The film The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann through the lens of a feminist demonstrates the poor quality of living for women during the twenties. The film is narrated by Nick Carraway, an average twenties Wall street businessman. After Nick moves to New York, he befriends his new rich neighbour Jay Gatsby. Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan, a past lover of Gatsby, is married to Tom Buchanan. Jay is determined to reunite with his love, Daisy, and asks Nick to help get them together. Luhrmann uses the feminist literary theory to portray the negative affects on women from female oppression not only in society but internally as well.
The feminist literary theory, also known as feminist criticism, is about how the world has oppressed the female gender both in real life and within media. A common feminist advocates their belief …show more content…
These oppressions act as wires, like those of a bird cage, encaging women in these societies. Within the film, it is evident through the scene in which Nick attends one of Gatsby’s parties for the first time that very few women have successful careers. Nick observes REWATCH SCENE. During this era, women were not thought of as capable of having jobs, females were simply arm candy for the men. A woman’s value was determined primarily by the wealth of her husband and the wealth of the husband often helps improve the artificial beauty of the wife. Hence, amount of money the husband has depicts how society views the wife. There are little to no women shown as successful career women in the film. Within the patriarchal society of the film, is was common and accepted that men cheat on their wives however a cheating wife was quite degrading. It was socially accepted for men to behave in this irrational way but a women behaving in the same manner would be treated much worse. Females were treated with a much lower amount of respect than
The feminist literary theory, also known as feminist criticism, is about how the world has oppressed the female gender both in real life and within media. A common feminist advocates their belief …show more content…
These oppressions act as wires, like those of a bird cage, encaging women in these societies. Within the film, it is evident through the scene in which Nick attends one of Gatsby’s parties for the first time that very few women have successful careers. Nick observes REWATCH SCENE. During this era, women were not thought of as capable of having jobs, females were simply arm candy for the men. A woman’s value was determined primarily by the wealth of her husband and the wealth of the husband often helps improve the artificial beauty of the wife. Hence, amount of money the husband has depicts how society views the wife. There are little to no women shown as successful career women in the film. Within the patriarchal society of the film, is was common and accepted that men cheat on their wives however a cheating wife was quite degrading. It was socially accepted for men to behave in this irrational way but a women behaving in the same manner would be treated much worse. Females were treated with a much lower amount of respect than