Sexual Identity In Alfred Hitchcock Films

Henry James's Turn of the Screw was written in a time when open sexuality was looked down upon. On the surface, the story is simply about a governess taking care of two children who are haunted by two ghosts. However, the subtext of the story is about the governess focusing on the children's innocence, and the governess trying to find her own sexual identity. Priscilla L. Walton wrote a gender criticism themed essay about the Turn of the Screw, which retells certain parts of the story and touches on the significance they provide for the sexually explicit theme. Walton's essay is accurate because James purposely put an undertone of sexuality and identity confusion in the Turn of the Screw.

Guy Montag’s first change occurs when he meets a 17 years old girl named Clarisse. In their conversation, Clarisse asks guy, “Are you happy?”(7). At first, Guy ridicules the question, mocking, “Of course I’m happy. What does she think? I’m not?” (8). However, upon returning to his home, Guy admits that “he was not happy… [and] recognized this as the true state of affairs” (9). This demonstrates Guy first

Josephine was the person in which Guy’s chance at going to Paris came from, it was up to her whether he would succeed or fail. Angel in this goal, was also against Guy as she did not believe that Josephine was reliable in any sense, as Angel continued to try to persuade Guy against relying on Josephine, labeling it as a fool’s dream. Society was also against this goal as his living arrangements, race, and lack of money was detrimental to his possibility of success. Although the idea of success was Guy’s main goal, it was extended and long, not as active as the smaller goals that were portrayed, creating less ability to focus on “other” for the actor, although it was clear that he did when Angel would speak to him about her doubts as he refused to pay much attention to what she was saying when she did so. The smaller goals such as sex was focused on more and the “other,” Leland, became an active target of focus with the clear upset attitude shown when Leland was insulting of Guy’s

Mildred, the main character Guy Montag’s wife, equates a coward. In this particular scene, Montag has arrived with Captain Beatty and the other firemen ready to burn down another house

Montag is very confused with everything that is happening. Throughout this part, Guy Montag transforms from a person who enjoys burning books and living in the society that he lives in to starting to question the reason why he is doing those things. He does not know if he is happy with his life. In one night, he met a 17 year old girl who questions his ideas and his wife almost overdosed. In the beginning, you can see that he enjoys burning books and being a fireman: "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history" (1). A quote where you can see Guy is confused is shown here: "I don't know anything anymore" (15). Guy feels like he is in a deep abyss of nothing. Before his encounter with Clarisse, the 17 year old girl, Guy thought he was happy and that his wife Mildred was also happy. Clarisse tries to make Guy think about his job, life, and everything in general. This is shown here, where Clarisse asks Guy if it is true that firemen used to put out fires instead of starting them: "Is it true that long ago

Guy Montag, on the other hand, is a fireman who starts fires, rather than stops them, in order to burn books, which are banned. Anyone caught with books are reported and their house and sometimes the people themselves are burned to the ground. People in his society don’t read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, think independently, or have meaningful conversations. Guy is struggling with the meaninglessness of his life. His wife doesn’t seem to care and when he meets a seventeen year old girl named, Clarisse McClellan it opens up his eyes to the emptiness in his life. After this Montag becomes overwhelmed because of the stash of books in his house that he stole while on the job. Beatty, the fire chief, says that it’s normal for every fireman to go through a stage of wondering what books have to offer. Beatty gives Montag the night to see if the books have anything valuable in them, and to return them in the morning to be burned.

Montag, brought up to burn books, is confused at his actions. As his mind unravels he begins to think for himself after meeting Faber, he constantly questions how he “could have been so blind” and “how it got to this.” He thinks back to burning books and thinks “my hands did the actions, mindlessly” montag feels anger toward his ignorance, maybe he could have done things different. Guy pity’s himself and his wife, mildred, not because he is sad, because he wish things could have been different for them. Mostly, is enraged by the ignorance and helplessness of the people around himself, and is the cause of most of his confusion.

He finds an ex-professor named Faber, whom he met in the park one day. Faber is reluctant, but finally agrees to aid Montag against the firemen. Faber provides Montag with a two-way radio earpiece. That evening Montag loses his temper and breaks out by reading some banned poetry aloud to his wife’s friends. Which wasn’t such a bright decision. That night at the firehouse, Beatty pokes at Montag by quoting contradictory passages from the same books. Which he’s trying to prove that all literature is confusing and problematic. Then he takes Guy to a fire alarm. Which is very astonishing because it’s at Guy’s

Bruno goes through with this plan and strangles Miriam at a local county fair. While Guy doesn’t want to kill Bruno’s father, Bruno threatens to blame him for the murder of his wife, while using a lighter that Guy left behind on the train as evidence against him. Guy receives help from his true love, Anne Morton, and her sister, Barbara, by devising a plan where he won’t be accused of murdering his own wife. In this movie, the male castration is that Guy is unable to get out of the trouble he has come across without the help of Anne and Barbara.

At the time of Guy’s death, the foreman asked if Lili wanted her husbands eyes to be closed. She responded, “No lave them open. My husband, he likes to look at the sky” (244). Guy was not happy with his life on earth living in poverty. He finally reached freedom when he passed away. Lili did not judge her husband for committing the act and was not disappointed at him when he left her and Little Guy. Little Guy was in shock when he stood over his father’s dead body. He did not say anything besides his lines for the play. Little Guy‘s voice tone was angry and confused.

One of the reasons that this film made the top ten films of all time

As the depiction of the consequences of adultery conveys the detrimental effects of infidelity on sacred marriage and family, Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction reveals anti-feminist views of America in 1987 on gender roles in acts of adultery, which place heavier blame on women. Dan Gallagher, the protagonist, has an affair with Alex Forest, whom he meets through his work, while Beth Gallagher, his wife, and Ellen Gallagher, his six-year-old daughter, are away for a weekend. Throughout the entire movie, Alex encourages the development of the affair by reaching out to Dan. She initiates the initial discussion of an affair at a friendly dinner with Dan. After he claims that dinner with anybody is not a “crime” in reply to her accusation of him being a “naughty boy” for spending time with her while his wife and daughter are away for the weekend, Alex asks if it will become one, to which Dan replies, “I definitely think it’s going to be up to you.”

Throughout history, definitions of sexuality within a culture are created and then changed time after time. During these changes, we have seen the impact and power one individual or group can have over others. In the Late Nineteenth Century into the Early Twentieth Century, we see multiple groups of people and or authorities taking control over the idea of sex and how they believe society is being impacted by sex. At this point in time, society had groups of people who believed they had the power to control how society as whole viewed and acted upon sex. Those particular groups and ideas changed many lives and the overall definition of sexuality within that culture.

If there is one thing that can be said about the relationship between Guy and Mildred Montag, it is that no matter how their relationship changes, they seem to be a constant burden for one another. In addition, any happiness or good attitude that they may have had towards each other is gone and could quite possibly remain that way. Although there are slight positive advances in their relationship, they are ultimately feeding a hungry and unwavering depression that is so common in the society depicted in the

The most appealing films are those that keep audiences guessing, surprise them at the most unexpected times and break conventional film boundaries. Edward Scissorhands (1990) directed by Tim Burton, is a feature film that does exactly that. It blends a fairy tale story with a gothic horror film, to engage the viewer right from beginning until the resolution. It tells the tale of Edward, who was the creation of an inventor who died before he could give Edward proper hands, and was left with scissors as hands. When he was taken from his gothic mansion, into a “normal” suburban community, he was at first welcomed, but then heartbreakingly rejected when things went wrong. The character of the “monster” is an