Research Paper On Breakfast At Tiffany's

The woman’s role in society had many changes during the era of WWII to the baby boom era. It went from the strong independent woman that can work in a factory to a house wife that takes care of the family to the final slightly dominant, but still dependent female. All of these different feminine mystiques were changed because of society and through indirect propaganda in TV shows and

In the 1960’s, women had been placed in stereotypical roles for years. But women were tired of these roles and were done with being complacent. They felt like something was missing in their lives, and they desired something more. The typical American

This play was written in the 1940’s way before the women’s rights movement which happened in the 1960’s. Hence the reason why the characters and the relationships between them were overlooked due to it being within the norm. Now by analyzing Tennessee's work, what can now be seen is how sexist this play actually is. Looking through the eyes of Stella you can see how she played into the female

Also, these women had a different point of view in regards to the sexual life. They learn to love and be passionate about their husbands. Passion is important to them since they don’t spend much time with their husbands otherwise. That was probably not the case with most American women in the 1950’s when husbands and wives didn’t even share a bed.

Women of the 1950’s through the 1960’s are ridden with male oppression and self-esteem issues. The book Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates and an episode of Mad Men titled The Shoot have a lot in common. The differences and similarities between the leading women in both of these stories from the 1950’s show that times are different today. The women of the 1950’s had a dream for the future and their dream has finally become a reality for American women. From Mad Men, Betty Draper’s dream of becoming a model and in Revolutionary Road, April Wheeler’s dream of traveling the world are actual realities for women today. Their dreams show similarities, differences and the “American Dream” that every woman has.

The iconic coming-of-age movie The Breakfast Club, focuses on the development of five, seemingly very different high school students. In the movie we are presented with the five main characters all with stereotypes that they identify with. Claire is the princess or the beauty queen, John, often referred to by his last name “Bender,” is the criminal, Brian is the brain or the nerd, Andrew, is the athlete, a wrestler , and finally Allison is the basket case or the weirdo. The story is set in saturday detention where they are forced to spend eight hours with people from other cliques that they would normally never interact with. The day progresses and the characters interact with one another, smoke, dance, break rules, and reveal very personal parts of themselves with the others. The story ends with some of the characters making an attempt to change their identity with the realization that even with the boxes they have been put into they are not that different from one another.

Breakfast at Tiffany's revolves around a young woman, Holly Golightly, trying to discover her identity by embracing her femininity and sexuality. Smith's article Chasing the Same Rainbow's End: The Meaning and Narrative Function of 'Moon River' employs metaphors to "examine how Breakfast establishes a contextual link between music and femininity by fusing together the two contradictory sides of Holly's personality, her romanticism and sexual predation " (83). The diegetic in this film, whether it be diegetic sound or non-diegtic sound, is important in the development of the narrative because, as Smith states, "all cues in Breakfast are narratively motivated, and even those that are included largely to add variety to the soundtrack serve very

The 1960’s era consisted of many developmental events, one of them being the evolution of gender equality. During the 1960’s women started fighting for equality and they actually gained some things such as the right to vote. Although the gender inequality gap grew smaller it was and is still very substantial. In the novel The House on Mango Street, these gender disparities are very easy to see through Sally, one of the various characters in the book.

Women during this time period didn’t have the same expectations as men, this is shown in “The Hike” when Alex can’t go camping with local kids because of work and Donna steps up and wants to take them, but people say she is too fragile for camping and laugh at her. This shows that people think that women are less capable than men, and that they aren’t expected to do things that men can do. This is also shown in “Pardon My Gloves” when Jeff is being bullied and Donna is trying to teach him how to fight from a book, and Alex says that you can't learn to fight from a book, but from someone with experience. This also goes with the idea that women are fragile and peaceful people. Another expectation for women is that they stop schooling at high school, which is why only 5.2% of women completed four years of college (“Percentage of the U.S. Population Who Have Completed Four Years of College or More From 1940 to 2014, By Gender” 4). Usually women after they left school would get married a couple years later, the average age for women to get married was 22.8 and men would get married at 20.3 (“Median Age at First Marriage, 1890-2010” 1). When people would get married, they thought that it is a disgrace to get a divorce, which is why the divorce rate on average 2.6% throughout the 1950s and 2.2% in 1960s (“Marriage and Divorce, 1900-2012”

“We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.” This is a quote from one of the main characters from this film. This film is an older one and came out in the year, 1985. It centers around five high school students who spend their Saturday in detention. Each of the five students signifies a stereo type, that are displayed in schools. The characters are John who is known as the criminal, Claire as the princess, Andrew known as the athlete or jock, Brian as the brain/nerd, and lastly, Allison is known as the basket case. We are also introduced to Richard Vernon the school principal and Carl the janitor. It helps us to remember that no matter how I may observe a student to be, there could be a very good chance, there will be some darker parts that are just waiting to be shared with others, they could be just waiting for someone to ask.

“Oscars So White” a phrase that began trending on social media sites after the 2016 Academy Awards announce their nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress, it was predominately white for a second year in a row. The movie industry is no stranger to controversy and since its inception it’s constantly been guilty of underrepresenting ethnic people. It’s evident that film is a type of mass media that has a certifiable amount of power to influence audience’s views, yet this platform constantly disregards the need for diversity in favor of stereotypes. Movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Scarface (1983), and Pan (2015) are all guilty of this. The depiction of non-American characters in Hollywood movies are constructed around racial

One important similarity between Pretty Woman and Breakfast at Tiffany’s is their attraction. In Pretty Woman, Vivian is a Los Angeles prostitute with her lifestyle and a need to pay her rent meets Edward Lewis, a wealthy, a successful businessman on Hollywood Boulevard to ask for directions. She was willing to assist him, and

Audrey Hepburn’s rise to fame was very slow. After World War II ended, when Audrey was fifteen, she and her mother moved to London. There she studied on a ballet scholarship and worked part-time as a model. Soon, she started playing little parts in British movies and taking acting classes. While filming her first good role, “Monte Carlo Baby” the famous French author of Gigi, Collette, discovered her. Audrey went on to play Gigi in the Broadway play, on November 24, 1951, which had a successful run of six months.

What do Betty from "Pleasantville," June from "Leave it to Beaver," and Donna Reed from "The Donna Reed Show" all have in common? They all represent the image of the perfect housewife in the 1950s. They represent women who gladly cooked, cleaned, dressed in pearls and wore high heals while waiting for their all-knowing husbands to come home. They represent women who can only find fulfillment in male domination and nurturing maternal love. Tillie Olsen, as a single mother with four children (204), provides readers with another view of women. Through the representation of the narrator in I Stand Here Ironing, Olsen contradicts the image of the 50s ideal woman, a happy housewife and a perfect mother.

Thesis Statement- in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the psychological struggle between the need for stability and the desire for freedom is perhaps the central concern of Breakfast at Tiffany's.