Maybe she has the most privileged lifestyle or she is the prettiest but there is a dominating factor that shows her as inferior to others. For example, in the movie Mean Girls, there is a pack of girls called “the plastics” and their alpha is Regina George, who recruits a new girl named Cady and makes her over into the newest member of the clique. The other girls that are a part of the clique are all fearing of Regina because she is pretty, rich and fits the ideal white high school female. “She’s the queen B- the other two are just her little workers.” (Mean Girls). Gretchen and Karen are Regina’s faithful minions who will do whatever it takes to stay in her good graces.
This musical tells the story of two girls who later become the notorious Wicked Witch of the West and the good Witch of the North. Elphaba, who is the misunderstood, smart girl, with emerald-green skin, who struggles to prove herself to her family and peers. She sees injustice and must stop it, she also angry because of her perception of herself. She can’t see her own beauty. Later on we see the horrendous outcome of her struggles.
Avalon was a pretty, smart and kind girl so she was a definite threat to the popular girls. The popular girls (also known as ‘The bitches’) verbally bullied Avalon on a daily basis, but it didn’t end there. One would believe that your own home is the most peaceful and safest place, right? Wrong. For Avalon, she was also strongly cyber bullied by a group of people on multiple blog pages that were initially started by an anonymous under the username Dragon Girl.
Miss Saunders also gets made fun of because of the big blotch she has on her face which is her birth mark. Miss Saunders realizes Maleeka is a smart and talented student and encourages Maleeka to work hard. Then, a boy starts liking Maleeka, Caleb. But then he stops talking to her because everyone is making fun of them. Not only does she try to impress everyone with her appearance but she also goes along with Char, and gets in trouble because she has no ability to say no and walk away.
This film not only displays how the world expects teenage girls to act, but also how difficult it is for teenage girls to resist acting this way. Mean Girls is a perfect example of how girls, want to be like the plastics. You have the Queen Bee throughout the movie and every normal girl wishing and wanting to be like her. She’s like the Barbie, everyone wish they could
This can cause instances of mass paranoia and an over reaction of those who have power who are able to influence those beneath them. This is portrayed throughout The Crucible especially when they are scared of any sort of ties with Lucifer. The group of girls which are led under the influence of Abigail Williams, are terribly frightened that ’Abby’ will hurt them if they confess to dancing in the forbidden woods so they accuse many of the community of rash accusations. Unfortunately as the community starts to blindly follow along which was not overly difficult in such a strict puritan community that doesn’t believe in any sort of vain enjoyment. This is how the mass hysteria spread as soon as Abigail released that strong emotions are easily able to manipulate a group of weak minded
In movies such as Bring it On and the like, the cheerleaders are all made out to be overly flirtatious and are continuously shown hooking up with a boy. Since many films and shows portray cheerleaders this way, everyday people have the mindset that cheerleaders are of easy virtue. Girls left and right have a defensive barrier over their boyfriend for fear that I and my fellow cheerleaders might try and steal them. One of the covers to the recent movie, “Fired Up”, features a cheerleader with an abnormally short skirt on flirtatiously leaning on two football players. This enforces the idea of cheer think into the many audiences who viewed this popular
Shianna Franklin Professor Kwist English 1102 10 April 2012 Proposal/Abstract * It’s All Over Now, Pied Piper * Connie’s obsession with vanity and lack of moral upbringing places Connie in grave danger when she attracts the attention of Arnold Friend. * Connie is infatuated with her beautiful flawless looks. Many girls want to be glamorous and noticed, but in Connie’s world she thinks that her beauty is all that she has. With Connie in her on world as a young teenage girl she eventually uses her looks and attracts what is unrevealed after extensive amounts of research a sexual predator and murder. Connie being the young adolescent juvenile that she is and not listening to her friends and family about what she is portraying herself.
The character I like most in 10 Things I Hate About You is definitely Kat Stratford. I can really relate to her. She is a smart, strong-willed feminist with a sharp tongue. She has an independent mind and deep ethical beliefs. She does not care what the people in her school thinks of her as she describes them as idiots who has pathetic, empty, meaningless and consumer-driven lives.
Kat is disappointed with teenage popularity and claims “I’m not hostile, just annoyed” This shows her choice to ignore the upcoming dramas of teenage normalcy and embrace her own individuality. Her attitude shows she has deep anger issues likely caused by her Mother’s abandonment and the fact that her younger sister is now the centre of attention. “I don’t only want to be an object to be adored” With the use of this quote it shows her anger towards today’s society and the only way to belong to something is to be ‘popular’ or to just be an object for everyone else’s entertainment. Kat is outspoken in class and expresses strong feminist views from Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and Sylvia Plath, which help support her theory and aggression towards teenage ‘normalcy.’ But by the end of the movie Kat starts to fall in love with Patrick who is very similar to her and is happy not fitting in with the expectations of teenage popularity, therefore she finds her sense belonging and learns that pushing people away isn’t always the answer. With the interaction of the people around her they had shaped her into the girl she was and the women she