Earth Like The Na Vis Do In Pandora

Many Native American women held upstanding and high positions within their tribes and made very important decisions for the entire tribe within it. While the Natives valued women as warriors and decision makers, the Europeans did not view women as someone to be in a position of power. They instead chose to subject their women to bearing children and staying in the home.

They took care of the children, made weapons, and up kept their homes and farms. These jobs were basic every day jobs but were important as these small jobs provided food and weapons for each tribe. The Native women were extremely well respected and their opinions were highly esteemed. For example, the Iroquois people were neither patriarchal nor matriarchal and women carried the weights of the domestic economy. The descent went through the female and only women could give names to the men when they were promoted to chief. Women had all the say in who was selected for chief and made the call to go to war. It is incredible that for the centuries that Western men did not respect the opinions of women, yet Aboriginal men of the New World were able to respect their women so much that they called most of the shots of how their tribes should be run.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, gender plays a very significant role, because while women were not the most powerful gods nor the strongest or wisest of all humans, they still had tremendous influence over others around them, and even today, over those who study and learn about the women of the time of Mesopotamia. Though the main characters of the story, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, are male, women did not necessarily play a minor role. One particular issue that is demonstrated among several others in the Epic of Gilgamesh is the status of women. Since this is a story of women's status many years ago, it is indeed an interesting issue to discuss,

Women also play a very vital role in the Iroquois governing system. In contrast to the society of the United States, the women are looked upon as equals to the men. They are very important in maintaining balance and harmony within the clan. The Great Law of Peace states that the women shall

For thousands of years there has been a strong distinction between the roles of men and women. Often times in stories there will be women that are only mentioned for their beauty and charisma. Hardly ever will you see pages upon pages being spent talking about the true character and accomplishments of women characters. Even though stories like The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of Genesis were written thousands of year ago, (when stories were told mostly told from a males perspective) the light shined on women in the texts show them as wise, strong, and greatly influential beings. In The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of  Genesis, the writer shows the women as bringers of knowledge,  guidance, and care to the men in the texts that are lacking thereof.

In addition to providing guidance, women also play powerful roles. Take Shamhat for example. She uses the power of sex and curiosity to lure Enkidu away from his wild environment. After having sex for seven days and seven nights, Enkidu was no longer able to return to live amongst the animals and was forced to learn the ways of civilized life, which Shamhat taught him. It is easy to see that at this point in the epic, Shamhat clearly possessed the upper hand over Enkidu. He

Our world has been a male dominated society from the beginning of time. In most cultures, especially in ancient times, women were thought of as secondary to their male counterparts. Women were considered a possession just as a house or piece of property is considered a possession. The role of women in these early societies did not receive an education but was to take care of the household and have children. The women of the Minoan and Mycenaean ancient Greece cultures held much more roles than homemakers and mothers; they were allowed more freedoms and rights also oracles, priestesses, and political advisors yet they are also seen by men as nothing more than a mere possession.

At the same time there is a certain amount of equality between the men and women. Women can perform much of the same tasks that the opposite sex does without much, if any, chastisement or ridicule. Females have about just as much say when it comes to the inner workings of the society like marriages, child rearing, child birth, and ownership of goods and land. Most females are the initiators of divorce as explained in the book. Sexual equality is probably the most apparent amongst the tribesmen and women. Women are at times are forthcoming in their wants and needs when it comes to their sexual appetites and advances.

The Disney film “The Lion King” is a great example of how females are seen as subordinate to males. Giroux states, “All of the rulers of the kingdom are men, reinforcing the assumption that independence and leadership are tied to patriarchal entitlement and high social standing” (Greene 582). This is the case for most Disney films that the male characters have power over the female characters. The female characters are depicted as weak and dependent on the male characters. This can give young girls the wrong idea of what type of roles they should take on. If they keep seeing female characters being portrayed as weak and dependent on males they may think that they should be the same way. However, not all of the female characters in these movies are portrayed the same way.

Throughout centuries there have been stories, or myth, told among the people of this world. A lot of those stories include women. Women are usually viewed as weak, unintelligent, and insignificant back in the late ages. There are some men who wrote myths that even hate women all together, such as Hesiod. In all of the myths there seems to be a goddess of great paramount to the myth somewhere in the story. So, even those women were looked down upon and viewed unequal to man they played a great role in the importance to the hero. That being said, women or goddess are just as important as men in each of these stories and they play important roles in each of the myths.

Sustainability is a big part in this movie because it shows how the environment keeps itself up the energy that flows through the whole forest sustains Pandora. When the humans wanted to destroy the main tree of pandora, for a very expensive rock. Pandora had its main tree where under it had

Avatar is the one of many films that address the major environmental issues of today’s world, one which happens to be about sustainability. The film foreshadows the reality of the Earth by 2154. In particular, Avatar demonstrates the results of overusing natural resources and thus forcing humans to continue to destroy other areas of nature for sources of energy. Since there is no longer energy on Earth, the only option is to seek out energy from a natural habitat where indigenous Na’vis have been living for years. In addition, since there is no energy, Earth is not able to sustain organic life or rich produce. Furthermore, the place is called Pandora and contains an atmosphere that is toxic to humans forcing them to wear masks. There are no megacities or urban environments here, only raw, organic nature that is preserved and cared for after the Na’vi. Here, sustainability is successful because the people recognize the aesthetic justification. Above all, the Na’vi also refuse to partake in deathly acts which reserves the limited amount of energy that they have. Avatar also touch bases with the moral justification aspect where the Na’ vi humans discern that their mission is to aid the environment to persist contributing to the success of sustainability on Pandora for future generations. The respect and gratitude that the Na’vi have for nature contrasts greatly with the way humans have respect towards nature. As time passes, the development of energy is limited and is valuable

The most important point for an ecocritical reading of the movie is its scintillating depiction of the biotic life of Pandora, which might be the most alluring and seductive vision of a foreign planet ever shown in cinema (Ivakhiv 164). The inhabitants are connected to animals and plants and their hair, for example, creates a link with the horselike creatures they are able to ride and the banshees they can fly. During the night, plans illuminate and lead the way for the Na’vi. Pods can close up to create hammocks so that they can sleep in them. One of the characters, Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) states that the Na’vi have a “deep connection [...] to the forest” (Avatar) and she teaches her companions that each of the threes on Pandora has 104 connections to any other tree, which is more connections than in the human brain. In order to accentuate the interdependent nature of the aforementioned connections, the people of Pandora believe every bit of energy in the connections is borrowed and has to be returned (Murray and Heumann “The Simpsons Movie, Happy Feet, and Avatar”

Women had always played an important role with the foundation and formation of society. As matter of fact, such evidence can be traced down to the earlier days when the first woman made one powerful decision that would affect mankind forever. According to the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, at least from the Christian religion, God created two living beings named Adam and Eve. Adam was also viewed as the very first dominant male being on planet Earth. In sequence with the creation of Adam, Eve was a woman, and was considered Adam’s one and only counterpart. Back when Adam and Eve were still alive, Eve was basically the only woman who represented the population of the female gender, and assumed the role of a woman during that time. However,

In the Hindu Mythology some women are portrayed as the role model for all the women. Sita, Savitri, Draupadi, Ahalya and Arundhati are the five women that are considered to be the role model. The women in the Hindu-Indian tradition are asked to obey their husbands no matter what they feel. This tradition imprints this in the minds and hearts of the women. If women do not follow this tradition then they will have to face the problems that their role models portrayed in the Epics have faced. Those five women are put on the pedestals of pride and honour.