The Blue Angel Gender Roles

Lola experiences a period of change in her life where she felt the need to alter her physical appearance to create a new identity because she did not like being the perfect Dominican girl for Beli. She says, “I looked at the girl in the mirror for a long time. All I knew was that I didn’t want to see her ever again… So now you’re punk? Karen asked uncertainly. Yes, I said” (Díaz 59). Lola is not comfortable with her life in Paterson, New Jersey and her identity as a young Dominican female, which comes with the responsibility of upholding their societal standards to please her mother. A woman’s hair in the Dominican Republic is a symbol of her beauty, and removing her hair shows her refusal of the beauty standards set in place by the men in society who determine what makes a woman beautiful. Her mother’s visceral response to her decision to cut her hair proves how deep-rooted the beliefs that a woman’s beauty is dependent on her physical appearance is in Dominican culture. Díaz writes, “The next day my mother threw the wig at me. You’re going to wear this. You’re going to wear it every day. And if I see you without it on I’m going to kill you!” (Díaz 59). Beli, like most other Dominican women, is conditioned to believe that the level of attention they receive from a man is a reflection of their beauty. She fears that Lola will embarrass her by disowning the values and ideas she upholds about a woman’s

She basically starts to have a life which is not stable and no option to with grow compassion of family members. Yunior, who is the narrator also is mentioned in the book. Even though there is not much information about him, he reveals himself in Chapter 4 saying “It started with me” (167). Even though, Yunior is a guy who is not really determined about one single girl, I believe his turning point was meeting with Lola. He describes his situation by saying “at college you’re not supposed to care about anything-- you’re just supposed to fuck around--- but believe it or not, I cared about Lola.

He later meets Lola, becomes slightly interested in her, then proceeds to leave the beer hall. When Professor Rath later gets married to Lola, he naively continues to love her, but Lola cannot. Professor Rath is trapped in a marriage where he gives but cannot take (such as with Lola never reciprocating). As stated, Rath believed he was in love with Lola and continued to do so until the climactic scene with Lola and the strongman; whereas Lola merely believed it was a love filled by infatuation and as a result took none of the blame for what transpired. Finally, Rath later becomes trapped within himself at the peak of creating his own downfall. He originally become more infatuated with Lola the more he continued to see her, eventually giving up the security of his former life for one he had no prior knowledge of. Professor Rath is constantly subject to humiliation through Lola and the troupe— Lola, although married, remains cold to him; Kiepert, the Magician and ringleader of the troupe, demands he sells photos of Lola to help the troupe make profits; all the while they continually question of whether Rath is useful to them at

It is for this reason that the producer of a text targets a specific audience demographic and tailors the text in order to position this specific audience to accept the preferred meaning. For this reason, audiences from other contexts may read the text in a wildly different manner. For example, in Run Lola Run, viewers from a feminist subculture might look beyond the codes that Tykwer has used to position them to see Lola as a representative of feminine power, and feel that she is a poor role model for contemporary females. This alternative reading could be formed because of Lola’s subservience to Manni, and her unquestioning loyalty to him from the very beginning of the movie, despite little effort on his part to save himself. Furthermore, in all three of the film’s realities, Lola’s first source that she seeks for help is a patriarchal figure, her father, in this way demonstrating her overall helplessness despite her appearance of having power. In this way, audience members may form an extreme feminist reading of the text, and thus resist the reading that Tykwer is positioning them to accept. Another alternative reading that may be formed of the text, is that it is offering a misandristic portrayal of the male characters within the film. The audience is positioned to see Manni, Lola’s father and the security guard from the bank, the three males with the

At the beginning of the story, Lola is a very daughter to her mother Belicia de Leόn, this however quickly changes after it is discovered that Belicia has breast cancer. As this event acts as a catalyst to separate and destroy the relationship between them as Lola’s healthiness becomes a point of contention between them due to the declining health of her mother. On the subject of Society vs Freedom that relationship is reflected by the seeming obligation that is placed upon Lola by her mother after she had her cancer treatment. As after Belicia was diagnosed, Lola was beginning to explore her freedom by becoming a “punk chick” and seemingly out of spite for how she and her brother were treated by their ailing mother who was notorious within the town that they resided within as demonstrated when Lola had decided to shave her head and her friend Karen’s only response was, “What about your mother?” (Diaz 418).

It seemed Lola just had that phase of rebellion upon her. One specific example of conformity that was used by Lola’s mother was when Lola cut all of her hair off to make a statement and her mother shouts, “You're going to wear this.  You're going to wear it every day.   And if I see you without it on I'm going to kill you!”

In “The Story of an Hour”, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and “Trifles”, the authors all question the institution of marriage through the emerging theme of the oppression of women. In each of these works, women are shown trapped in confining marriages. While marriage is supposed to be seen as one of the most beautiful and perfect sanctities life has to offer, these authors portray it as more of a bittersweet agony that women are forced to endure. Chopin, Gilman, and Glaspell use a combination of symbolism and perspective in their literature to bring about this theme of female oppression. With this theme, the authors cause the readers to take a more feminist perspective and question the institution of marriage through the eye of the average housewife of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Throughout the beginning of the chapter Lola is portrayed as a horrible daughter who rebels against her mother who is dying of cancer. However, when Lola finally gets to speak up for her actions it is finally understood that Lola rebel because of her mother constant emotional abuse. Also, as Lola started speaking her own voice it was clear that her mother made her do everything. She was the one “cooking, cleaning doing the wash, buying groceries, writing letters to the bank to explain why a house payment was going to be late, translating” (Diaz, 56). Lola was forced to be an adult at a young age she did everything and she was even a mother to her little brother Oscar. I think Diaz was as successful in creating a female narrative voice as he is the male one because when reading the novel one can differentiate from the text what gender the character

Men and women and their actions, thoughts, and behaviours have been at the centre and focal point in several types of literature. The relationships between one another have been portrayed in various ways, each one representing each gender differently. The representation of women has been a common and controversial subject. The female gender roles depicted in each time period have always been present in literature throughout history. These traditional female roles that society has placed on women have not always been evident. Even with different time periods, there has always been a break in the traditional female roles. Traditional female roles have

She was someone to not like in this musical. During the musical Rizzo's character has to kiss another character named Kenickie multiple times. When the girl who played this role was making out with the guy, it was far too intense. It was disturbing to watch and there was a desire for it to stop immediately. While she was kissing this man, her eyes were all over the audience, sometimes staring in one direction.

The role and strength of women in a male-dominated society in biblical times is the fundamental theme of The Red Tent. The red tent is a physical and spiritual place, where the women of Jacob’s tribe—his wives, servants and daughters, could rest while menstruating and childbearing, but more importantly, it became a safe shelter for feminist unity and companionship. The red tent provides all the women a haven to be in their power together, to learn from one another, to be part of a community, and to celebrate their lives without any disturbance from the male chauvinism. In the “red tent”, women such as Leah, Dinah and Rachel are able to play critical and decisive roles—protectors, friends and teachers. First and foremost, there is much

In todays world it is not hard to find a woman in any role in society, however this was not always the case. In time periods previous to this, the role of women was quite different than it is in today’s world. What is now equality and power was once seclusion and degradation towards women of society. Over the course of time the role of women has changed dramatically, and the plays Antigone by Sophocles, Trifles by Susan Glaspell and The Doll House by Henrik Ibsen are great works that show how women can challenge the boundaries that were put on them by a society that was not very accepting of feminism.

The character of Nora goes through the dramatic transformation of a kind and loving housewife, to a desperate and bewildered woman, whom will ultimately leave her husband and everything she has known. Ibsen uses both the characters of Torvald and Nora to represent the tones and beliefs of 19th century society. By doing this, Ibsen effectively creates a dramatic argument that continues to this day; that of feminism.

Through their works, Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf were able to portray a certain relationship between women and society. While some literary pieces are optimistic towards women, others are not. In this case, The Awakening, a novella written by Kate Chopin, focuses on the inner battle that the main character Edna faces throughout her life. On the other hand, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, discusses ideas related to gender inequality. Both women seem to be facing inner turmoil that correlates back to the relationship between women and society during these time periods. Ultimately, their experiences are what drives them to change how they fit into societal norms. Therefore, the texts in this essay theorize the relationship between women and society in a way that can be encouraging towards women.

At the end of 19th century, American society presented an ideology of patriarchy. Feminists struggle for the equality and discrimination against female. As feminist movement started, lots of female writers were explored. One of the most famous writers is Kate Chopin. Her works mostly present a theme of women pursue freedom and equality. “The Story Of An Hour” and “The Awakening” are her representative works. In these two works, Kate Chopin reveals how women lived under the oppression of male-dominated society, especially for women who got married. They were not financially independent and their freedom and rights were deprived. Therefore female were forced to be an “angle in the home”. Both challenge the preconception that women can only be a housekeeper and marriage is the only way out.