The Gorgon's Gaze Essays

Have you ever looked a gorgon in the eye? Connie Lionheart did and survived. Connie Lionheart is a courageous young girl who just so happens to be the main character in Julia Golding’s second book, The Gorgon’s Gaze in her enviromental, fantasy series, The Companions Quartet. Connie, her aunt and friends are in a rush against humanity to save mythical creatures and the environment from extinction. They are in a never ending war to stop the shape shifting creature Kullervo's from wiping out humanity

What makes people kill? Is it what people do or say? The author’s name is Roald Dahl. There are many similarities and differences between the “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “The Way Up to Heaven.” The lamb is the weapon that slaughters or kills the husband and the elevator is the highway that rides up to heaven or to death’s door. Roald Dahl intrigues readers with two distinct stories about murder that share similarities in various ways, revealing that things are not always what they seem. The stories

A film may be considered as a commercial enterprise whose business is the selling of entertainment. However, certainly it offers more than that, it tells a story, a reflection of the way a society works and how its people function in relation to ideology and culture which are constantly developing and changing. Given that, Maleficent is one of the movies which show this shifting trend, it moves from an unrealistic plot of women waiting to be saved by a man to an era of portraying women as heroes

4. Summary on “Women Detectives” by Maureen T. Reddy Introduction In this chapter, Maureen T. Reddy analyzes the development of crime fiction in the aspect of the rise of female novelists and women detectives in crime fiction through enumerating various writers with their magnum opus. Therefore, the origin of female detectives and the changes of feminist crime fiction will be summarized in this passage. Summary In the first part of this chapter, the author illustrates that female novelists

perspective as something that exposes their masculinisation. As being the subject of male gaze, women are submissive; prone to sexualization, etc. In short, women in media are subjected to visual pleasure by both men and women. Even a woman gazes at other women as they are a part of the audience of the said media. For example of male gaze is found in films such as Baywatch, 007, and many more. In the film Baywatch, male gaze is seen when one of

The Male Gaze and Objectification Theory In her highly influential essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey proposed the film theory, The Male Gaze. It refers to the way film is generally structured around a masculine viewer and how the feminine view is notably absent even when women view fellow women in film. Describing the tendency in visual culture to depict the world and women from a masculine point of view and in terms of men 's attitudes, she argues that “the most insidious

Many girls dream of their knight in shining armor, a perfect wedding, and a happily ever after ending. Disney princesses give them hope to find love and happiness along with emphasizing their want for the beauty and grace princesses illustrate. Authors of “Cinderella and Princess Culture” and “The Princess Paradox,” Peggy Orenstein and James Poniewozik respectively, agree that most girls like princesses. However, these articles convey differing parental opinions on lessons girls learn from princesses

An evaluation of Bourdieus theorys on social structure in relation to the Teddy Boys of 1950s- 1960s Britain. This essay is a discussion of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological report on French culture, La Distinction(1979). The book is based on the author’s empirical research from 1963 until 1968. In the US the book was published as Distinction: A social critique of the Judgement of taste(1984). I would like to investigate how relevant Bourdieu’s theories are in relation to the sub- culture of Teddy

audience a closer look, rather than looking at coldly. The image of woman in her photo is not clear, they disappeared in the space, is no longer a male gaze or peep at a woman 's body, it is a state of using "disappear" new to highlight their own sense of the female body, confused the boundary of fuzzy state, reduce the likelihood of women by men gaze, literally, but also give female body another possibility and development space. Those women is to refuse, romantically disappear, they are not able

There are many ideas as to what makes a feminist icon. Samantha Brennan discusses about a childhood female character that represents feminism and a body-confident role model. In her article "Miss Piggy's Feminism, Redefining Human Relationships through Martial Arts" Brennan creates an educational diction through viewing how Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show has the potential to be a feminist icon. Writing with a proud and didactic tone throughout her article, she shows how Miss Piggy's character is

Name Instructor Course Date Analysis of Sisterhood Redemption through unity in The Color Purple shows ways in which sisterhood can produce and reinforce newly-formed unions between women, resulting in a sense of autonomy and independence. Sisterhood offers women the chance to gain self-discovery and the capacity to define their lives and sexuality. Alice Walker give power to the female characters via female bonding, which enables them to discover their talents. It is imperative to notice that

Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, Villette (1853), tells the story of Lucy Snowe, our narrator, who is particularly unforthcoming with information about herself and as a result, characters like Headmistress Madame Beck and Lucy’s eventual lover, M. Paul Emanuel, resort to spying on Lucy in order to learn more about her. Lucy Snowe, too, uses surveillance to learn more about the people she is with. It’s important to acknowledge these moments of surveillance because “there are more than 175 occasions

Indeed, these were what influenced Sherman to create the Film Stills series. Sherman was also influenced by the stereotypes of women as beheld by men. Her works comment on the “male gaze”; especially evident in classical art before the 19th century, women were never portrayed as different individuals, the focus was always on their roles or how men see them. According to society, women are either innocent, sexual or the mother. Sherman

She applies this idea to the fact that ‘the determining male gaze projects its phantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly’, but not necessarily represent her accurately. Whoever holds the dominant position of power can represent the oppressed masses however they choose, regardless of the strength

In Laura Mulvey’s article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” she writes about the relationship between voyeurism, cinema, and gender. She begins by describing the concept of scopophilia, which means to gain pleasure from looking. She writes that scopophilia is inherently active/masculine, and that pleasure is derived from looking at other people as mere objects. On the other hand, the passive/feminine is derived from the experience of being looked at (pg.188). Mulvey sees this binary relationship

A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person. Women have often been discriminated and said to be less strong, less intelligent and less capable than men. However, in the novel The Da Vinci Code written by Dan Brown it portrays women to have a very strong hold in detective work, history and life. This is evident through the character Sophie Neveu, history behind symbols and symbolism throughout art work. Women have not gotten the credit they

In this essay, masculinity and femininity is discussed, as well as the understanding of masculinity within femininity. According to the English Dictionary, femininity is the quality of being female, and it is the quality of womanliness. And masculinity is the possession of qualities traditionally associated with men. Female genitalia represents femininity, although, femininity can be represented through body language and personal preference. And the same goes for masculinity. One can choose to be

The oil painting “Temptation of Saint Hilarion” by Octave Tassaert was painted in 1857. When examining this art for the first time, the viewer is thrown into a world of color and emotion. As our eyes grow accustomed to the image, we start to understand the message behind the madness. In the next few paragraphs, we will analyze Tassaert work by looking in depth at the form, technique of the subject matter and the historical elements behind them. To begin, the art piece, “Temptation of Saint Hilarion”

Let us start with a quote by one of the most prominent French writers and most important figures in the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir – “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” I personally think that this is the single-most appropriate way that best describes how feminism is a social construct which means that the roles that are associated with women, or those that are assigned to them, are not given by biological nature, but are actually defined by social norms, and history. Feminism

The Reversal of the Gaze: The Disruption of Power Dynamics through the Male Gaze in Mad Men In Mad Men, the world of the office operates in the context of the male gaze in the sense that the rules established for the performances and behaviors of men and women are gendered male. As a result of these rules, women are expected to display themselves for the pleasure of men and act in a submissive role whereas men are supposed to offer women some sort of sexualized attention and take on the role of the