Feminist Theory In Pleasantville

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Pleasantville vs Feminist Theory
1. In this movie the characters started a certain way but by the end they were completely different. Starting with George the father, at the beginning he was a very stereotypical dad from a nuclear family. He came home from work to his wife who came to take care of him, the dinner would be ready and all he would do is relax since he already worked all day. In the feminist theory he played the role of one of the person who does not want any change in the status quo, George did not want his wife to have her own life. To George his wife was an object who cooked, cleaned and came to greet him every day after work. George was one of the last men standing but soon enough he realized that he missed his wife and realized …show more content…

Mary Sue was bold and decided she wanted change and she did this by having sex with many guys, this is what started the change. She started teaching everyone new things and everyone started turning colours. She realized that they were not happy with their normal life, they needed to change the norm and she made it her mission to show people how to live their life freely. She saw the change she made but she was still not changing herself, when change is happening everyone needs to change in order for it to work, Mary sue was still the same and that is why she was still grey. The change she made started when she was forgetting about impressing other people and started doing things for herself instead such as studying. Without Mary Sue no change would have happened, it takes one person to make a …show more content…

Pleasentville is the town where everything is perfect, there is no bad thing that happens, no bad weather, no bad luck etc. The characters are seen a perfect too because nothing ever bad happens between them. The family is that perfect happy family who live in a house with the white picket fence. The nuclear family, how it works is the children are angels whose only focus is school and they would never do anything that is against the rules. The dad is a hardworking man who comes home to a loving wife with the martini ready to go, the dinner already ready is a huge meal the mom has been cooking after she was done with that big breakfast she made. At the end of the day bright and early it is time for bed and this routine repeats day after day, everything is perfect. In the real world it is not like this, families are not always made of the mom, dad, son, and daughter. There are so many types of families, like in the movie they showed us a single parent family where the mom was divorced and had a boyfriend. The children are not always little angels, the daughter was a person who did not care about the rules and we could see this because she was smoking at such a young age. The brother isn’t always a sporty lovable person, in the movie the brother is seen as a geek who does not have many friends. Many women go out to do the work while maybe the husbands stay home. In the real world there is so many different things that it may seem like chaos but it is perfectly normal to

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