In the movie Legally Blonde, Elle Woods is portrayed as the typical ditzy blonde. She is beautiful, president of her sorority, rich, and has a handsome boyfriend. It seems she has the perfect life. Her life is turned upside down when her boyfriend, Warner, dumps her because she doesn’t fit his idea of a perfect wife. This devastates Elle, yet motivates her to prove to her boyfriend that she is smart. Although Elle is stratified as being the typical blonde with no brains, she found her personal empowerment and created social change.
Elle was stratified by everyone as the typical rich, blonde. Warner dumped her because she wasn’t smart enough for him and she didn’t fit into the right class that he felt his wife should. When she went into a department store the sales lady assumed she was
This movie really shows us that people don’t always fit into the categories we place them in. For Elle, she rose above her imposed conditioning and found her empowerment and used it to create social change. By the end of the movie we saw her not by the color of her hair and intelligence, but respected her for her accomplishments. I think this is a great movie for society to hopefully see past our appearances and classes and respect each other for our inner strengths. Also that we shouldn’t condition young girls into thinking that they are useless or dumb, but very powerful young women.
During the course of her time at Harvard, Elle, found her empowerment. There were times that she was knocked down by others but this motivated her to continue. For example, when she told her parents that she was going to Harvard
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