Theme Of Orange Is The New Black

Orange is the New Black is a perfect example of different sociological concepts we’ve discussed in class. The show is streamed on Netflix. It’s takes place in an all girls prison, Litchfield Penitentiary. The premises of the show is Piper Chapman’s life in prison for money laundering. However, in this paper I will be talking and using examples of sex, gender, race, religion, groups, and organization, all of which are found in Orange is the New Black.

Piper Kerman, a young women that was in a relationship with a women by the name Nora. Nora and Piper had a loving relationship, but in no way normal, as far as most relationships go. Nora was in a special business that involved smuggling drugs into the country, and getting paid big bucks to do so without getting caught. Piper was asked to perform a small task to help out the business, which then lead her to her future problem. Ten years later Piper was happily engaged to a man named Larry, they started out as great friend but then advanced to more. In 1998 it was to her surprise that two officers by the names of Maloney and Wong, came to her house in New York to deliver the news that she'd been indicted in federal court of drug smuggling

The Color Orange? Social Justice Issues in the first season of orange is the new black is a article that refers to the hit Netflix series Orange is the new black. Orange is the new black is based on the best selling memoir of piper kerman, a white blonde midleclass graduate who got involved in the drug trade while involved in a lesbian realationship. The drug ring that she was a part of eventually got caught and even though piper had moved on with her life, was engaged to a man and had been law abiding for a couple years. She was named as a collaborator by someone and ended up having to take a deal for her involvement in the drug ring which got her a year in federal prison.

This is the story of Piper Kerman, and how her personal story from being in prison relates to that of other female offenders. Kerman came from a well educated family, who were mostly doctors, lawyers, or teachers.“Much to the skepticism of my father and grandfather,” she writes, Kerman had majored in theater (Kerman, p. 4), and graduated from Smith College in New England. After college, her classmates and friends were going off to their graduate school programs or new jobs. Kerman, however, decided to stay in Massachusetts. She felt unmotivated pursuing a career in theater, and did not have an interest in truly continuing on with her education. Furthermore, she also felt that she did not have a “meaningful career” (Kerman, p. 4). Kerman

The Netflix series Orange Is the New Black has caused some controversy referring to the experiences of the women in prison and contains different types of characters from lesbians, bisexuals and transgender as well as references to Latinas, Russians, blacks and whites. For my proposal, I will be doing a feminist analysis on the first season of OITNB, concentrating on the first three episodes [I wasn’t ready, Tit punch & Lesbian request denied] and specifying on 4 main characters: Piper, Big Boo Sophia and Sophia.

Representation of gender in Orange is the new black Season 2 Episode 1 Orange is the new black is a popular American comedy series which aired on Netflix. In this essay I look at how the show represents gender within the first episode of season two. (Orange is the new black, 2014). As you can see in Fig 1 the slogan on the promotional poster for Orange is the new black reads “Every sentence is a story” referring to prison sentences and the show does manage to live up to this idea where the female inmates are concerned, each one gets flashbacks which shows how they we’re the victim of circumstance, however this is not the case for the male inmates.

Orange is The New Black is a new and innovative series aired on Netflix that follows the life of Piper Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling. Chapman was sentenced to fifteen months and serves her prison term at Litchfield Correctional Facility. She acquired the charge of criminal conspiracy after transporting a suitcase full of drug money to her then drug-running girlfriend Alex Vause, who is portrayed by Laura Prepon. Piper’s decade-old crime finally caught up to her. She has to give up her upper-class routine and her fiancé Larry, portrayed by Jason Biggs, for an orange jumpsuit and the new prison environment she was hoping to elude. The series follows Chapman’s unique experiences inside the prison, explores her interactions with other inmates and shows her animosity towards her ex-girlfriend Alex who happens to be in the same prison.

Orange is the New Black is a successful Netflix series set at a women’s prison Litchfield Penitentiary, located in upstate New York. The conditions of the facility are considered subpar and even inhuman, where most of the Litchfield staff are males, who tend to exact their power and will on the female inmates One of supporting characters of the show is Sophia Burest. Sophia exudes women empowerment through her confidence, stance on rights and fair and equal treatment of the inmates, while maintaining the very essence of femininity. Sophia prides herself on her looks and being as fashionable as one can be while in prison. The creation of couture shower sandals made from duct tape and cardboard and her beauty salon reinforces Sophie’s drive and

After reading A Woman Doing Life : Notes from a Prison for Women, I learned a lot more than I thought I knew about the life of women in jails or prisons. Erin George , the main character , gives readers an ethnographic insight on the struggles women face in prison. The hardships women face in prison consist of, and are limited to harsh shakedowns, poor medical treatment, and changes within the prison system that intentionally dehumanizes women inmates. Erin George before prison was a middle class women who seem to live a decent life, she is a mother of 3 and had a great support system within her family. She was happily married until she was convicted of murdering her husband which landed her six-hundred-three years in prison.

The judicial system has negatively impacted the African American population with mass incarceration, especially for African American women. African American women are being incarcerated at all time high, and there should be a national outcry for these women. When women are incarcerated, she is labeled and stigmatized by their incarceration. Society views incarcerated women as deviant who has gone against social norms. However, research and data has shown that more men are imprisoned, but women serve longer sentences for the same charge. Incarceration is time for self-learning, self-evaluating and self-caring to become a changed person than before entering prison. This is the purpose of incarceration force an individual to

Orange is the new black is a show that basis women's views from a prison who are not terrible people however they ended up doing something if not for themselves but for someone else that gets them in trouble with the law. Necessarily wasn't the best idea or the right thing to do. The women are viewed as being strong or weak emotionally independent, dependent.

In this society, depending on the crime many people may view women in prison as people who should be kept off the streets, such as thugs, gang members, and women who are drug addicts. A big misunderstanding that people have is that they see them as a lost cause. However, through each of these stories you get to know each person and their life stories

Most people are aware that prisoners possess zero authority in the prison system. They have no control over any aspect of their daily lives, but instead they are minded by prison jurisdiction. Prison guards and wardens possess the power to do anything that they please within those brick walls. This is an issue that society has been aware of for many decades; however, there has been little to no effort to change the conditions. Many prisoners have sought to inform society of how these prison authority figures abuse their power by producing many different types of media. One of those individual’s is the poet, and former prisoner Carolyn Baxter. While being incarcerated in the New York City women’s correctional facility, Baxter wrote a poem entitled 35 Years a Correctional Officer. In this poem she expresses the motif of power by telling the story of a correctional officer who was in fact abusing her authority to satisfy her own needs. Baxter reveals this motif by cunningly using the literary elements of situational irony and tone.

Orange is the new black is a Netflix original series about the functional ability of a woman's prison in upstate New York. Integrity, power, and privilege all work together to create many of the situations that arise. Litchfield prison is made up of white male officers, and different racial groups that are clearly divided. For each race, loosely made up of: blacks, latinos, whites, “others”, and a group of older women known as “the golden girls”, there is a sector of living. Blacks in one block, with a bathroom only for them, whites in another, etc. Conflict theory and symbolic interactionism are both excellent theories to examine this series by. Conflict theory, a multi-part theory about both race and gender, is applicable to Orange Is The New Black because of the degrading treatment of the women and the denial of their basic feminine needs. Symbolic interactionism can be applied to most situations that occur in the show. Through these theories social interactions in Orange Is The New Black can be looked at and better understood.

When an individual is introduced to the prison life, after violating rules and laws, he or she must come to terms about the journey he or she are about to take behind bars in prison. No one can save them, or do their time for them, and a majority of their freedom has been stripped from them either temporarily or permanently. Prison life deals with all walks of life and is not discriminative toward any race. In this paper I will discuss my perspective on prison life, policies I would enforce an inmate’s need for respect, changes on correctional policy, and why people commit crimes.