In “All About Eve” Margo ultimately triumphs over Eve.
To what extent do you agree?
Joseph Mankiewicz’s melodrama “All about eve”, in the context of the 1950’s provides the audience with an insight into the pretentious and ruthless world of the theatre. Margo Channing and her newly appointed “junior” competitor Eve are viewed as too ambitious by the 1950’s audience, who encouraged women to be stereotypical wives rather than independent career women. Both actresses attempt to find happiness and victory in their own ways, with Margo ultimately triumphing and having a brighter outcome than Eve due to the audience’s beliefs that a woman’s success will not bring her long lasting satisfaction, but marriage will.
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Eve cared nothing about the people she hurt, thinking only of herself which only allowed Margo to maintain and create stronger bonds showing that underneath her rough exterior lies a loyal women who treasures her friends. Margo finally gets her priorities straight as seen in the 1950’s while Eve is left behind to deal with Phoebe and her dangerous career. Margo is granted success and triumph over Eve and appears victorious as she is now a jobless, “married lady”. Margo finally begins to be comfortable with her age and resolves her personal problems by accept that Bill loves her for who she is, “offstage or on”. She learns that she can have a life outside of the world of the theatre and still remains secure in her status as one of theatre’s most important actresses, an “unforgettable Peter Pan”. She no longer feels “unwanted or insecure or unloved”, while Eve is no “champion”, and nothing but award and the flattery of an even younger woman with even more
To what extent do you agree?
Joseph Mankiewicz’s melodrama “All about eve”, in the context of the 1950’s provides the audience with an insight into the pretentious and ruthless world of the theatre. Margo Channing and her newly appointed “junior” competitor Eve are viewed as too ambitious by the 1950’s audience, who encouraged women to be stereotypical wives rather than independent career women. Both actresses attempt to find happiness and victory in their own ways, with Margo ultimately triumphing and having a brighter outcome than Eve due to the audience’s beliefs that a woman’s success will not bring her long lasting satisfaction, but marriage will.
Mankiewicz suggests that ambitious …show more content…
Eve cared nothing about the people she hurt, thinking only of herself which only allowed Margo to maintain and create stronger bonds showing that underneath her rough exterior lies a loyal women who treasures her friends. Margo finally gets her priorities straight as seen in the 1950’s while Eve is left behind to deal with Phoebe and her dangerous career. Margo is granted success and triumph over Eve and appears victorious as she is now a jobless, “married lady”. Margo finally begins to be comfortable with her age and resolves her personal problems by accept that Bill loves her for who she is, “offstage or on”. She learns that she can have a life outside of the world of the theatre and still remains secure in her status as one of theatre’s most important actresses, an “unforgettable Peter Pan”. She no longer feels “unwanted or insecure or unloved”, while Eve is no “champion”, and nothing but award and the flattery of an even younger woman with even more