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Masculinity In Ang Lee

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Landscape and setting are also used to narrate the development of Ennis and Jack’s relationship. Ang Lee is able to give a sense of attachment and romanticized the landscape to the viewers with an amount of paradox it contains. Jack and Ennis encounters mostly occurs in this private natural space, yet they are being repressed to hide their love in their heteronormative life. Nature in the film, somehow relates to this character’s freedom of how they are able to be truly in love and free from societies within a specific space. However, the landscape seen in the film is a indication of the traction between deceit towards society, families and the realism they face with love, specifically the rural west which seeks to protect itself from the homosexuality based on the negative views of the society. …show more content…

In particular, Childress, Texas, the town of Jack’s marital home is representative of an oppressive, hegemonic society in which Jack is marginalized due to his failed rodeo career and flamboyant attitudes. The settings of family and community in the life of Brokeback Mountain present parallels what typically used in classic Westerns adopted to employ themes of masculine in societal settings. Ang Lee applies the traditional constructs of masculinity in the context of a contemporary Western, to convey the protagonists as marginalized males, who instead of seeking control and power within domestic settings, in fact view, them as an unnatural environment in which they are forced to act in accordance to the conventional role of masculinity from which they can only find escape in the

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In Stagecoach, the prostitute and outlaw Dallas and Ringo defy society’s definition of what it means to be a “bad guy” versus a “good guy.” Each is a victim of circumstance having lost their families to murderers. Through their actions both together and apart, they prove to be good people. This illustrates that society judges people by their jobs, not by their characters. This shows that the movie makers think civilization is bad.

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Ed and Ches both embody traditional masculinity as seen through their rash and bravado-driven actions. As Ed hears of a fight amongst men he does not know, his ego quickly causes him to intervene and fight three men on his own. As the men agree to his challenge, “three Tollivers were down and dead, and Ed Lowe was dying”, (44) an indication of the horrific outcomes of egotistic masculinity as it was Ed’s ego and his reckless challenge that caused his death. Even after being shot, Ed’s ego maintains control over him as he states, “‘We got ‘em. […] we sure did.

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The readers can imagine the vivid landscape of the wild that Jack London describes in detail because he does such a good job at it. The beginning of the novel shows the most insight to London’s work of nature. London describes the importance of raw nature and its beauty and impact on life. This is what gets McCandless into the nature, and it influences him a lot to live by his words and the philosophies. London does a good job in describing in depth of how the wilderness looks like, going in detail to it.

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Individuals are consistently pressured by gender expectations within societies, predominantly in rural towns during the 1960’s. Silvey’s utilisation of characterisation and point of view of Charlie Bucktin presents the traditional gender roles in Jasper Jones, set in Australia during the 1960’s. As Charlie prepares himself to set foot on a journey with Jasper Jones, he noted his appearances and display of femininity: “…the application of pansy footwear, is my first display of girlishness… I jog back with as much masculinity as I can muster, which even in the moonlight must resemble something of an arthritic chicken.” This excerpt shows that Charlie is challenged by Corrigan’s gender expectation of masculinity.

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Rita Mae Brown once said, “I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” What she meant by this was that defining that society should not define you, and explaining that you’re often driven to despair if you conform to the societal norms. Annie Proulx’s novel, Brokeback Mountain and Andre Dubus’ The Fat Girl proves this concept by portraying the protagonists as characters who are despondent throughout their journey and in a constant battle with themselves, trying to avoid the thing they love for an acceptance in society. In Brokeback Mountain, Ennis is portrayed as a perplexed character, unsure of his love for Jack as it is characterized as an iniquitous deed.

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Richard Ford’s short story “Communist” is a commentary on the many ways American culture has evolved since the time of the American West. Ford primarily alludes to the West and its influence on modern American culture through the setting, themes of family, manhood, and hunting, and various symbols, including geese, olive trees, and Glen’s car. By juxtaposing Western storytelling elements with modern social problems, Ford analyzes how Americans have perverted and misapplied traditional cowboy masculinity and how that misapplication has negatively impacted modern society. Several themes Ford examines through a modern lens were social issues that Americans were concerned with during the time of the American West. For example, Ford portrays stereotypes of hunting as a masculine activity and contrasts Les’ mother’s emotional reactions as a feminine experience.

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Nature is shown in this manner, because it causes one to be completely isolated as they will be able to find their ultimate freedom with themselves. One can find their true identity and realize that materials do not make them the person they are, it is the experiences they encounter. McCandless’s journey into the wilderness shows that he was ready to change the way he was living and his surroundings. Changing his lifestyle, and going by another name, shows that he was rejecting the values forced upon him by his parents’, and that he wants to start creating values for himself. Nature played a huge part in allowing McCandless to reach his ultimate freedom by serving as a character itself.

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Associating the tool used to kill the poor man with the homophobic hate crime committed against him, Ennis’ exclamation that “they got him with the tire iron” communicates his understanding that Jack may have been attacked for his sexuality. Believing that Jack’s death may not have been an accident, Ennis demonstrates his acknowledgment of homophobia’s presence throughout society. While Ennis acknowledges that Jack may have been killed because of his sexuality, he “tries to believe” that it was just an accident, wishing that the world was different. A gay man himself, Brokeback Mountain is the first and only place that Ennis and Jack are able to openly express their sexuality because, perceiving that it is “only the two of them” (5), they have no one to hide their relationship from and no one to judge them. On Brokeback, Ennis illustrates “the two of them on the mountain flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking

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The scene has a character-like presence. It culminates Ennis’s emotional state over the loss of his lover Jack. We feel the character presence of Jack in spirit from his belongings. This provides the viewer a window into Jack’s

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Introduction In the Western world, majority of the movies are normally preoccupied with the notion of masculinity that depict men as being the dominant gender with roles requiring them to exhibit male behavior, such as providing for family and fighting, while the women the inferior gender with roles requiring them to exhibit female behavior, such as supporting the husband despite his shortcomings. Anne Lee in his modern Western movie Brokeback Mountain (IMDb, 2015) represents masculinity in different relationships: masculinity as depicted by men who want to be in a relationship with women and masculinity as depicted by men who want to be in the same-sex relationship. In this movie opinions divide significantly concerning masculinity especially when looking at Ennis and Jack who are two gay cowboys trying to be in a secret homosexual relationship. In what follows, we will examine the representation of relationships of traditional Western masculinity in the movie

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