Stereotypes In Breakfast Club

Blanche needs Mitch as a stabilizing force in her life; if her relationship with him fails, she knows she faces a world that offers few prospects for a financially challenged, unmarried woman approaching middle age. She tacitly admits to Mitch that she needs him when she accepts his embrace, but her fears of acknowledging her past and current situation overpower her and prevent her from telling the full truth. She hides her past not only from Mitch, but also from herself because to acknowledge it is to also admit the unhealthy choices she has made. When Stanley tells Mitch about Blanche’s blemished past Mitch recognizes that Blanche’s deceptions have relied on a symbolic and literal darkness which obscures reality. When Mitch asks Blanche to be honest about herself she says, “I don’t want realism. I want Magic! I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be the truth” (145). In these lines Blanche clearly expresses her desire not to deal with reality; this inability to face her circumstances signifies that Blanche is not recovering from her mental stress, but rather descending further into it. Blanche becomes desperate and delusional and her descent into mental

She even tells Mitch that she doesn’t tell the truth, she tells what ought to be truth. So Blanche is aware that she is lying and continues to do it, which end the end causes grief for her.

"The Dead Poets Society" is an awe inspiring film set in the 1950s about a teacher who went against the grain and taught his high school students to think for themselves and not allow their attitudes and behavior to be constrained by conformity by older generations. In our class lectures/discussions, we have touched on many aspects of human culture and communication and this movie illustrates many of these concepts. Perspectives, gender, communication theories, persuasion, language, verbal and nonverbal communication, interpersonal relationships, public speaking, intercultural communication--these are all included and exemplified in this film.

She realizes that it is not the same at St. Lucy's like how it was in the woods. “This wasn’t like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the home.” (p.233) She was beginning to see that to be the best you had to adapt quickly or you won’t survive in the human world. She also began to wonder how people lived with themselves. She began to comprehend her surroundings more clearly and questioned them. “How can people live like they do? I wondered” (p.236) Claudette began to adapt but did not want to show it in the fear that she would be outcasted as Jeanette had been for adapting. “None of the pack besides me could read yet, and I wasn't ready to claim a common language with Jeanette.” (p.240) Claudette is able to think more human-like and has adapted

Isabelle-Marie to being nothing but an ugly girl. When Louise looks at Patrice she only sees the

Besides that, in reference to Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning, I classified John Bender in level three of the stage, which is the post conventional morality stage. It is because, we can see that Bender always do things that is considered wrong, for example, smoking cannabis, vandalism and being rude to older adults even though he knows what he did are wrong (self-chosen principles). On the other hand, Brian can be categorized in level two (conventional reasoning), stage four (social system morality). We can clearly see it when John Bender wants to remove the screws of the door in the library, Brian agitatedly yells and asked Bender to stop doing it and do not mess with school property. It shows that Brian believes that breaking rules is a wrong thing

Between pursuits of her love interest, Amelie takes it upon herself to help the other characters in the film. Through her interactions with the other characters, A great contrast can be seen between the title character and the supporting cast. Whereas Amelie seems to bend the rules of reality with her imagination, many of the other character are locked down by their inability to imagine other possibilities. In helping these characters, Amelie's imagination also expands their imaginations and beliefs.

John Hughes masterfully captures the shades of adolescent stereotypes and interactions, the culture clash between adolescents and adults, and the role that parents play in modeling the high school experience of each adolescent. The Breakfast Club follows five different teenagers throughout the course of a day as they are forced to endure detention on a Saturday. Each character symbolizes a classic adolescent prototype: the athlete, the basket case, the brain, the criminal, and the princess. At first, the adolescents separate themselves and make judgments and assumptions about each other based on the stereotype they each characterize. As the film develops, the characters start to move past these stereotypes to recognize they have

When she was having a sleepover with her friends, Alanna was talking about an email she got about moving up in dance level while Claire didn’t receive this email. Claire wants to move up the whole year, but her teachers say she isn’t ready. In school, many people aren’t nice to her. While all of this is happening, her dad randomly falls into an intense stroke. He has to immediately rush to the hospital while in a lot of danger. Claire has to deal with her dad who almost becomes a baby again and has to learn his life over again. He needs to learn how to speak, remember names, walk, and many more. She has to work through her hard life and not be embarrassed by her dad near others. While this is hard, she has a daddy daughter dance that she thinks her dad can’t go to. Claire has to learn how to cope with her life while her dad is learning how to be himself

In scene nine, Blanche is confronted by Mitch, who has learned the truth about her past. Mitch tells Blanche that he has never seen her in the light. He tears Blanche's paper lantern off of the plain, bright light bulb, and tries to see her as she really is, and not in a view warped by Blanche's efforts to make herself seem more innocent, young, and beautiful than she is. Blanche responds to

He is angry and broken from his dad, who doesn’t treat John the way should be treated, he is treated like crap. He can get inside anyones head just my thinking quickly and saying the right things in the right tones. He isn’t the best kid because he is always in trouble and doing the wrong thing. Over time in “The Breakfast Club” John changed for the better.

Without realizing, Blanche compares herself to being like the light bulb and how it uses a paper lantern to cover up. She is however, fully aware of her alternating personality and that she uses it to impress others because in order for people to like her she feels she has to act like something that she is not making her very vulnerable. In order to protect herself, Blanche covers up by making fake stories and lying to everyone to seem more attractive. When her sister asks why she cares so much about her age, Blanche responds, “Because of hard knocks my vanity’s been given. What I mean is—he thinks I’m sort of prim and proper, you know. I want to deceive him enough to make him—want me . . .” (Williams 58). As opposed to letting herself shine, Blanche uses the

Yet, she is capable of manipulation and adept at spinning lies as clearly evidenced by her constant lies about a Mr. Shep Huntleigh, who does not really exist, or her lies about being on a leave of absence. This is also clear based on her manipulation of Mitch, played by Karl Malden, into making him fall for her or her emotional manipulation of Stella. Beneath this façade, Blanche seems to be terrified of losing control and terrified of reality. She spends a lot of the play and film sneaking drinks so that she can "calm her nerves" and one could even argue that her manipulation is simply her creating a reality that she doesn 't have to be so afraid of.

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 film, brought to life again by the amazing actors of the Ponderosa Stage Productions. The play adaptation of the Breakfast Club focuses on five completely different students, stuck in detention, who overtime realize that they have much more in common than they first thought. What I liked most about the Breakfast Club was how dynamic each of the actors were, and how they perfectly captured the essence of the character they were portraying. I also loved the set of the detention room, and how it really felt like a real school. My only complaint about the play was the many occasions where the actors would yell to express their feelings, and set the mood for the scene. I feel as if they didn’t need to yell as loud, because

The movie goes on to compare and contrast the “princess” and the “basketcase”, both seventeen year old girls who endeavor male attention, yet one is the cool crowd prom queen and the other is the loser, burnout crowd weirdo. Brian, the narrating brain, is a