A Serious Man

benefits as others since in some cases gender and sex identity interpretation interferes with the unalienable right of pursuit of happiness and violates the human right to respect for private life. Sex is “commonly used to refer to a person's status as a man or woman based on biological factors although sex reflects a person's biology, as opposed to gender, which is generally considered to be socially constructed, the biological aspect of the body that determines a person's sex has not yet…

the girl with the dragon tattoo, to show the different possible forms in which female tricksters come. She describes her ability as “an ironic double of the classic male trickster, masquerading, performing, and imitating in ways that offer both serious reenactment and gender-bending parody” (464). Salander’s qualities and features most seem that of a male figure and trickster as she goes against anything ladylike. In contrast, Juleidah is portrayed as “tall as a cypress, with a face like a rose…

In the movie 12 Angry Men, a young man is on trial for murdering his father. The movie opens at a point in the trial after the witnesses have testified, and the prosecution and defense have had their say. It is now up to the twelve men of the jury to decide the fate of the defendant. In this particular case if he is found guilty, he will be sentenced to death by the electric chair. The jury go in to the jury room, sit down, and take a vote. The defendant is found guilty eleven to one, but since…

There are numerous articles about boys, often which focus on the “trouble with teenage boys”. Unfortunately, this negative stereotype can have a detrimental impact on boys’ self-belief and esteem. We can believe in gender equality and, at the same time, celebrate and acknowledge the joyful differences. In 2012, Winifred Robinson, a BBC Radio presenter and journalist, shared her thoughts on the joys of teenage boys which, I think, are really pertinent today. A shared opinion is that boisterous,…

protect your friend, you can’t lie about something this serious, someone died!” “Yes sir I understand.” “You are free to go home.” Adam walks to his house, runs up to his room, slams the door, and punches the wall. “Why didn’t I just lie? Why? It’s all my fault Scott would not be dead and Joseph would not be in jail, if I hadn’t suggested to go drinking. Tears came rolling down Adam’s cheeks. A week later, George walks into Adam’s room. “Yo, man get out of bed, and stop blaming yourself…

supposed to be completing. Consequently, the village “grew tired of pitying the Baptist Parson… and began to think that he was as simple as she” (22). This part of the novel provokes the Dempster’s to be labelled as even more odd, simply because of a man performing the stereotypical female duties. The final event in the novel that labels women with caregiving and cleaning jobs is when Diana takes care of Dunstan in the hospital. Diana “washed [him], attended to the bedpan and urinal, and…

In our modern day society, men are regarded mainly as strong, dominant figures who know exactly what they plan to do, and how they will carry out those plans. To be a man means being powerful and is the epitome of blunt force in human terms. Consequently, those who show weakness are looked down on or shamed, similarly to women who are seen as inferior in strength. In contrast, men are expected to put up a strong front and take out their emotions in a gratuitously violent way that romanticizes…

Lonely men with an itching internal conflict controlling their every action are men without women. The desire to become someone else or even disappear to cope with the hurt and haunting desolation a woman can cause a man to feel is exactly what each male character in Haruki Murakami’s ‘Men Without Women’ feel in one way or another. The confusion life can bring calls for a clear perception of yourself. The characters in the short stories struggle recognizing their internal conflict that is…

character is Jurgis Rudkus. He is portrayed as a strong, young man looking for work. Jurgis’s main goal is to equip for his wife and family, to give them the best in life. Jurgis’s wife Ona is personified as feeble and young perhaps in her teenage years such as fourteen to sixteen when she marries Jurgis. Jurgis promises Ona, “Leave it to me; leave it to me. I will earn more money-I will work harder (20).” It is stereotypical to say that the man in the relationship is the one who goes out…

Gender Theory is a lens that can be applied to a novel by analyzing male and female characters. It involves analyzing gender roles, stereotypes, etc. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, there are different roles assigned to women and men. In the time that the novel took place in, women had the role to be obedient wives and good mothers. Men had the role to wear the pants in the relationship. Some characters in the novel conform to the roles that are given to them, but…