Relationship Between Masculinity And Femininity

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare contradicts vapid stereotypes about gender. Through Viola’s disguise as Cesario, he is able to prove that a woman is able to fulfill a man 's role in society. She is able to fool the other characters and is even able to woo another woman. This reinforces ideas about how invalid the rules and regulations society has made since Viola easily broke through them. Later on in the story, Sir Andrew challenges Viola to a duel. Viola expects Sir Andrew to be a great fighter, and he expects the same from her. This creates a comedic situation since they both are too afraid of each other to engage in the fight. (3.4, 223-298)

In the She’s The Man (2006), Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) cross dresses for the majority of the film, pretending to be her twin brother Sebastian. She does this in order to play for Illyria’s men’s soccer team as her school, Cornwall, cut the women’s soccer team and wouldn’t allow her to play for the men’s team. Her main motivation is to beat her former schools team and prove to them that even though she is a girl, she can play on the same field as the boys. While pretending to be Sebastian, Viola initially struggles to hide her femininity, such as when it is discovered that she has tampons in her bag. As the movie progresses her ability to hide this femininity and express masculinity becomes easier. Her cross dressing has an effect on everything and everyone around her and it pushes the line on the comfort people feel when stereotypical gender norms are challenged/ She becomes interested in her roommate, Duke (Channing Tatum) and throughout the movie the two become closer on an intimate level even though Viola is still masked as Sebastian. Duke is obviously uncomfortable with this as made evident by the end of the movie, when it is revealed that Viola was pretending to be Sebastian the entire time. His look of relief reinforces this idea of stereotypical, heterosexual gender roles, as now that Viola is revealed as a female, it is socially acceptable to be attracted to her. She’s The Man reinforces the stereotypical gender roles that society expects out of

William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a comedy about Viola, a woman who washes up in Illyria and then assumes the role of a man in order to be closer to Orsino, the man she wants to marry. It involves multiple cases of mistaken identities and deception. The stereotypical role of the sexes and gender also have a significant impact in the play. Ultimately it provides the opportunity to disrupt the fixed polarities upon which the normative Elizabethan society is based. This essay will discuss Belsey’s statement that the closing of the play voids the transgressive gaps in sexual stereotypes. This will be done by considering the historical context and the sexual norms of the time and to what extent they are transgressed in Twelfth Night.

The movie She’s the Man is all about gender equality, identity, and relationships. The major concept in gender discrimination. Viola the main character she dresses as her brother so that she could play soccer with the boys.

Gender equality is one of the main focuses in the Shakespearean play Twelfth Night. The movie “She’s the Man” is inspired by this play. The movie “She's the Man” challenges traditional views of males and females in society. In the movie, Amanda Bynes’s coach informs her soccer team that there will no longer be a girl’s team throughout the rest of the year. Unhappy about her coach’s statement, Amanda suggests that the girls should collaborate with the boys and play together on one team. The boys and coach find the idea to be laughable and disagree. When Amanda’s star athlete older brother runs off to travel the country to go on tour with his band, he convinces Amanda to disguise herself as him until his return. She pretends to be him for two

movie varies greatly from the original play. The frivolous tone of this adaptation fails to epitomize the historical setting, depth of characters, and poetic magnificence of this comedic play. In She’s The Man the plot revolves around Viola, and her struggle to be recognized as a professional soccer player. When the girls’ team at her school is cancelled, she decides to disguise herself as her twin brother Sebastian (who coincidentally leaves for London to pursue his passion in music) in order to join the boys’ soccer team at his boarding school. However she is instantly captivated by her new roommate Duke Orsino, and he asks her to divulge his fervent and vehement love for their classmate Olivia. The movie essentially modernizes the play in order to remove the boring stigma associated with Shakespeare’s plays but with some futile additions that distort or are gross misrepresentations of the original play.

The most prominent woman figure in this play is Linda, but the male characters in this play also give us insight into women’s roles and help feed the feminist analyses

Looking tough, sagging your pants, big muscles, baritone voices, and being homophobia do not characterized what masculinity is. Masculinity is biologically constructed and consists of traits such as aggressiveness, non-emotional, competitiveness, and tough skinned, strong, and hard. However, over the decades of our time, men that are queers (homosexual man) have now been identified as “queering masculinity”. Men such as; Ellyn Harris, best selling open gay author, Alvin Ailey, CEO and founder of the, American Dance Theatre in New York City, Langston Hughes, famous African American Poet, James Baldwin, civil rights activist and author of, “Go Tell it on the Mountain”, and the “Fashion Queen” himself, Mr. Andre Leon Talley, former editor and chief of Vogue magazine. These philanthropic men have all been influential in our societies and communities. Their pioneer abilities has transcended them as visionaries and are the voices through the lens of, “Queering Masculinity: Manhood and Black Gay Men in College”. Which is also known as “BGMUs”. This was a qualitative study that explored the lives and experiences of BGMUs’ and how they identified with masculinity and manhood affecting them socially and academically.

Upon meeting Sebastian for the first time and seeing his similarity to Cesario, Feste remarks “nothing so is so” (4.1,8) reminding the audience of the artificial nature of gender identity. The artificiality of gender is further emphasized when Viola and Sebastian are both on stage together toward the end of the play and Orsino exclaims “One face, one voice, one habit and two persons” (5.1,215) That Sebastian and Viola are so identical despite their gender difference is disruptive to the gender binary. Finally, upon learning the truth about Viola’s identity, Orsino says to her “Cesario, come – For so you shall be, while you are a man; But when in other habits you are seen, Orsino’s mistress and his fancy’s queen” (5.1, 385-88). That Orsino refers to Viola as Cesario because she will be a man until she changes her clothes indicates the ambiguity of gender as clothes are easily

She’s the Man, directed in 2006 by Andy Fickman is, an adaption of the play Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare. The play and the movie were made just about 400 years apart from each other and still the writers were able to modernize the play from 1600 to reach an audience of 2006. The movie and the play focus on the themes of gender roles and mistaken identity entwined with unrequited love. The movie she’s the man and the play twelfth night both revolve around a woman, whose name is Viola, respectively acting as a man.

In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, one of the central themes that drives the main conflict is the issue of gender roles and femininity. Viola, who is the play’s protagonist, finds herself in the midst of this conflict, trying to find a way to rid herself of her ever present other persona. The struggle between the change of gender and the roles they play is shown as Viola becomes Cesario for parts of the play, leading a double life. The quote from lines 25-29 in Act II Scene ii reflect her inner turmoil as she decides how she is going to handle the consequences that have been presented because of her trickery.

Katherine rebels against the stereotype towards the beginning where she demonstrates a violent temper and belligerent attitude. Viola disguises herself as a man for most of the play in order to preserve her state of free will. Both women, Viola and Katherine, experience something completely different as a repercussion of their chosen rebellion. While Katherine’s experience is condemning and humiliating, Viola enjoys life and the role of being disguised as a man. Although, throughout the play these women characters express rebellion against society’s standards of women, both women voluntarily accept these roles towards the last scene of the plays.

The Social Construction of Masculinity and Femininity are maybe more toward like the gender roles. Such as, what is the role of a male and female. On the other hand, most of the construction of masculinity and femininity is that the men have more power than the women. Men have more power in households, workplaces, culturally and sometimes, power and the gender roles doesn’t apply to some people.

Shakespeare has clearly separated almost all elements of the book into two categories; silliness and seriousness. Viola’s gender and presentation would fit into silliness – at face value, the changes began because of a ridiculously dramatic act of love, and Shakespeare uses many lines of dialogue such as the frivolously dangerous wordplay Viola uses (as described by the Duke in the end, “Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times / Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.”), which might blow her cover, to inject more unrealism into the entire situation. However, looking deeper at the subject, Viola’s gender presentation is one of the most ambiguously casted elements of the play. She is only

How is gender and gender roles socially constructed? Soulliere states that gender is a cultural creation that is frequently developed by and represented through popular cultural media such as advertisements, music, sports, and entertainment television (Soulliere 2006). The article “Wrestling with Masculinity: Messages about Manhood in the WWE” by Danielle M. Soulliere (2006), examines messages about manhood revealed by televised professional wrestling (Soulliere 1). Messages concerning masculinity and manhood were investigated and compared to the cultural version of masculinity (Soulliere 2006). Soulliere’s research proves that the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) depicts messages, which supports the dominant hegemonic form of masculinity (Soulliere 2006). To further grasp and understand Soulliere’s hypothesis, we must first examine her research methods and outcomes.