Uncanny X-Men

In Disney’s live-action movie Beauty and the Beast starring Emma Watson, the creators added many Feminist attributes. Belle is known for being ahead of her time as she walks around the town reading many books; this was because young women and girls were not supposed to read. The creators of this movie included many things to make this movie appeal to young girls and show them how they can do great things. To make the film a more feminist movie the creators changed how Belle dressed, the things Belle

The Jurassic Change Of Boo Radley “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” (Lee 16) In the novel to kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses characterization of Boo to show that

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel in which the theme of savagery versus civilisation is explored. Some British boys are stranded on an isolated island at the time of an imaginary nuclear war. On the island we see conflict between two main characters, Jack and Ralph, who respectively represent civilisation and savagery. This has an effect on the rest of the boys throughout the novel as they delve further and further into savagery. The theme of savagery versus civilisation

A popular topic of debate within the X-Men fandom on the discussion forums of Comic Vine and Reddit and YouTube videos is: was Magneto right? This question is a reference to the character’s political and moral ideology. Yet, this debate is not over whether Magneto is good or evil per se, but instead is framed in the literary tropes of hero, villain, and anti-hero. In this article, I propose to examine this phenomenon of fans passionately sorting Magneto in the box of a literary archetype through

A movie that one would watch and not immediately think “social work,” would be X-Men: First Class. At first glance, it is a simple action movie about mutants with inhuman powers, but upon further inspection, social work concepts are bound to shine through. One concept in particular that becomes a crucial plot point in the movie is ethics. Such a concept leads to a connection between the movie and the ethical principles in social work that can be seen in the characters’ interactions with the main

Both the “X men” and “The Chrysalids” has similar society impressions. People are afraid of mutants and they think that mutants are dangerous. In the “X Men”, there are two groups of mutants, the leaders of the two groups are Xavier and Magneto. Xavier wants to create peace between mutants and human but Magneto wants to start a war between mutants and human. In the Chrysalids, David is the leader of the people who have the ability of telepathy. Gordon is the leader of the mutants in the Fringes

X-Men is a popular series made by Marvel. It details lives of mutants as they fight for good and also their safety against judgemental people. The turmoil of the mutants can be interpreted as the turmoil faced by minority groups. Specifically, in the movies X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past, one of the people who worked on it, Bryan Singer, specifically had it work as an allegory for gay people. These movies are set in the turbulent 60s and 70s, a time of great change for the mutants

X-Men First Class The movie X-Men First Class is a movie based on the X-Men comics. This movie is about how the characters Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr discover they have mutant powers. They take the names Professor X and Magneto and work together to recruit other humans with mutant powers to work for the United States government. They unite to stop Sebastian Shaw, another mutant who uses his power for evil, from starting a nuclear war. Throughout the movie, Charles and Eric begin to view

From the movie titled X-men, The Last Stand, the summary of the story is relating to mutation of few individuals and how they used the mutated gene ability. Some of them used it to fight for unity and peace while some are against it. Charles Xavier has the telepathic ability due to mutation is the one who created the Xavier institution. Xavier institution is an institution which adopt and school for those mutated species on how to control and used their abilities correctly. However, there is a group

Watching “X-Men: The Last Stand” through Feminism and Post-Colonialism Theory “X-Men” is originally published in comics by one of the most famous publisher of American comic books; Marvel comics. X-Men as a series of comic books has been created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby since 1960s. X-Men is the story about the superhero team of mutants who possess X-gene, a genetic trait, which allows the mutant to gain superhuman abilities. “X-Men” has been made as the film-version by 20th Century Fox into film