Thelma & Louise

Water Imagery and Symbolism in Love Medicine Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine conveys the state of Native American life in today’s society. Her symbolism stands out to me above all else in the book. While Erdrich uses many symbols and motifs, the most poignant is her water and river imagery and the symbolism behind it. She uses water to symbolize many concepts in the novel, most prominently time and religion. The passage of time being likened to the movement of a river is not an…

Page used the factor of appearance to define the term "flapper". To her, a "flapper" is a woman who is within the age limit (not quite a woman but also not a girl)that would have bobbed hair (the 'badge' of flapper hood) and stylish clothing that no decent women of earlier generations would have even thought about wearing. There were many different explanations of the flapper phenomenon. Some say that it's due to the fact that one-quarter to one-third of urban woman workers live alone, free…

During the early twentieth century, the flapper style began to evolve. It involves women focusing more on their outward appearance and behavior to fit in with other ladies their age. This style seemed to be revolutionary for many women as they viewed the change in expectations for women as liberating. However, depending on the perspective the flapper style can be considered as either restricting or liberating for women. Contrasting perspectives are demonstrated through both Ellen Page’s article,…

Louise Erdrich is an artist in her own right. Her fiction and poetry are filled with mythical characters and settings drawn from her Chippewa heritage examining the complex relationships amongst Native Americans and their battles with the European American community. The different voices and imagery in her work had lead some to compare her to William Faulkner , according to American novelist Philip Roth,“She is, like Faulkner, one of the great American regionalists, bearing the dark knowledge of…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

men do not find this attractive. Men want a woman who “knows her place”, someone who won’t talk back to him or expect to be treated equally. In the movie “Thelma and Louise, Thelma is a housewife who does what her husband tells her to, while Louise works at a dinner she is more outspoken but she is still working under a man. Thelma and Louise having to work harder to be able to express and have a…

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Thelma and Louise (1999) are both similar in that they are both strong feminist texts, addressing and discussing the issues of women’s rights in early and modern society. To represent this issue, as well as others within the text, both employ the use of characterisation, the development of the protagonists, and themes. Characters in the two texts play an important role in expressing the limited freedoms and rights of women and the societal conventions they are…

As will be observed in this review, the critical analyses of the films Thelma and Louise (1991) and The Hunger Games (2012) by applying feminism and semiotics theoretical perspectives, separately to one film and the content of which each can be interpreted following that perspective and theoretical approach. Critically analysing this by an exegesis of the films and the knowledge of theoretical perspectives and philosophy within the content development and critiquing of films wider meanings and…

Tale, Margaret Atwood highlights women’s oppression and lack of freedom in Gilead as the female characters are forced to clothe themselves in specific gowns and unwillingly act as a submissive to the demands of their Commander. On the contrary, Thelma and Louise (1991) displays an epic journey of two women who have set off to escape the issues of their relationships, responsibilities, and problems at home and ultimately break away from the constraints of the world. Both works demonstrate freedom…