Gender Roles In Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief

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Femininity or the quality of being female, And both texts with many personae depicting that female characters of being more masculine. The novel tends to challenge traditional gender representations, with females being strong, challenging and courageous women. The film, however, shows women to be small, weak and "An Exhibit", this supports the contention as the film 'grease' released August 3rd, 1978, is a traditional film and thus has traditional gender representations.

An example of such traditional representations may be ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ZS9SXH3DfT8 ) here we see Danny going from a less masculine or, more traditionally feminine features such as becoming the love interest and the weakness. This is justified as he quickly changes so his "friends" see him as his masculine self. Such behaviour is commonly found in society and is part of group behaviour and social patterns, grease, however, blows

In Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief we see Annabeth, Percy, and Grover as they go on their quest to save the world and Percy's mother with Annabeth being an important part of the team's success with her great intelligence. We find her natural talents to be relied on throughout the book. Percy, however, is heavily flawed and is seen relying, upon other people, a traditionally feminine thing to do. If Percy had been more powerful and pushed to be the leader and the strongest carrying Annabeth instead of the other way around this would support traditional instead of modern opinions. In grease, however, our storyline is based by Sandy hopelessly chasing Danny as she wishes to rely on his love, a traditional feminine representation. As females are meant to rely on the men's love and care to survive. An example of such contrasting ideas of both texts finds Danny showing off his masculinity with his slick hair and leather jacket. However, Percy is dressed casually chasing the