Wednesday 11 May 2011
Media Similarities
You can relate this novel to any "girl power" movie. For example, "Charlie's Angels". Different goal, but women kicking butt...definitely a major part of it. Even the movie "Chicken Run" is viewed as female power. The movie is mainly female characters fighting against a higher power...rebelling...something that many may not consider due to that fact that it's a cartoon. The main character, Ginger, is one of the most inspiring female characters ever to be "clay mated". Both films, though not quite exactly the same form of girl power, are indeed, empowering.
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To which novel are you referring here?
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The novel that I am referring to here is The Edible Woman. There isn't a specific character empowered, but females in general. Female power is revealed in my novel through Marian being able to realize that her fiancé was not all that great for her. The author's point about empowerment that I found had more to do with being able to do what is right for you, as compared to doing what is right for everyone else. This connects to the feminist lens because if Marian had stayed with her fiancé she would not have been helping herself, and would have been keeping him happy as opposed to keeping herself happy. Which then connects to the point that women can be independent and that men, although they are important, should not control our world. That's what I got from it all anyways...
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