Gender Roles and Values- Elizabeth, Orlando, 'Gender Roles'
To be revealing and provocative, the construction of a text must not only challenge conventional roles and values but also intrigue the responder. To what extent have the composers of TWO prescribed texts and one of your own choosing achieved this?
In order for a text to remain, relevant and intriguing to responders throughout many contexts, it must challenge conventional roles and values in a revealing and provocative manner. A role that is vital to human understanding is the concept of gender and the effect it has on identity. Through the challenging of these binary gender roles, Shekhar Kapur’s , ‘Elizabeth,’ Anne Taubeneck’s, ‘Gender Roles,’ and Virginia Woolf’s, ‘Orlando’ remain provocative and intriguing texts throughout the ages.
Shekhar Kapur’s, 1998 film ‘Elizabeth,’ gives evidence to how composers use language as a technique to construct and convey masculine and feminine aspects of identity by investigating its contextual foundations. Language used throughout ‘Elizabeth’ such as metaphor and language constraints of the film’s context, facilitate the character development of protagonist, Elizabeth, from a contextually young, carefree princess, distracted by the opposite sex; to a strong minded, ‘Virgin Queen,’ whom renounces all maternal and matrimonial functions to rule as a successful monarch over a dominant patriarchy that had once restrained her. This development challenges contextual gender roles and values’, revealing that there are no real differences between what is essentially masculine or feminine. Kapur utilises filmic technique alongside contextual language and dialogue, to dramatize scenes and visually exaggerate aspects of gender roles allowing for the subtle challenging of these established principles.
Male ideals and expectations of women, particularly a female monarch, in the context of the film are clearly exhibited when Elizabeth’s advisor, Sir William, in a patronising tone states, “Madam, until you marry and produce an heir,
In order for a text to remain, relevant and intriguing to responders throughout many contexts, it must challenge conventional roles and values in a revealing and provocative manner. A role that is vital to human understanding is the concept of gender and the effect it has on identity. Through the challenging of these binary gender roles, Shekhar Kapur’s , ‘Elizabeth,’ Anne Taubeneck’s, ‘Gender Roles,’ and Virginia Woolf’s, ‘Orlando’ remain provocative and intriguing texts throughout the ages.
Shekhar Kapur’s, 1998 film ‘Elizabeth,’ gives evidence to how composers use language as a technique to construct and convey masculine and feminine aspects of identity by investigating its contextual foundations. Language used throughout ‘Elizabeth’ such as metaphor and language constraints of the film’s context, facilitate the character development of protagonist, Elizabeth, from a contextually young, carefree princess, distracted by the opposite sex; to a strong minded, ‘Virgin Queen,’ whom renounces all maternal and matrimonial functions to rule as a successful monarch over a dominant patriarchy that had once restrained her. This development challenges contextual gender roles and values’, revealing that there are no real differences between what is essentially masculine or feminine. Kapur utilises filmic technique alongside contextual language and dialogue, to dramatize scenes and visually exaggerate aspects of gender roles allowing for the subtle challenging of these established principles.
Male ideals and expectations of women, particularly a female monarch, in the context of the film are clearly exhibited when Elizabeth’s advisor, Sir William, in a patronising tone states, “Madam, until you marry and produce an heir,