Since the male protagonist in the story presents a male, mainstream viewpoint, a feminist point of view may lead readers to a more balanced understanding of the character. .
Apart from this, it is apparent that Hornby has developed a complex character through integrating gender stereotypes into one realistic personality, a technique also seen in his other novels. In How to be Good, for example, he combines the obedient wife stereotype with the working woman stereotype in order to create his protagonist. A closer look at how Honrby accomplishes this will give readers a better grasp of the writing style of a contemporary author whose works may be considered classics in due time. .
In light of this, this critique shall use the Feminist Literary Theory. This theory, according to Carol Pajaron of the Ateneo de Manila High School English Department, compares and contrasts females in literature with common female stereotypes. In a personal note to this writer, she adds that the theory "also looks at male stereotypes but always paralleled with the female stereotype." To apply this theory, the critique will use the latter definition. The male stereotypes to be used are stereotypes resulting from feminist research regarding how men are portrayed to treat women in literature. These stereotypes will be analyzed independently and then juxtaposed with corresponding sterotypical female characters in the novel. The critique hopes to be faithful to the principle of Feminist Literary Criticism in that it will be "an academic approach to the study of literature which applies feminist thought to the analysis of literary texts and the contexts of their production and reception" (Goodman xi). .
II. Statement of the Problem.
Rob, being the unique and well-developed character that he is, allows readers to either relate to him or despise him. Most men relate to his problem of continually being abandoned by women, while most women despise him for the immaturity that causes this abandonment.
High Fidelity On the surface, High Fidelity is a story about breaking up and getting back together again. ... We only learn about Laura as we learn about Rob's past. ... We learn things as Rob himself is ready to deal with them. ... Yet Frear doesn't trap the audience in Rob's perspective alone. ... High Fidelity is an entertaining, but poignant look at breaking up. ...
High Fidelity is a more modern rendition of Annie Hall, but it centers around a record store owner and movie geek. ... We witness some of the best directing of all time as we are put into the mindset of John Cusack's character, Rob. ... The cameos by Tim Robbins and Bruce Springsteen are also hilarious-especially Robbins who is a high-flying, world music loving, martial arts expert who also looks like some sort of new age hippy and worst of all he's living with Laura, Cusack's ex-girlfriend. ...
Henry Flemming Age Comparison Henry Flemming underwent a major change as he became older. ... Regardless the reason, the older Henry Flemming was much more courageous than he was as a youth and there are a few situations in which he was able to prove that his courage had grown. ... Henry Flemming as a youth was naive and had not matured and these conditions helped in the fact that Henry was not very courageous. ...
Response Bull (1988) studied the behavioral nature of a large herbivorous skink, Trachydosaurus rugous to analyze the reason for social monogamy and mate fidelity. ... This was a clear case of mate fidelity. Consequently, it was suggested that males preferred to choose the female they were successful with the previous year, rather than choose unresponsive (immature) females and waste courtship time. ... It was also observed that males in pairs had food in their mouths more often when females also had food in their mouths than when females had not been feeding. ... Moreover, the reason that Bul...
Throughout this essay we will explore youth and gender stereotyping, the negative effect of gender stereotyping, and, gender stereotyping and the media. Gender stereotyping starts at a young age. ... When males and females feel the same emotions their reactions are totally different. Because of gender stereotyping, males tend to be more passive with emotion, females being more open and expressive. ... They may be good guide lines but, they can rob a child of who they are. ...
Increasing focus on metaphors, as well as stereotypes, have been arising as means to understand and encapsulate society. ... Still a prominent and ever-growing aspect of society, this sub-culture became a paradigm that a sizable conglomerate of people share across the globe, that has pushed a surging movement to break the negative stereotypes relating to females. ... Condit (2001), and "The Egg and The Sperm: How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles," by Emily Martin (2003), discuss the strength of implications held in metaphors, as well as the g...
Cohabitation The article that I used for this abstract was titled "Let's Stop Harassing Couples Who Finally Commit."" This article talks about the movie "High Fidelity- and how every Catholic Priest should see it. The author of this article talks about how priests and parents are against cohab...
Stereotypes and stereotyping has been around for hundreds of years, even though they may not be accurate. ... One major stereotype out there today that isn't necessarily true is that all blonde girls are dumb. ... Even though there have been some movies to try to prove the stereotype as a myth ,such as Legally Blonde and House Bunny, the "dumb blonde" stereotype is still one of the most famous today. ... For example, the valedictorians for the past three years at my high school have been blonde females. Each of these girls have taken Advanced Placement (AP) and College Prep (...
Immediately sex roles are defined and can be divided into stereotypes. ... The criminal justice process has generally reinforced the gender polarization stereotypes. These stereotypes have placed female offenders into two categories. ... This occurs when male judges treat females with more leniency's because society has reinforced the stereotype that females should be managed with a fatherly or protective manner because of the assumption that females have an inherently submissive domestic nature (Parisi, 1982). ... Traditionally stereotyped female type crimes have been property offenses,...
