What Are Gender Roles In The Godfather
Rafael Aziz
English 112
Professor Julian
8 March 2014
The Godfather The Godfather was regarded as the second best films of all time after the Shaw-shank Redemption. The Godfather employs a classic Italian-American mafia crime family in New York and Nevada. Vito Corleone as the founder of the Corleone crime family. An immigrant from Sicily who witnessed both his parents shot by a different don. He has four children and a step son whom he had adopted. Michael Corleone as the second Godfather to the Corleone crime family. Santino (Sonny) Corleone who is the eldest son and was to be the newly crowned don of the family until his death. Tom Hagen who is the adopted son and childhood friend of Sonny, he serves as the councilor of the don. …show more content…
The first film of the Godfather trilogy is portraying women as child bearers and not present in business negotiations in the presence of men. They have very little influence on the mens decisions if present at all. Throughout the movie mama Corleone was with other women and had an apron on her most of the time. She would reside in the kitchen as do all the wives of other characters. She is present multiple times carrying a screaming child and always calming a screaming child. Woman in the movie are not included in any business talks and are rarely seen in the study of the don. The women in the Godfather trilogy are shown as caretakers. Taking care of the house, the kids and ensuring the overall well being of the men. They are considered to be the least important worry that they may have on their list. They depend on the women to keep their personal life well taken care of. An example is the role of women when don Vito was hospitalized. Multiple grandchildren came to see Vito accompanied by their mothers and were escorted right back out and the door was shut on them so the men could talk business. The idea that women were seen as the least important task is protryaed in the treatment of Kay and Connie. Kay being the girlfriend of Michael in the beginning of the film and later to be his wife. After the killig of Sollozo and Captain McClusky, Michael fled to Sicily for a year. He had married an Italian native by the name of Apollonia and was later murdered in viscious car explosion. After the death of Sonny, Mike came back and asked Kay to marry him. He had expected Kay to just marry him and to be honored to marry a Corleone. Throughout his life as an Italian observing his mother and his sister laws, the women were always obedient in everything. Even when Mike went to marry Apollonia he had asked her father not her. When she was informed of the marriage, she had just agreed
English 112
Professor Julian
8 March 2014
The Godfather The Godfather was regarded as the second best films of all time after the Shaw-shank Redemption. The Godfather employs a classic Italian-American mafia crime family in New York and Nevada. Vito Corleone as the founder of the Corleone crime family. An immigrant from Sicily who witnessed both his parents shot by a different don. He has four children and a step son whom he had adopted. Michael Corleone as the second Godfather to the Corleone crime family. Santino (Sonny) Corleone who is the eldest son and was to be the newly crowned don of the family until his death. Tom Hagen who is the adopted son and childhood friend of Sonny, he serves as the councilor of the don. …show more content…
The first film of the Godfather trilogy is portraying women as child bearers and not present in business negotiations in the presence of men. They have very little influence on the mens decisions if present at all. Throughout the movie mama Corleone was with other women and had an apron on her most of the time. She would reside in the kitchen as do all the wives of other characters. She is present multiple times carrying a screaming child and always calming a screaming child. Woman in the movie are not included in any business talks and are rarely seen in the study of the don. The women in the Godfather trilogy are shown as caretakers. Taking care of the house, the kids and ensuring the overall well being of the men. They are considered to be the least important worry that they may have on their list. They depend on the women to keep their personal life well taken care of. An example is the role of women when don Vito was hospitalized. Multiple grandchildren came to see Vito accompanied by their mothers and were escorted right back out and the door was shut on them so the men could talk business. The idea that women were seen as the least important task is protryaed in the treatment of Kay and Connie. Kay being the girlfriend of Michael in the beginning of the film and later to be his wife. After the killig of Sollozo and Captain McClusky, Michael fled to Sicily for a year. He had married an Italian native by the name of Apollonia and was later murdered in viscious car explosion. After the death of Sonny, Mike came back and asked Kay to marry him. He had expected Kay to just marry him and to be honored to marry a Corleone. Throughout his life as an Italian observing his mother and his sister laws, the women were always obedient in everything. Even when Mike went to marry Apollonia he had asked her father not her. When she was informed of the marriage, she had just agreed