“Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.” ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ is based in Manhattan's Upper East Side, during the final years of World War II. ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ is a classic novel and is taught throughout schools and has been for many years. The classics should be continued to be taught in the school curriculum as they continue to connect to modern audience especially through the characters throughout the book. The literary Canon is an authoritative list, as of the works of an author. These classics have been placed in the literary canon as they have been proven to be high quality and have stood the test of time. This is why ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ should still be taught throughout the school curriculum and kept …show more content…
The movie is based on a blonde girl named Elle woods who only cares about what she looks like and Warner Huntington III her boyfriend who wants nothing more to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But unfortunately there is one thing stopping Warner from proposing to Elle is because he thinks that Elle Woods is ‘too blonde’ for him. Elle is determined to get Warner back so she’s gets all the help she can get to get accepted into Harvard. Law school is harder than what Elle wood thought it would be. Elle must go through the fight of her life, for Warner, for herself and for all the blondes who suffer endless humiliations every day. Once Elle wood is accepted into Harvard no one takes her seriously. By this being presented in the film it shows that people underestimate blondes and listen to all the stereotypes that people call female blondes. Elle woods makes many bonding friendships/ relationships throughout her journey to become ‘good enough’ for warner even though he became engaged to another girl Vivian who also attends law school. Vivian makes sure that everyone dislikes and puts Elle down as they all think she isn’t smart enough, but the friends she makes think otherwise. The characters in the movie are so important to have an effect on the audience who are watching this film. The issues shown throughout the movie is the judgment that Elle woods receives this also links back To Holly Golightly in the book ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. Both these characters are underestimated by everyone and are judged as they are blonde and ditsy. This quote that Elle wood states in the movie shows that she comes off ditsy to the audience but at the end of the film she’s really a strong and smart women. ‘And last week I saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal, and I talked her out of buying this truly heinous angora sweater. Whoever said orange was the new pink was seriously disturbed’. This is why
In order to get the title she wants, Muir deceives the family by passing as an innocent young girl when in reality she is a grown woman using them for her benefit, thus her role as the protagonist can be questioned by some. She is a smart and manipulating woman capable of making the men in the family fall down to her will. Her intentions are for the two young brothers in the family, Gerald, who...
“Ireland” is present about half way through the play, towards the end of act one. Up until this point, Elle Woods, student of fashion merchandising and sorority president of Delta-Nu at UCLA, is met by a huge shock. Her boyfriend, Warner Huntington the Third, who she expects to propose to her tells her that he wants to break up with her because she is “not serious enough.” Elle, outraged, decides that love knows no bounds and must follow Warner to his post-graduate program at Harvard Law School. She ruins the rest of her party-style second semester senior year by studying to ace the L-SATs and getting accepted to Harvard as well. Upon arrival, she discovers that Warner has already proposed to a former childhood sweetheart who is also accepted into the same law program as them. Furious, Elle decides that if it is this boring, unfashionable brunette that Warner wants, then she must change her appearance, just to win him back. (“…The Movie or the Book…”)
We live in a society that has sets standards and defines how our lives are supposed be, what we are supposed to look like, and what we are supposed to do with our lives. The film shows us the character Bonnie that by modern standards is viewed as grotesque. As the film strips away her outer appearance you see strong loving person she is on the inside. It’s important
In Legally Blonde (2001), directed by Robert Luketic, Elle Woods, played by Reese Witherspoon, submits an acceptance video and is trying to persuade the Harvard Law committee to accept her into the college law program. Elle is successful in persuading the committee, however there is some resistance after the watching the admissions video. The committee is still hung on whether to admit her. The checker her score on LSAT exam and see her other experiences. Eventually, the committee agrees to accept her in the program. Elle Woods was successful in showing what she can do by building credibility by using other sources to prove she was truthful, intelligent, and
For many years people have argued about the inclusion of The Cather in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger in the high school english curriculum. This is such due to the inappropriate and adult oriented themes within If considered, many times within the novel the main character will face situations in which that the negative and vulgar themes will blossom into something meaningful that the reader can benefit from as a person and as a student. While the vulgarity and adult themes in The Catcher in the Rye are indeed inappropriate for adolescent students, ultimately its underlying themes of self discovery and possessing moral values provides life and ethical lessons that can be applied in the classroom as well as on a daily basis and therefore, the novel should be included in the high school curriculum for students to learn.
The case is made that woman are more noticed by men when they have the big butts and fake hair. The female actors in the movie do not make much attempt to discredit this accusation, furthermore accepting the rhetoric that all males like the fake girls they see in the magazine and that’s the reason all women do this. This is a seamless example of how popular culture has continued to view woman and how woman continue to fall victim to the stereotypes of popular culture. During the exchange of ideas about the female stereotypes there are references made about famous Hollywood elites such as Beyoncé which places more light on the fact that popular culture plays a huge role in female
The dawn of the twentieth century beheld changes in almost every aspect of the day-to-day lives of women, from the domestic domain to the public. By the midpoint of the twentieth century, women 's activities and concerns had been recognized by the society in previously male-dominating world. The end of the nineteenth century saw tremendous growth in the suffrage movement in England and the United States, with women struggling to attain political equality. However, this was not to last however, and by the fifties men had reassumed their more dominant role in society. Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around the time this reversal was occurring in American society. In this play male dominance is clear. Women are represented as
The film reflects the class difference from beginning through the end, especially between Annie and Helen. Annie is a single woman in her late 30s without saving or boyfriend. She had a terrible failure in her bakery shop, which leads her to work as a sale clerk in a jewelry store. When Annie arrived Lillian’s engagement party,
Legally Blonde the Musical, was a fun filled, musical journey, which warmed the hearts of many within the audience. Main character Elle Woods pursues a law degree in attempt to convince her ex-boyfriend Warner that she can be a well-educated, and respectable women. The performers take the audience on a journey following Elle’s college experience at Harvard Law. As Elle faces many hardships she never backs down, showing the audience what a little determination can get you. The musical ends with an happily ever after as Elle does the unexpected. Winning over the respect from her fellow classmates, as well as many more. Showing that all that hard work does pay off in the end, and might present opportunities that you never expected. Elle Woods finds exactly what she has been looking for all along. Which end up being right in front of her the whole time, love.
The movie teaches us to look beyond the cover and into who someone is as a person. We also learn that sometimes contact with people makes us reconsider our judgement towards them, to find out the real person underneath.
Moreover, the woman in the ?eye of the Beholder? not only wanted beauty but she felt the need for acceptance. She was denied this when she was taken to a disability camp. It?s amazing how in the movie, people were separated and treated unequally because of their physical appearances, and as result, they could not share the same society. This is in fact is a metaphor for how discrimination was once in extreme existence in this society. For example, African Americans once had to use: different bathrooms, water fountains, and were even segregated to non-white school. They were even isolated to the worse parts of the cities.
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” (T.S. Eliot) By constructing a comparative discussion, say to what extent you consider this to be useful in understanding The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire.
The first character that I am going to talk about is Belle. Her physical appearance after she ended Her and Ebenezer's engagement was painful. She walked away looking like she had left her heart with Ebenezer and was hoping that he would come after her. I think that the actress did a very good job expressing the depression, pain, and heartbreak that she felt towards her and Ebenezer's break-up. In the movie, she made her character come to life by making the audience feel what she was going through. She expresses this by coastally looking back at Ebenezer and through her facial, and body expressions.
The film is portrayed in the past and present scenario setting. It is based on a young couple’s love and passion for one another, but are unexpectedly separated due to the disapproval of the teen girl parents and the social differences in their life. At the start of the movie, it displays a nursing home style setting with an elderly man named Duke (James Garner), reading to an elderly woman named Mrs. Hamilton (Gena Rowlands), whose memory is inevitably deteriorating. The story he reads to her is a love story about two teenagers named Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling), that met in the 1940’s at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina. The two teens are from different cultural lifestyles,
Elle was feeling good about their encounter and was hopeful that she would be able to win him back. Vivian came up to her and Warner and introduced herself as Warner’s