Alison Bechdel

his/her children to look and behave a certain way. By shaping his/her children this way, parents are starting to look at his/her children as a second chance to express the parent’s suppressed wants. Although many people assume that Yang/Liew and Bechdel believe that a child will allow his/her parent to live through them because the parent is the authority figure, I believe the authors are arguing that it is up to a child to decide the person he/she truly wants to be. Through the comic books The…

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home is a work that founded on conflicts and paradoxes between outward appearance and meaning. Even the title Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic appears incomprehensible. The phrase “Fun Home” all the same for first Family funeral home, that evidently is not something, a number of us would consider being fun. We tend to contemplate the phase “Fun Home” in relevancy the family’s actual house; it is clear that their family life is not notably fun with its upsides of…

emotions, the obvious difference being that characters in memoirs are real and characters in fiction are fake. However, what makes characters in memoirs understood as literary characters? In the graphic novel memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel, uses illustration and simplistic language to develop the characters of her family to the reader, conveying her complex relationship with her father and the struggles of life in a closed minded town. By comparing characters in memoirs to…

Alison indirectly conveys that her mother, Helen found out about the hidden truth of Bruce, soon after marriage. He use to have sex with younger men. Helen discovered the truth of Bruce being homosexual, she had a choice to let go of Bruce and continue her…

Much of the credit for that can go to Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist who invented the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in films. It first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. Bechdel credited the idea to a friend, Liz Wallace, to the writings of Virginia Woolf. The Bechdel test asks “whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than…

attention to this fact with the help of the Bechdel test, which points out if a movie has (1) at least two named women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something besides men. Germany has not introduced the Bechdel test to its cinemas. That is why this paper deals with the problem statement: To what extent can the Bechdel test regarding gender equality in movies be applied to the German cinema? The research questions focus on the terminology of the Bechdel test and the cultural…

Homosexuality in the 1960’s wasn’t as open and fortunate as it is today. The same time period where Alison Bechdel and her two brothers being raised in west Pennsylvania in her graphic novel Fun Home, Her father Bruce and self were going through sexuality identification problems at the same time. Although it is not forwardly said but with evidence from the text, Bruce may have committed suicide in result of holding his true identity from the public, his wife Helen and family and covering up his…

Through Men’s Eyes The hard-boiled detective story is an American classic, featuring men who speak curtly and without shame, a mystery that often involves danger, and alluding women. Since its publication in 1929, Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon has been used throughout English classes in grade schools and universities as a way to explore the theme of greed and deception. Despite this, The Maltese Falcon can also be studied in other branches of academic discipline. A student taking a…

a different way to seek encouragement. Jocelyn Murphy, an undergraduate at the University of Arkansas, whose thesis paper was published on the school’s website, examines the use of the Bechdel test to show how women are underrepresented in films. The Bechdel Test was created by a cartoonist, Alison Bechdel, in 1985. The test is used to determine how “well-rounded and complete” representation of women is in movies” (Murphy 6). The test answers the questions: “Are there at least two women in…

Homes are normally thought of as places filled with love, where families grow and care for one another. Yet, for young girls and women the home is a place where they learn their limitations in society. Females learn their appropriate place in the outside world by their time spent in the home. In all of the books we read this semester, we saw roles for females become confined as they drew closer to the gates of womanhood. As Thomas Foster states in his novel, Transformations of Domesticity in…