On April 23, 2015, Anastasia's aristocracy had a meeting to sign a peace treaty with their neighboring kingdom. During the meeting, a gas fire started and killed the core people of the aristocracy. Anastasia was on an edge no king or queen to guide them, just chaos. Currently, it is April 23, 2015, there is still no leader. Until a maid of the former queen found a bloodline to a rebellious, reckless teenager me, Toni. I am the heir of the kingdom. Before they addressed me, they have to keep it as a secret from the people. I live on the Southside of Anastasia, every day I am fearful of her life. Gangs, guns, and drugs are right outside her door every day, so I was surprised when the royal soldiers wanted me in the kingdom. My parents didn't
Australian Voices in Film: "The Australian Voice" “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” Essay Question: Stereotyping of character representations. “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is a hilarious comedy, brought together brilliantly by writer and director Stephan Elliot. Tick/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia are two drag queens that travel across Australia on a lavender bus with their transsexual friend Ralph/Bernadette. All three challenge the dominant stereotype of the Australian male.
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them.” -Denis Waitley. This quote can be interpreted to mean that if you accept things as they always were, then stereotypes will never change. However, if you want to change societies generalizations then you need to change your actions. The theme of the novel The Outsiders is do not let stereotypes define who you will become and how you act.
We’ve all heard of Anastasia, right?, the classical tale of a young girl escaping the brutal execution of her family. Well her father, Czar Nicholas II, was the last Russian emperor and pretty much caused the whole “Anastasia” story to happen in the first place. His story is told more through the book Animal Farm, a novel written by George Orwell. This is an allegorical tale that reflects the events of the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm and Czar Nicholas II is connected to the real life events in the Russian Revolution in that his poor leadership skills affect his rule negatively, Farmer Jones is used to represent him, and his representation is accurate and relatable to readers.
The Romanov family story is one that ends in tragedy and mystery. The Romanov dynasty ruled Russia for over 300 years coming to an end with Nicholas II. The book The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & The Fall of Imperial Russia, written by Candace Fleming, tells the story of Tsar Nicholas II of how he came to become the Tsar and fell trying to protect his family. Fleming tells the story of young Nicholas coming to power when his father, Alexander III, died and how ill-prepared Nicholas was to rule due to his father’s inferior teaching skills. The story goes on to Nicholas meeting his future wife, Alexandra, and how they had four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia. With each daughter came a disappointment of not having an heir
The year is 1298, Emperor William and his beloved Lilith are in reign. They have reigned now for 2 years, having two children in that time period. Thanageria, a new but large empire has been aggravating the Emperor. Thana for short, was born from the Fallen Empire of Ankara. Ankara, and Calico's brother land Arabia were enemies beyond compare. The two empires had wars every year, and demolished each other until both empires fell. Calico, fearing Thana will be like Ankara, does not wish to have any ties. Thana fearing the same, wishes not to be friends either. The two newly developed empires grow a hate for each other. It is when their queen Genevieve declares war on Calico. The Thanan soldiers burst into the Calian boarder and burn down everything in their path. They raped, killed and dismantled women, children and even men. Calico was distraught, and fought back. Calian soldiers marched into the Thana boarders destroying everything in their pathway. They killed men, and women. They spared every child they saw. This war lasted 49 years, off and on. They called it "The Great War". It is when Genevieve's cousin, the new king is forced to send the queen to prison. She awaits in her cell for 40 years. It is the day of her execution that 500 Calians tear down the Thanan gates after not being let in, and wait for 6 hours, drinking wine, beer and feasting. The Thanans are terrified of the Calians. The announcer announces the queens execution and the world seems to be silent. The queen is executed within minutes, and the Calians raised their glasses and yelled "Long live Calico!". The Calians left 30 minutes after the execution and celebrated. Calico paid for the food they are, and the torn gates. The country celebrated for a month after the death of the queen and the end of the
Grene, David., and Richmond Alexander Lattimore. Greek Tragedies. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
The concept of a white woman being touched, let alone raped by an African American male was an assumption in the little town of Maycomb Alabama, 1930’s. During this period Mayella is considered helpless due to being a female as well as lonely and afraid considering her status as a poor white piece of trash. She manipulates people by using her social class, gender, and race to her advantage. In particular, her accusations made against Tom Robinson, an African American man. These factors lead to her gaining power with the trial and conviction of Tom Robinson. Race refers to the categorization of people based on physical differences.(“Is Mayella Powerful?” 7) Mayella Ewell had perquisites due to her race, which helped her during the conviction.
According to Oxford Dictionary, stereotype is a preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person or situation (Oxford). But in reality it is more like a subtle form of bias, such as those based on people's gender, race or occupation. For example, Americans are generally considered to be arrogant and materialistic while Asians, on the other hand, are expected to be shrewd but reserved. Obviously, not all Americans are arrogant and not all Asians are shrewd. So, if one just assumes what a person is like and don't look at each person as an individual, he or she is likely to make errors in estimates of a person's character. Such biases are easily ignored, yet are a fact of life. These biases can affect how people see others, as well as themselves, which may lead to unexpected consequences. Thus, stereotyping can influence the communication and understanding between people, usually in a negative way. To examine the side effect brought by stereotyping, I will go through Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Duras’ The Lover and analyze the roles played by stereotype. The protagonists of both books are set in a background, to which they do not originally belong or where is colonized by foreign invaders. Therefore, stereotype becomes a mutual theme and plays an important role in these two books.
In the Iliad, by Homer, women are objectified and sexualized by men, but female goddesses are praised and worshipped by all morals, men and women.
Sexism has occurred throughout history and has impacted women significantly.The Odyssey follows the narrative of a man and looks at love from the perspective of a man. The famed poem was written by an ancient greek man and until recently, has always been translated by a man. For these reasons, The Odyssey provides a great example of how love, women, and marriage have been perceived by society, especially men, in the past. By examining the sexist undertones and the perception of women and love from the men in the epic and comparing those to criticisms made today we can truly understand how far we have come as a society.
The movie The Godfather constantly undercuts the value of women as actual human beings, instead they are merely depicted as homemakers and mothers, though sometimes they are allowed the high status of being a distraction to the men. This last fact is especially evident when Calo says to Michael, “in Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns,” in reference to his infatuation with Apollonia distracting him from staying safe. Moreover, there are three important female characters in the movie, and one gets ignored, one gets beaten, and one gets murdered (climax), which goes to further illustrate the negative idea of women in this movie.
“People are much deeper than stereotypes. That’s the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, ‘I’d have never guessed.’” Says Carson Kressley. Carsons words speak true. We judge people, we stereotype them, because we don’t know them, but does that really make it ok? The answer is no. If you stereotype someone, then you’re just labeling them and what right do you have to be able to do that? You don’t know that person so why should you have a say on what that person is like? Stereotyping has been around for countless of years and sometimes you don’t realize you’re actually doing it, but if you really make the time to get to know the person you just judged I guarantee you that you were most likely wrong about them.
The King’s sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, have fled, raising suspicions of them being the ones who have done the deed. Because of this, a new king is to be appointed tomorrow.
Shrek, an enormous, disgusting green ogre falling in love with a beautiful princess (later turning into a nasty ogre) is a perfect example of a stereotypical fairytale, right? Well in the movie Shrek, the voice over in the trailer talks about a “hero” attempting to rescue a “fair princess” with the help of “his trusty companion." Besides the fact that the hero is a voluptuous green ogre and the companion is a donkey, everything fits in normally to the definition of a traditional fairytale (Diaz). Also according to Mary Kunimitsu, in fantasy films “There may be characters with magical or supernatural abilities such as witches, wizards, superheroes, mythical creatures, talking animals, and ghosts” (Kunimitsu). In Shrek, there are many of these different characters. Therefore, by explanation, a traditional fairytale with the beautiful princess getting saved by the prince and falling in love is exactly what happens in the movie Shrek, just with a twist. The voice over in the trailer for Shrek states it perfectly as he says “Shrek is a highly irreverent take on the classic fairytale” (Adamson). As an untraditional fairytale, and a parody, the movie Shrek poses the breaking of stereotypes of gender and film fairytales all the while keeping the criteria of a fairytale.
On June 18, 1901, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna became parents to Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov. As a child, she was a jokester, had a very lively personality, and was very vivacious; she would always make the whole room light up and was full of energy (Britannica Online). Anastasia would even make her father laugh when she imitated haughty visitors to the palace. One of Anastasia’s many nicknames was “shvibzik” the Russian word for “imp” (Brewster 23), and Anastasia’s French tutor, Pierre Gilliard, said, “She was the imp of the whole house and the glummest of faces would brighten in her presence, for it was impossible to resist her jokes and nonsense”(Brewster 23). During the First World War, when her older sisters, Olga, Tatiana, and her mother worked as nurses in military hospitals, Anastasia was only 13 and therefore she and her older sister Marie were too young to train as nurses; instead they visited the hurt soldiers and cheered them up. “I [Anastasia] sat today with one of our soldiers and helped him learn to read,” wrote Anastasia in a letter to her father (Brewster 46). Meanwhile in the government, revolts and strikes a...