The help can be viewed through the critical perspectives of Gender, Psychological and Psychoanalytical. These two perspectives to give added depth or to better explain why the movie portrays and develops characters in a certain way. It is worth noting that the Gender critical perspective will have a lot of crossover with historical and cultural given the circumstances in which this story is set.
In the film ‘the help’ it is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960’s. It follows the story of Skeeter (protagonist), Hilly (antagonist), Mini (catalyst) and other characters during race wars, segregation, power plays, and general struggles of day to day life in a Racist rural country town.
During this multimodal presentation I’m going to be looking at both the critical perspectives simultaneously to give both the gender …show more content…
Is when Hilly gets told off by here husband and then turns around and tells the maid to change the task of getting her husband a sand which (play clip). The gender role which is clearly laid out in the film is that the women in a relationship answers to the husband with no questions answered. Similarly, though it is seen that African American women have to answer to Men in their own culture and White women that employee them. Gender roles there fore fit the stereotype of the time, in todays society it is unacceptable to treat any women with the level of disrespect show in the clip. If we Psychoanalyse this clip this clip, we can see clearly defined the need of women to exert their dominance over the maids. The gender roles that they have to fulfil takes a tole of them as they have little power in their relationship so in turn they exert their dominance over the maids. If we psychoanalyse the gender of the author Tate Taylor being a male, he would’ve designed clips like this to show the power in balance and set parameters of women in the
In the film ‘the help’ it is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960’s. It follows the story of Skeeter (protagonist), Hilly (antagonist), Mini (catalyst) and other characters during race wars, segregation, power plays, and general struggles of day to day life in a Racist rural country town.
During this multimodal presentation I’m going to be looking at both the critical perspectives simultaneously to give both the gender …show more content…
Is when Hilly gets told off by here husband and then turns around and tells the maid to change the task of getting her husband a sand which (play clip). The gender role which is clearly laid out in the film is that the women in a relationship answers to the husband with no questions answered. Similarly, though it is seen that African American women have to answer to Men in their own culture and White women that employee them. Gender roles there fore fit the stereotype of the time, in todays society it is unacceptable to treat any women with the level of disrespect show in the clip. If we Psychoanalyse this clip this clip, we can see clearly defined the need of women to exert their dominance over the maids. The gender roles that they have to fulfil takes a tole of them as they have little power in their relationship so in turn they exert their dominance over the maids. If we psychoanalyse the gender of the author Tate Taylor being a male, he would’ve designed clips like this to show the power in balance and set parameters of women in the