Theme Of Conflict In Easy A

The movie Easy A is certainly iconic in countless different ways. First, the hit film gave one of the Hollywood’s well known movie stars, Emma Stone, her stardom. Second, although the movie is certainly controversial due to the sexual context, it has some valuable life lessons. I will be discussing three major conflicts that occur in the movie that include the spread of rumors, the consequences of lying and how exonerating the truth isn’t always simple.

The first conflict begins when Olive (Emma Stone) and her friend Rhiannon are in the bathroom and Olive lies about losing her virginity. One of Olive’s best friends Rhiannon, is the (1) support leader because she is extremely supportive of Olive and is extremely delighted for her. On the other

In this case, Brandon is secretly gay and to avoid being bullied, he asks Olive to make it known they slept together. Olive agrees because of the (6) situational context which is the rumor that started about Olive losing her virginity. However, Brandon becomes the (7) withdrawer because after he obtained what he wanted he doesn’t talk to Olive that much. Meanwhile, Brandon begins to tell his friends how Olive helped him and they begin to ask her for help. Olive becomes a (8) political decision maker because she agrees to help the boys because she wants to gain popularity and attention from her classmates. Consequently, Olive takes two roles in this conflict, first (9) the directive leader because she set the structure for the boys that she helps by setting the rules and plans for each circumstance. Second, Olive becomes a (10) doormat because she is doing these favors for people so they will like her and for her popularity to increase. that started about Olive, she takes on three roles during this

Griffith and contracts a sexually transmitted infected. When Marianne hears that her boyfriend has contracted an STI she immediately blames Olive. In this case, Marianne becomes is the (11) aggressor because she spread another rumor about Olive giving her boyfriend an STI and is continuously putting Olive down with her words. Eventually, Mrs. Griffith admits to Olive that it was she that had sex with Micah and Olive agrees to take the blame to save Mrs. Griffith’s job and marriage. However, after Olive receives a great deal of negative attention she demands her classmates that she helped to step forward and confess that she did not actually sleep with them. These classmates that Olive had helped represent (12) the negative self centered roles because they do not care that Olive receives negative attention because of what she did to help them. The (13) task difficulty is Olive trying to force all of her classmates to fess up that she did not have sex with them and Mrs. Griffith to come forward which was highly difficult for Olive in the film. Mrs. Griffith refuses to step forward and threatens Olive by saying she will expel her. With that being said, Mrs. Griffith uses her (14) legitimate power because she is the principle of the high school and has a highly respected status. It is self evident that the (15) group interest in the problem is that Olive craves to tell her classmates the