Roles Of Women In The Godfather Movie Essay

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The famous film based on Mario Puzo’s novel, is based on the crime of the Sicilian family, the Corleone’s. The film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and successfully released in the year of 1972. The Corleone’s are known for their dedication in their family business, and led problems with the women in the film and novel. Women played no at all role within the family business, they never had a say in it or allowed to even hear about it. Their task was to simply be caregivers. These concepts can be expressed through Kay and Connie. Today women have evolved to take part in a successful role in life. Women have the right to have a job and to have an opinion in the family, but weren’t followed by the Corleone family. Instead women were seen …show more content…

It seemed as if the family business came first and then the women. A scene that can be supported by this idea is when Michael leaves to Italy for a year and doesn’t make the effort to contact his wife Kay. This immediately portrays how Michael is focused on only the business and doesn’t care to communicate with his wife. If Michael truly cared for Kay he would of found time to reach her and disregard the business for a little. The last scene of the movie was a very important and really demonstrated the barrier of business and marriage. In typical marriages secrets are not kept from each other, but certainly with Michael and Kay. Kay confronts Michael when he sees Connie screaming and toppling over Michael telling him why he had killed Carlo. When Connie is dismissed, Kay addresses Michael if he had killed Carlo. Michael trying to convey her to believe him says that question was the only question she could ask about his business, and so she asked, and he said no. Kay happily hugs Michael, while he hugs her with remorse knowing he had lied to her. But the moment she left the office and stared back at him with a couple a men congratulating him and filling him with pride, she knew he

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