The Role Of Women In The Movie Alice Forgets

159 Words1 Pages
In movie Alice forgets about her past experiences, and embraces her female role, of abiding to the female obedience. She is now taught the ways of being a good wife, instead of embracing her creative, but falls to the will of her soon to be husband. This makes Alice run away from him, but then finds a new male to bow to “the Hatter”. In Rich’s poem Orion she writes, “A man reaches behind my eyes and finds them empty a woman's head turns away.” Proving that behind every woman, they always a male. Alice runs away from one male counterpart to only find a new male counterpart, even leaving the Hatter to be with another male. Rich goes as far as saying, “Both the victimization and the anger experienced by women are real, and have real sources,