurative” way of seeing which we deem “male” translates to film. It also inclines us to question in what ways women are represented from the male viewpoint.

of women and men. Vertov showed the film with an equality of the sexes. Both

Compare and contrast the presentation of gender in two films we have looked at on the course

     I have thought about many different ways to organize this paper and have come to the conclusion that the best way to approach the topic is on a book-by-book basis. My perceptions of the gender biases in these books vary greatly and I did not want to begin altering my views on each so that they would fit into certain contrived connections. What interests me most in these stories is how the authors utilize certain character’s within their given environment. Their instincts and reactions are a wonderful window into how the authors perceive these “people” would interact with their surroundings and often are either rewarded or punished by the author through consequences in the plot for

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

The biggest challenge while researching and writing this paper was strictly presenting scholastic and objective arguments in order to avoid bias and reduce critics’ opportunity to discredit or delegitimize my work, especially those who oppose feminism. Presenting a rebuttal statement and then counteracting it with more critical arguments of how that specific repudiation is problematic, acknowledges critical audiences’ concerns while remaining adamantly strong in my stance. I was conscious to pay the respected attention to detail when selecting rhetoric language as it conveys the appropriated tone and mood of the paper to the reader as it represents the film. Just as typical research papers require, my primary source, The Little Mermaid, is immediately and easily identifiable within the paper, and unlike most scholarly works, the analyzed topic is the primary source itself. However, the problematic dynamics the film presents based on the sexist theme it poses, may be too broad and largely based without adequately supportive and specified examples from the film. This was another one of the concerns I had when I first began to construct my paper because there were so many different examples of female

Propaganda is biased information that is spread around by people who want to support one political view. It is believed by many that propaganda is what makes people believe one thing. As Eric Hoffer once said,”propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” Propaganda spreads information and is thought to be what tricks people into believing rumors. When someone uses propaganda, they are not tricking the people, it is the people listening to the lies being said and tricking themselves into thinking it.

The Cloud Gate that is also called The Bean, is the best attraction in the Chicago city. As so many tourists come from different region of world to visit the Chicago city, they see that shiny bean as a selfie place. The bean is in Millennium Park which is open from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. with free admission. The visitors traveling can get to the park using primary Chicago public transportations either bus or subway. Using CTA, one can take red line subway train to Randolph and from there it is a short walk. The bean is the centerpiece of AT&T plaza at millennium park, and it get extremely busy in weekends. It is surrounded by huge tall building which are reflected on the bean by various shapes. As people go around the city, they see different sculptures all around, but some people think that the Cloud Gate is the Chicago’s icon. The tourist does not miss to see that icon because it 's a place for taking memorable pictures and looking at the skyline of the Chicago city on the bright Bean.

The first research entitled “The representation of gender roles in the media - An analysis of gender discourse in Sex and the City movies ” was constructed by Therese Ottosson and Xin Cheng in 2012.

I have always dreamt of a day where I wake up and I am excited to go to work at a place where I feel that I make a difference. My education will do just that; it will provide a better quality of life for me and my family. Graduating from college will allow me to financially support my parents when they can no longer support themselves. With my education, I also hope to set an example to my siblings, cousins, and all minorities. I want them to know that I was able to graduate from college regardless of the adversities I had to face, proving that they can accomplish as much as I have accomplished and much more.

The presentation of women on screen is another highlighted issue in many of the gathered sources. Because men were ultimately in control of what went on the screen much of what the audience perceived were women from the male imagination or fantasy. Bernard Beck elaborates in his article Where the Boys Are: The Contender and other Movies about Women in a Man’s World that, “…women have been used to dress up a male story or motivate a male character” (Beck 15). Women were often insignificant and trivial characters. Although, Kathe Davis disagrees to a point. In her article, Davis offers a dissonant opinion to the fore-mentioned insignificance of the female character. She instead describes many female characters as “predators,” and analyzes the roles of lead women in three prominent films of the nineteenth century. In each film, she finds parallels and similarities of cases of “female emasculation” and instances where “women are turned into objects of male desire” (Davis 47-48). Davis does not perceive female characters as being insignificant, just stripped of their power and misrepresented. She discusses how females of power are often portrayed as crazy