Catharine Breillat's Film Romance

Gender equality, Identity, and Relationships. All of these themes can be found in She’s the Man. In She’s the Man there is a scene in which Duke sees Olivia run and kiss Sebastian, but what Duke doesn’t know is that it isn’t the Sebastian he has been living and grown to by teammates with. Duke then becomes very angry and soon after kicks “Sebastian” who is really Viola out of their room, and she has no idea why. It was Viola’s decision to change identities that started much confusion, and severed the close bond between her and Duke. This movie has many examples of the theme identity. I personally have learned that it is always important to stay true to who you are, and if you do want to change your identity, that you need to be mentally and

Nonetheless, the disclosure that surrounds the rape of the woman does not break away from the customary views on violence especially towards women. In the entire movie, women are depicted and viewed as extremely traditional and passive. They are supposed to follow whatever is required from them. Gender through the movie exists in the similar way through which race exists. The society in the movie is largely patriarchy, and gender is unconsciously used for the purpose of justifying oppression and patriarchal

Through years of history women have been subjugated. They are seen as vehicles for reproduction and sexual objects. Yet this is a mentality that is directly related with moral theory. Since this is for the most part a male dominated society, women's views are often seen

Marie, Alexandra, Myrtle and Daisy all in some way feel as though that they have been restrained from doing things they want because of traditional gender roles causing only men to be able to do things women can’t. Marie is greatly affected by this because she wants to be with Emil and she was already tied down to her husband, Frank. The time period these novels were written in, society looks down upon people who get divorced and especially if a woman initiated it. So, people are stuck in unhappy relationships because they can’t get divorced from their spouses. Marie definitely realizes the freedom that men have and she becomes very envious of the men in her life because she can’t do

Gender is only viewed as a small part in the social system which actually determines the role that men and women have in society. It is Rubin’s belief that the social and political systems are the first cause of gender discrimination and the oppression of women in a society. It is these conventions and customs that are ingrained in the minds of children from a very early age. Girls are taught to perceive themselves as less gifted by nature because of their anatomical characteristics. These conventions could make Guilliadun feel as that though she needs to accept her husband’s adulterous choices because that is how women should be treated by their husbands, or so they have been told.

Today’s filmmakers have three areas to focus on: the event or theme of the film, the audience who will be watching the film, and lastly, the individual characters and the roles they play and how they are portrayed and interpreted. Many of these films bottom line objectives are to focus on the “erotic needs of the male ego.” The focus on fetishistic scopophilia tend to slant the view such that we see the world as being dominated by men and that woman are

Victims of sexual assault are often written off as the passive recipients of violent acts. Aggression is perpetrated against them, and though they may survive, their viability as a character is completely overshadowed by their circumstance—effectively relegating them to the role of a silent symbol. A rape victim’s status as an individual is transmuted, either as a result of the patriarchal fixation with female chastity, or as a sacrificial plot device for the progression of a narrative. The rape of a female character is used as an object which can be levied to justify revenge or otherwise motivate the actions of a male protagonist, leaving the woman entirely outside the authorship of events. To wrest

In contemporary 21st century thought, sexual liberty is at the forefront of the feminist movement. Women are taking their bodily autonomy back, and ascribing a sense of ownership back to themselves. This movement to gain bodily and sexual liberty, however, are not new concepts. Philosophers and literary greats tackled these issues prior to the 21st century. Both Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence and Kate Chopin’s short story, At the ‘Cadian Ball and which were written prior to the 21st century and its third wave of feminism. portray women’s sexuality throughout their texts. However, in both novels, the sexuality that is portrayed is confined within boundaries that are prescribed by the men in the story. By writing the female sexuality this way, they are exposing the problematic nature of being able to express a woman’s sexuality, and the lack thereof. Through the focalisation of the narrative as well as plot development of the female characters and their lack of freedom and autonomy in other aspects of their life, the authors make their points clear about women and their freedom, sexual and otherwise.

To do so, Levy turns to the experiences of several young women whom she interviews. From her interpretations of these experiences, Levy reaches the conclusion that these women’s sexual nature revolves around their need

However, the medieval man was socially, culturally and communally confined, to this belief system that held men and their masculinity to a narrow standard. When rapist or rape culture began to no longer be tolerated it was still with exception. And, when a young man didn’t rape a woman, he was still obliged to control or dominate her. The point being made is, though there

Sex is used in the novel as a representation of total freedom. Its exercise is almost always portrayed by McMurphy who, through his general demeanor and newness to the hospital, is the most free, sexually, of any of the men. He is so free, that it has gotten him into trouble as he only seems to be able to act on impulse. Society is not able to deal with his complete abandon and he is eventually punished for it by having a piece of his brain removed. The rest of the men are all repressed mostly due to some problem they’ve had with the women in their lives. In fact, it is their inability to deal with women that brought them to the hospital in the first place. Women are portrayed throughout the book as the root of all men’s problems. Nurse Ratched is the penultimate figure of sexual repression. She does not acknowledge her femininity but hides it successfully, but for her bosom, beneath her sterile, pressed uniform. She is cold toward the men offering no real compassion and serves only to aggravate the men’s issues with women in general. Her power is finally stripped from her, quite literally, when McMurphy rips open her uniform revealing her breasts, the symbol of femininity; she is a woman after all.

Can result in a man committing rape in opposition to a girl is based on the premise that the male intercourse power is uncontrollable. Guys with this belief say that their sexual urges can not be managed and they're not accountable for their moves. Proponents of this principle “advocate each that men’s sexual strength is hard to manipulate and that women have a key role in its loss of control,” due to the fact women deny sex to guys who have to relieve their sexual

The future conditions of the woman’s potential marital worth were much poorer than any punishment the violator could have received. Once a woman was raped, her virginity was no longer available for her husband to have. “‘Virginity is the ornament of morals, the sanctity of the sexes, the peace of families and the source of the greatest friendships.’ Its existence was a precondition for marriage. To publicly breach it was to compromise honor, rank, even life; a ‘deflowered’ girl inevitably became a ‘lost’ girl. . . ‘The ravishing of virginity was the worst rape of all.’” (Cite Book 1) An innocent woman had now completely lost her worth to society and her own dignity due to a man’s egocentric and merciless actions.

Sondra Guttman in her piece on Daughter of the Earth states, “In this novel, love leads to enslavement-an enslavement that is psychological, emotional, and physical” (490). Throughout the novel, Smedley presents the ways that patriarchy and capitalism work together in the oppression of women. Though Guttman states that the recognition of these categories does not adequately address the novel’s complexity, it is still a central theme in the novel that is worth serious discussion (489). There are multiple instances where Marie points out that her freedom exists because she is not under the control of a man. Furthermore, as the men fall under the pressure of the capitalist forces in the novel they in turn take out their aggressions on their wives in order to regain their lost masculinity. This leads to the women in the novel as being presented as commodities under the strain and control of patriarchy and capitalism. On the one hand, the capitalist system feeds on a pre-existing system of oppression, patriarchy, and on the other it compounds many of its defining characteristics. Meaning these systems work complementary throughout much of the novel.

The Rape of Lucrece’s first significant interaction between Lucretia and her maid justifies the devaluation of female consent by constructing femininity