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Mean Girls Act 3 Summary

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The second section features the women of the play Margaret, Elizabeth and his mother the Duchess of York interacting with each other; however in Act 4 where they are interacting together they all mostly join in venting about their hatred for Richard. As women, Miner informs us that they have even less power thanks to Richard’s growing tyranny but they still join together and curse the latter altogether. To her, she inferred that even though Richard subverted them that the real affect comes from the “emotional solidity” that the women provided (Miner 266). The point she is making is that when the focus shifts towards the female, the readers are allowed to see and feel the human emotions that they display, rather than just the brute, cunning …show more content…

Act 4 was perhaps the only act that was mostly dedicated to the females since they either only showed up briefly in the first 3 acts or were mentioned by other male characters. In this act the way they were cursing Richard and talking bad about him behind his back reminds me of the way many females gossip together. Richard III is certainly not like the movie Mean Girls, but the way they were badmouthing Richard behind his back, in my opinion resembled the way the eponymous girls in the movie had spoken or talked bad about their friends behind their backs. Richard was certainly not their friend in this, but in this scenario he’s the ‘Regina George’ of the play, an “evil dictator” and so naturally, when he’s not present he is the main discussion of the women (Mean Girls). As I read section 2, I thought that the women’s cursing of Richard and Miner’s insistence on women being able to exert the emotional impact of the play makes sense. For two reasons: Women are often to talk amongst each other to “voice concerns about others to their peers” (Rawi) and they are also known for talking “about what they are thinking and feeling” (TheHopeLine). From my own experience and based on proven fact that women are more emotional, I understood Miner’s point because in movies, plays or books women can be depended on for an emotional scene because they are capable of displaying such human

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