Analysis Of The Film ' The Novel ' Fat Girl '

Throughout the course of history, society had stereotyped women, making it merely impossible for a woman to achieve her goals and desires in life. This had weighed them not as equals, and for this, they were given different standards by which to live. At this day and age, and during the ancient Greek times, women have always been treated as second best by biased men, although today’s society has started to understand this inequality better as time progresses further into the future. Even with society becoming more equal for women, females are still treated similar as to time of the ancient Greeks. Women still don’t have as much power as men, are still “blamed” for wrongdoings and thought as untrustworthy, and are still used as “currency”

In the short story “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubis, the main character Louise is followed from the time she is nine years old up until she has her own child. Her mother ruins her self-confidence at a young age saying to her “you must start watching what you eat” (Dubus 320) when she was only nine years old. Her father is just about the only character in the story who accepts Louise for herself. “She’s a growing girl” (Dubus 321) he would say to her mother when she would limit Louise on what she could eat. Louise has dealt with an endless conflict of how other people feels she should look and eat. Louise is being opposed by society.

However, women do not retreat to acting like mere sex slaves or beautified objects that the patriarchy demands of them. Women further characterize themselves in attempting to rid themselves of their utter lack of power and influence: “Aphrodite is a simply a temptress or prostitute on a grand scale. Aphrodite, like Helen on the mortal level, uses her sexuality and value given by the female body by the male libito to get what she wants”. (Taylor). Ironically, men’s objectification of women helps affirm that they are in fact much more complex as beings, and much more intelligent. Contradicting the view of the patriarchy, where they are practically seen as imbeciles, women are crafty. They are able to capitalize on their sexualities, using it as a tool: they see it as a means to be able to satiate their own desires and moreover, gain some voice in a society that works actively to silence them. Furthermore, it is absent from the text that women are wholly unable to resist the demands of man, however, “Zeus portrays men as being at the mercy of [the desires of women], unable to resist the wiles who seduce them” (Taylor). Men are painted as inferiors to women in that unlike them, men cannot circumvent the barrier that is their libodo as has females have found ways of circumventing the patriarchy. This therefore establishes women as more superior sophisticated mentally,

In many literary examples women are in pushed to change themselves in order to be the person society expects them to be. This change was the result of constant ridicule revolving around the idea that men, in fact, are superior to women in many ways. Overtime these judgements against women have become less of an issue, however are still relevant. Women are as capable as men of being independent and valuable, but because they are subjected they still fall vulnerable to oppression by society which changes their view of themselves so they act in different ways in order to please society.

At present, women’s issues have occupied a special place in periodicals, literature and art. In spite of the fact that both international and national legislative acts proceed from the principle of equality, in practice women do not enjoy equal rights in public life. There is a noticeable contradiction between the new needs and the lack of conditions in society for their satisfaction: the social consciousness of women increases, they no longer satisfy the stereotype of social roles imposed on them, where the family and motherhood are the only values. The answer to the existing contradictions is found in the women's movements. I'm not an adherent of feminism because I do not think that now women have less rights than men. Several decades ago, there really was a division between men and women, when women were without human rights. In modern society, most women have the right to vote, the right to choose and enjoy the same rights as men; hence the movement itself, in my opinion, is not relevant in the 21st century. On the other hand, there are a couple of religions that consider women unequal with men, and only in this case I support feminism as a movement for women’s rights. So, I do not consider women worse than men and I do not think, that a woman can be used as a thing. “This is particularly clear when cultures openly discriminate against women and attempt to deny them the rights to

Aliea grins while picking up the stick. She always had a strange pull to gore, she knew she would enjoy this. She speeds toward the adult, her hair sticking to her sweaty face, caught in her nose, mouth and eyes. The adult keeps snarling and charging at her, grunting and wheezing with every step his fat, greasy body makes. Dead plants and sticks rake Aliea’s legs, she sucks in air, trying to ignore the pain in her side. She presses her free hand to her side and keeps on charging, faster, faster, faster is all she can think about. She grips the stick tighter in her hand, the bumps and cracks imprinting in her palm. Aliea starts to slow down, her side throbbing with pain and her legs stinging from the cold of the night, scrapes, bruises and cuts. She grits her teeth,

In every culture, there are certain societal standards that people are expected to live up to. Some have find it easy to accept and fit in, while other struggle to find themselves within society’s ideals. Society places a great emphasis on the way women should look to be considered beautiful and many women fail to live up to those standards. In the short story “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus, the reader sees how the main character Louise, a fat girl, struggles to fit in with pressure society places on her that to be considered beautiful, one must be thin. Louise, for the majority of her life, outwardly appears as if she's trying to conform to society's standards of dieting and trying to be thin, but when completely alone, she hides her guilty pleasure of binge eating candy bars. The pressure is placed upon her from her childhood and follows her throughout her life, until her marriage falls apart after she gains weight. Andre Dubus shows us, through the events that occur in Louise’s life, that only after accepting ourselves they way we are, despite societal pressures of conforming to a certain standard, can we begin the road to becoming happy. She wants to be accepted for who she is, not for what she looks like. It isn't until her marriage dissolves that she acknowledges that she needs to accept herself and be comfortable in her own skin before she can become happy.

We live in a binary gender system. Nearly every action, reaction, judgement, and decision can be traced back to this simple fact. Aside from just oppressing those that don’t identify as a part of this binary system or fit perfectly into it, we also oppress those who aren’t in the half of the population that come out on top in this system. To be a “man” in the definition we have constructed it to be is to be superior and it shows in the way we raise children, and how the idea of a human being was thought of for much of history. In our readings these ideas are touched on and we are forced to confront these truths in our own lives.

In addition, the novel switches around the scenes of male-dominated society where women are taken as a way of assistance and pleasure for men. Here, women do not participate in forming life, but they play a distinctive role in encouraging men and guiding them on the right path. In the text, the role of the women includes responsibility towards their family, a beauty that men praise and underprivileged of rights.

“Working Girl,” depicts important battles that women are still fighting today, it brings light to the ridiculous judgments and barriers that women had to smash to establish themselves in the business field. The film was written by Kevin Wade and released in 1988, the story is based in New York City from the inspiration of New York commuters and the noticing that many young women were wearing white tennis shoes on their way to work, carrying high heels to change into once arriving to work. Tess McGill, an undervalued and mistreated sectary to the ultimate feministic triumph, Kathrine Parker who steals Tess McGill’s idea for a radio deal for their company, are the main characters. While Kathrine Parker is on a skiing trip and breaks her

‘As readers they are asked to adopt a masculine perspective, while as women they are excluded from the masculine experience determined by such a perspective.’

Thus, your sexual choices reflect the psychological and social facets of life; and every human being manifests an inherent ability to exhibit his and her own prominent and sensual sides; and convert them if it turns necessary. However, physical limits exist; and the writer reminisces as memory serves the reader that feminine power and producing abilities stand both as the base where our contemporary societies rise; as they advance in a continuous path.

A trope states different categories of figures of speech e.g. similes and puns. They used to describe and analyze a convention that can easily be understood and recognized as its common applied. Popular cultures are the images, perspectives and ideas that are within a given culture and is directing a certain mass. Final girl, a horror movie is among those movies that have many tropes in them. This movie is about a certain woman who becomes the last in line to ever confront the killer. She becomes the only person to ever narrate the story. This all happens after all her friends were killed by the killer holding her. The killer won’t let her go as he is holding a knife to finish what he had started. Hence, the essay below analyses tropes in pop cultures in the movie, the final girl.

In fact, man is seen as the universal norm whereas woman is “defined and differentiated with reference to man” (ibid.). Thus, man is defined as the One which entails the submission of woman as the Other (xxiv). This submission, however, is a result of natural condition rather than historical events or social change (xxiv-xxv). Moreover, it is due to the fact that woman do not form an independent unit as they do not have a past or history of their own which differentiates them from men. Hence, woman is the Other in a duality in which both elements - man and woman - are essential, as the division of the sexes is a biological fact not a historical event

Here, the narrator reduces the woman to merely her physical attributes. While he has the option to admire personality traits such as kindness or faithfulness, he chooses to devote his praises to her body, as if it exists for the purpose of being worshipped.