The Role Of Aggression In Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'

Thirdly, the quarterly essay opened audience to verified truth. By applying evidences from around the world, from different situations, Goldsworthy made audience relies what women across the world have been going through along with their suffering. Goldsworthy likewise included conditions from careers that audiences don’t even focus on. For instance, Goldsworthy used many situation, but she revealed a female actress’s perspective for shooting a popular pornography. “88.2 percent contained physical aggression, principally spanking, gagging, and slapping, while 48.7 per cent of scenes contained verbal aggression, primarily name-calling. Perpetrators of aggression were usually male, whereas targets of aggression were overwhelmingly female…” (Goldsworthy, (2013))(4). The sentences

Alfred Hitchcock uses dramatic and verbal irony to explain women’s powerful intuition compared to men’s analytical skills. Gender differences are presented in a dramatic manner. Further, the short film explains the differences in gender character’s present in the society (Leitch, 18). For instance, men appear to have an arrogant feeling of superiority against women. This is highly evident in the society we live in because there are high levels of gender inequality. Moreover, women in the story act in solidarity-resisting men’s act of superiority. This brings the theme of feminism creatively in the film.

“The Longest War” by Rebecca Solnit convinces readers that the violence against women are in the content of the United States and the world. Solnit presented information that is regarding violence and rape statistical and personal views of gender and the inequality of male violence toward comparing women’s violence to men or women. She uses numerical facts ad provides statements of how this affects the way women perceive their surroundings. Solnit clearly makes a strong frequency and violence of rape by listing the details of rape and violence eight times within the first paragraph of the text. She uses many examples of how rape is a gendered issue and how many victims that fall prey to violence which lends us toward an engaging need to

Does deviating from one’s gender norms inevitably doom one down a spiral of moral corruption? Tim O'Brien, author of “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” and Ernest Hemingway, author of “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, certainly seem to hold this view, as evident by the fates of the major female characters in their respective works. The deviance of the major female characters in both works appears to corrupt not only themselves, but also pollute their partners, causing them to suffer injury or harm as a result. The degree of injury ranges from negligible, like Fossie’s demotion and broken heart, to fatal, like the bullet that rips through Macomber’s skull. It begs the question, are these stories meant to serve as cautionary tales for their female readers, or possibly for their husbands, so they may recognize gender deviance and stop it in its tracks before their wives transform into Margot Macomber or Mary Anne Bell? This essay will analyze what such characters say about pervading views of women, both in society and in literature.

Nature of appearances is another theme in the film. The woman at the beginning was one of them but there are more throughout the movie. When Scottie is running up the staircase in the church, his facial expressions are shown, and it is the expression of fear. Also, when Judy becomes “Madeline” again, it is a big part in the movie. Her character is nothing but appearances. She is based on the legend of a dead woman and Scottie is trying to make Judy look exactly like Madeline because he sees her in Judy. Romantic delusion is another theme in the film Vertigo. Scottie was so in love with Madeline, that when Judy comes along, and he sees something similar in her, he must make her exactly like Madeline. Also, when Judy is at the top of the bell tower in the church, she sees a shadow and she thinks it is the real Madeline returning to the scene of the crime and maybe trying to scare her or make her feel guilty.

Another common theme in Hitchcock’s two films is the female loss/lack of identity. In “Shadow of a Doubt,” Young Charlie feels alone and empty until her uncle comes to town. Initially, she is nothing without him. Comparably, in “Vertigo,” Judy is nothing to Scottie or herself. He wants her to be exactly like Madeline and she does it for him. At some point, both women experience a lack or loss of identity.

Throughout time, there has been a battle present in which females try to rise above the power of men and the hold they have on women. Whether the battle be for the equal treatment of both sexes or simply establishing a level of respect and understanding from the opposite sex, the meaning stands the same in which there is an ever-present power struggle that is continuously ongoing between the sexes. No matter the intentional meaning of the work, women suppression by men are seen when one looks beyond the simple statements given and examines the female characters in great detail to better understand the struggle she endures daily due to men. One author in particular that allows an interesting viewpoint into the mind of a blossoming woman is Susan Minot. Minot demonstrates in her story “Lust” how the female narrator is influenced and altered by her male sexual partners. Through each sexual encounter, the reader is able to see the changes these encounters have on the young woman emotionally and other affects a man has on her as she grows up in a male dominated world. This can all be determined by observing closely the figurative language used in the story, the fluctuations in emotions seen in the female character, and the thoughts the woman has about men throughout the story.

Jacobs’ narrative is open and honest in its depiction of sexual harassment, describing the nature of the abuse and the tortured emotional state it leaves its victims in. Though the narrative tells of a girl’s life over one hundred and fifty years ago, it remains timely in its reminder that many suffering women do not have the ability to safely end the harassment they face every day, and yet, they continue to endure the consequential

Scottie suffers after his involvement with Madeline/Judy. After his ideal woman Madeline dies, Scottie becomes obsessed with Judy after his dreamlike woman dies. Scottie is trying to cope with Madelines loss and spots Judy and starts to obsess over her like he did with Madeline. It is destructive and unhealthy for his mental health as he pours his heart into dying Judy’s hair the right shade and finding the exact suit Madeline wore. As a director of the Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary said, Scottie is trying to fill his void of losing Madeline by making over Judy. This would affect Gavin’s master plan as well, as Scottie could go to the police with this damning information and the ruse would be over.

The short story is an eye opener for young women to beware of their surrounding. The short story became a classic and is read all throughout schools. It really open the eyes of the reader to beware of strangers and that even the person they believe would not hurt him just might. Thirty-five percent of women have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non partner sexual violence, according to the united nations. According to a global study on homicide of all women who were victims of homicide globally in 2012 an estimated half were killed by intimate partners or family members.

Within the first section, Stanko addresses four violent crimes that are exerted by men– incest, rape, wife battering and sexual harassment. Stanko draws comparisons between victimised women in Great Britain and in the United States. Additionally, she refers to women of different ages, different financial standings and different ethnicities concluding that “no woman is immune from men’s intimidating, threatening or violent behaviour” (p.1). However, she makes the distinction that the violence women encounter may differentiate based on factors such as ethnicity, class, religion or age. However, Stanko outlines that sexual intrusions are a commonality and are a feature of every woman’s life “the sexually harassing comments, the slap on the face, the grab on the street” (p.1) are familiar acts. This is reflected in the work of Rhode (2014) who as a contemporary criminologist makes an extensive explanation of how male violence is still a common occurrence as stated; “the

Throughout history, violent women and women with violent intent have starkly emerged from many countries, carving their niches in myths and legends. The creation of these stories suggests that men began to notice lethality in feminine charm centuries back.

The issue of female persecution throughout many of Hitchcock’s films has been fiercely contested, none more so than the controversial issue of assault and the attempted rape of a woman. Views that Hitchcock represents the archetypal misogynist are supported, Modelski suggesting that his films invite “his audience to indulge their most sadistic fantasies against the female” (18). Through both the manipulation of sound and the use of language, none more so than in Blackmail and Frenzy, the idea of rape and violence does effectively silence and subdue not only the women in the films, but the also the women watching them (18).

Critically analyse and discuss Tarantino’s women characters as featured in selected films from his body of work. Consider the ways in which female protagonists have become more central in certain films and the aesthetic and moral implications of their participation in violent events in movies such as Inglourious Basterds, Death Proof and/or the Kill Bill films. Point #1 By deconstructing gendered dialect, Tarantino is effectively changing the ideas of prohibitive sexual orientation roles by having feminine yet regarded and dangerous courageous women. For instance, as a general rule, a woman will need to yield her womanliness in different movies with a specific end goal to do an assignment, or her gentility will be a shortcoming to her work

In The Uncanny, Freud discusses the different definitions and claims that various theorists have made regarding the feeling of uncanny. He defines the different factors that provoke the uncanny in humans and demonstrates how these factors elicit that strange and seemingly inexplicable feeling. Similarly, in Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, adopts the various factors that cause the uncanny to alter Scottie’s identity and beliefs. Ultimately, when Scottie is transformed from a rational being to a psychotic obsessive, it serves to indicate the severity of Scottie’s mental instability and his detachment from reality.