Journey Of Discovery Essay

The quest towards determining one’s identity and understanding who you are is never an easy task, and society has a way of making that burden worse on women. Undergoing a journey of discovery seems like the obvious solution, but with the lack of female role models doing so, young girls find themselves lost. Through the semester, scientific journeys of discovery such as Charles Darwin’s and even journeys of discovery in film have been covered, but only highlight the absence of female protagonists. This implies that journeys of discoveries are male centric, and displays that the possibility for women to make themselves known in these endeavors is low until equality between the sexes is reached.
It’s easy to look back at these male dominated …show more content…
This is because often females must find empowerment in revenge, which is hard to justify with our society’s increasing desire to “live and let go.” Alina’s story is differentiated by the fact that not only the change in sex of her love interest, but by the fact that Alina is motivated by love. Alina has a desire to rescue Voichita, wanting her to abandon her faith and run away with her to Germany. On the other hand, Voichita is devoted to her religion, and wants only for Alina to be comforted by work, prayer, and spiritual discipline.
Beyond the Hills makes a valiant effort to level the playing field between male and female journeys of discovery in film, and thus promotes the equality that feminism stands for. Often times, a ‘feminist’ film in Hollywood may lead someone to think of a female protagonist who fights people two times their size and wins. The problem with this particular brand of feminism is that the women portrayed have to be more like men before they can be considered truly empowered women – having to flaunt weapons and muscles and abandon all sense of femininity they have in order to be viewed as