Analysis Of Coraline

Females are often looked down on by society as males stereotypically dominate the roles of machismo and independence, leaving no space for females to demonstrate their own strength. Coraline, a children’s animation intended to be a fantasy but instead a production laced with horror elements, includes numerous female characters that embrace society’s predetermined standards. As the audience follows the journey of the protagonist Coraline, stereotypes of women being dependent and not having a voice are unrefreshingly accepted by the female characters in the film.

Coraline, the protagonist, is introduced into the film as a young, fearless girl who easily rejects the female stereotypes of society, but truthfully, it turns out she still embraces

The mothers’ voices are powerful and override their husbands’ voices throughout the entire film as they are portrayed as the “woman of the house” instead of the “man of the house” and because of that, as women, they are seen as antagonistic, evil characters. In a scene where Coraline complains about the bad dinner with her parents, Coraline is told by her mother that her dad is the one who has to do the cooking, and her other mother does the cleaning, completely enforcing female stereotypes that the cooking and cleaning are to be done by the females. Despite Coraline’s ecstatic enjoyment of the “Other” world, it is brought to the audience’s attention from that scene that Coraline seems to be the one who is trying to enforce gender stereotypes into her own life and her family because of the fact that the “Other” world has another mother who cooks delicious food and another father who is silly and humorous. As Coraline has teetering opinions on her new house and friend, a scene is shown where she is taken to the clothing store to shop for her new school uniform with none other than her mother, the gender who is known to be the most prone to shopping. The “Other Mother’s” first appears in the film stereotypically cooking in the kitchen and a majority throughout the film, she is most often seen cooking delicious food for Coraline. At one point in the film, it is revealed that she makes a brand new outfit for Coraline, accentuating the stereotype that females stay home to cook food and tend to clothes.. In another scene near the end of the movie, the true form of