3. PURPOSE
a. The purpose of Mindy’s narrative is to educate her audience on how the filming industry and Hollywood portrays woman and set high standards and expectations to satisfy the male character. This illustrates one of the main themes known as ‘male dominance’ that is portrayed throughout her narrative. This theme is evident as Mindy describes each archetype; she ends each anecdote with each woman satisfying and being loved by a male character, despite any flaws or struggle that she may present. For example, in the anecdote The Klutz Mindy describes this type of woman one hundred percent perfect yet she has a flaw of being clumsy and “palatable”(Kaling, 73). Despite, her clumsiness Mindy ends the paragraph saying, “But Fred Tom loves …show more content…
The original intended audience as implied would be Hollywood and the filming industry. These industries set such strict and high standards on women working within their films and TV shows where they demand woman to be portrayed in a ‘special way’ that meet their standards and expectations in order to satisfy the needs, wants, and anticipations of males who want or hope to have this ‘ideal’ woman in their lives.
i. The pronouns that the author uses are, “I” as she refers to herself. She also uses “you” referring to her audience and readers. In addition, she uses pronouns like “she and her” as she refers to female characters that she describes within each archetype. She also uses “he” referring to male characters in her narrative. Furthermore, she uses “they” when she describes more than one character in her narrative.
ii. Phrases that were used to identify the audience were, “…executives wrack their brains to find some kind of flaw in her that still allows her to be palatable” (Kaling, 73). “But Fred Tom loves her anyway” (Kaling, 73). (… but she is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring, he deserves a woman who will find him fascinating and pull him out of himself by forcing him to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool” (Kaling, 73). Through these phrases we see the standards that Hollywood as well expects and demands on female characters to fulfill their standards in order to satisfy the “male fantasy” as Mindy puts it. It is very clear that Hollywood
a. The purpose of Mindy’s narrative is to educate her audience on how the filming industry and Hollywood portrays woman and set high standards and expectations to satisfy the male character. This illustrates one of the main themes known as ‘male dominance’ that is portrayed throughout her narrative. This theme is evident as Mindy describes each archetype; she ends each anecdote with each woman satisfying and being loved by a male character, despite any flaws or struggle that she may present. For example, in the anecdote The Klutz Mindy describes this type of woman one hundred percent perfect yet she has a flaw of being clumsy and “palatable”(Kaling, 73). Despite, her clumsiness Mindy ends the paragraph saying, “But Fred Tom loves …show more content…
The original intended audience as implied would be Hollywood and the filming industry. These industries set such strict and high standards on women working within their films and TV shows where they demand woman to be portrayed in a ‘special way’ that meet their standards and expectations in order to satisfy the needs, wants, and anticipations of males who want or hope to have this ‘ideal’ woman in their lives.
i. The pronouns that the author uses are, “I” as she refers to herself. She also uses “you” referring to her audience and readers. In addition, she uses pronouns like “she and her” as she refers to female characters that she describes within each archetype. She also uses “he” referring to male characters in her narrative. Furthermore, she uses “they” when she describes more than one character in her narrative.
ii. Phrases that were used to identify the audience were, “…executives wrack their brains to find some kind of flaw in her that still allows her to be palatable” (Kaling, 73). “But Fred Tom loves her anyway” (Kaling, 73). (… but she is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring, he deserves a woman who will find him fascinating and pull him out of himself by forcing him to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool” (Kaling, 73). Through these phrases we see the standards that Hollywood as well expects and demands on female characters to fulfill their standards in order to satisfy the “male fantasy” as Mindy puts it. It is very clear that Hollywood