All About Eve

Mary Orr’s “The Wisdom of Eve” is a short, but very unpredictable story about a new life for Eve Harrington and about the individual she is perceived to be by her appearance however, the true identity of Eve that is hidden within is projected throughout the story. The narrator of this story opens up with “I shall call her Eve Harrington because this is not her name, though the Eve part of the alias is not unapt, considering the original’s snaky activities in a once-peaceful garden” (Orr 284). Eve Harrington made her way to stardom but in a very unusual way. Eve Harrington’s “idol” Margola Cranston and Cranston’s closes friend who narrates the story are of the few people who fell for Eve’s manipulative ways. Eve is describe an awkward and unappealing

Although Eve herself isn’t evil, she does bring upon herself the knowledge of evil because she ate the fruit from the forbidden tree. Cathy employs the knowledge of evil and sin when she takes advantage of the wicked side of humanity that people find shameful that deals with sexual tendencies and drug abuse. When she met Mr. Edward, an owner of a brothel, she takes the fact that he is totally smitten by her and uses that to make him fear her because he is scared to lose Cathy. She gradually stole money from him and thought that she would get away with it until he found out about her

In East of Eden, Cathy Ames is constructed to represent the incarnation of evil. In East of Eden, Cathy is portrayed as a corrupt adaptation of the biblical Eve, who is perceived by the Christian tradition as the mother of mankind. Although Eve is not described as evil, she is the one who invited evil in the world by accepting a suspicious apple from a dishonest snake. As a result, Eve is often associated with sin, but whereas Eve is deceived into committing sin, Cathy embraces it and commits evil simply as a means to inflict pain. The character is overly enticed with evil: she believes that there is only evil in the world and therefore fully commits herself to it.

Eve has been a powerful female figure throughout history and provoked so many female authors because she is depicted as the first woman, made from the rib of the first man, Adam. Since Eve was the first, and mother to all women, she was preserved to have passed on an evil nature to all women after tasting the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and asking Adam to as well. Women have invested their time in Eve’s defense by arguing that it was not the fault of Eve alone, and that if Adam was supposed the be a symbol of strength, and wisdom, then he should been able to see through Eve’s fruit and the trickery of the serpent. The story bible has been used as a symbol of oppression for women by the word of God being law in the Christian

Eve felt strange. A dull, buzzing feeling in the pit of his stomach had started up, somewhere between the end of his last battle and waiting for someone to call his name for the next round. It ate away at the adrenaline that had consumed him in the heat of the moment and demanded that he acknowledge its existence, despite not having any idea what it was. He knew emotions. Wasn't an expert in the matters, or even very good at identifying them in others, but some part of Eve had always considered his knowledge of himself as a sort of given. After all, who was he to attempt to understand other people when he couldn't even understand everything about himself?

For instance, shortly after Barb blames Janice for their mother’s death, Janice breaks her “prim and proper” (74) attitude and punches Barb in the face as she spills her feelings about their mother: “I grew up wanting to hate this woman, thinking my whole life was her fault… I was all prepared to dislike and pity some old Indian woman that lost me because of alcohol. Instead I find this wonderful, sweet, caring woman… I started to care, Barb, but I didn’t want to care” (101). Furthermore, at the end of the play, Janice finally accepts the fact that Anne is her mother that loved her which can be seen through Janice’s final words in the play to her mother’s grave: “Co-waabmen, Mom, from you daughter, Grace”

Sometimes nobody remember that eve can be harm. Everyone seems to ignore her, they called her when they were on the point of dying. She seems like a rough person and she do everything to reinforce that image. But, as everyone, she has weak spot and those were things for her impossible to admit. One of then was the fact of being ignored, to them to think she was useless.

The infamous 1950’s film All about Eve captures many of the struggles women at the time dealt with and still do today. Starring Bette Davis as Margo Channing and Anne Baxter as Eve, the theme of the hardships faced my women who are trying to make a career for themselves can quickly be inferred.

Awareness of Eve’s proximal existence threatens Margo’s personal life. Because Margo feels vulnerable due to her age obsession and the sex appeal that she notices in Eve, Margo fears to lose Bill and the place in the theater, the two most important things in her life. Such emotional disaccord causes Margo to enter emotional frenzy. As a response to ageism in the theater environment, rage proves to be her only defense against it. Understanding that men who control the theater are the ones standing behind the whole cycle or replacement, Margo unleashes her anger at Lloyd.

Since the 1940’s, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. Beginning in the 1940’s and continuing though the 1980’s, women did not have major roles in movies. When they did have a leading role the women was either pretreated as unintelligent and beautiful, or as conniving and beautiful: But she was always beautiful. Before the 1990’s, men alone, wrote and directed all the movies, and the movies were written for men. In comparison, movies of the 90’s are not only written and directed by women, but leading roles are also held by older and unattractive women. In this paper I will show the variations and growth of women’s roles in movies from the 1940’s though the 1990’s.

but he was the abuser, and Eve tried

Eve's speech affects Adam. He becomes calm, consoling her and sharing responsibility for their fall. They must stop blaming each other, he says. They must live with their mistakes and make the most out of their fallen state.

The film All About Eve, coordinated by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, represents to the universe of the theater in after the war New York. In this detached biased world, excessively enthusiastic scenes influence most capable and superior to anything and anybody. For the characters, adoration and reliability don't generally charge what a man says or does. Different qualities, for example, craving to do incredible things and wellsprings of stress and push are what now and then drive their purposes behind doing things. In any case, in this universe of acclaim and regard, the genuine winners are the individuals who have the adoration and support those people around them.

Since its humble beginnings in the later years of the nineteenth century, film has undergone many changes. One thing that has never changed is the filmmaker’s interest in representing society in the present day. For better or worse, film has a habit of showing the world just what it values the most. In recent years, scholars have begun to pay attention to what kinds of ideas films are portraying (Stern, Steven E. and Handel, 284). Alarmingly, viewers, especially young women, are increasingly influenced by the lifestyle choices and attitudes that they learn from watching these films (Steele, 331). An example of this can be seen in a popular trope of the “romantic comedy” genre in this day and age: the powerful man doing something to help, or “save” the less powerful woman, representing a troubling “sexual double standard” (Smith, Stacy L, Pieper, Granados, Choueiti, 783).

This idea is relevant because on the stage, the Restoration actress, is nothing but an ornament in the male gaze. This attitude is apparent as Thomas Shadwell links the new phenomenon of female performers with painted theatrical scenes, both innovative commodities for audience consumption: