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Depiction of women in film often leaves women with no real options when it comes to accepting roles to play. One could even argue the roles women are accepting may actually be contributing to and reinforcing the social norm of women as characters that never develop as characters beyond being sexual objects for the viewing pleasure of men. John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love, which takes place in the 16th century London England and Georg Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, which takes place in 1930s Germany, both depict women on stage and share the struggles women face when they pursue their dreams. For the duration of this essay we will examine how women are portrayed in film and while they attempt to exude power and confidence they are brought back down by society their purpose on screen to be viewed and fantasized by men as well as subliminally remind other women of their superior role in society.
In Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, the female lead Lulu portrayed by Louise Brooks is having an affair with a man, Dr. Schon. Dr. Schon is soon going to marry a woman that is more …show more content…
The movie shows how it was unacceptable for women to take the roles of women. It was so unacceptable in fact that men would instead crossdress and play the female roles. Andrew Gurr, and Karoline Szatek provide some explanation and possible insight for the underlying reason for female roles not being portrayed by females in their article, Women and Crowds at the Theater,
Audiences at the early modern theaters from Shakespeare 's time up to the closure of 1642 were different from modern spectators in two distinct ways. First, they behaved as crowds, not as individuals, and second the female element in their composition influenced their behavior more strongly than the witnesses of the time were prepared to
Depiction of women in film often leaves women with no real options when it comes to accepting roles to play. One could even argue the roles women are accepting may actually be contributing to and reinforcing the social norm of women as characters that never develop as characters beyond being sexual objects for the viewing pleasure of men. John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love, which takes place in the 16th century London England and Georg Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, which takes place in 1930s Germany, both depict women on stage and share the struggles women face when they pursue their dreams. For the duration of this essay we will examine how women are portrayed in film and while they attempt to exude power and confidence they are brought back down by society their purpose on screen to be viewed and fantasized by men as well as subliminally remind other women of their superior role in society.
In Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, the female lead Lulu portrayed by Louise Brooks is having an affair with a man, Dr. Schon. Dr. Schon is soon going to marry a woman that is more …show more content…
The movie shows how it was unacceptable for women to take the roles of women. It was so unacceptable in fact that men would instead crossdress and play the female roles. Andrew Gurr, and Karoline Szatek provide some explanation and possible insight for the underlying reason for female roles not being portrayed by females in their article, Women and Crowds at the Theater,
Audiences at the early modern theaters from Shakespeare 's time up to the closure of 1642 were different from modern spectators in two distinct ways. First, they behaved as crowds, not as individuals, and second the female element in their composition influenced their behavior more strongly than the witnesses of the time were prepared to