Gender Roles In Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief

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Femininity or the quality of being female, And both texts with many personae depicting that female characters of being more masculine. The novel tends to challenge traditional gender representations, with females being strong, challenging and courageous women. The film, however, shows women to be small, weak and "An Exhibit", this supports the contention as the film 'grease' released August 3rd, 1978, is a traditional film and thus has traditional gender representations.

An example of such traditional representations may be ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ZS9SXH3DfT8 ) here we see Danny going from a less masculine or, more traditionally feminine features such as becoming the love interest and the weakness. This is justified as he quickly changes so his "friends" see him as his masculine self. Such behaviour is commonly found in society and is part of group behaviour and social patterns, grease, however, blows

these patterns out of proportion. When looking at Sandy however we see her show off a less than feminine tantrum, which is important as a man couldn't throw a tantrum as it is beneath him, however, women can. When compared to the novel,Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, the novel presents the protagonist Annabeth, is shown with a strong, intelligent and independent persona. As we see Annabeth alone fighting multiple men in a training/sparring fight. If this movie followed traditional gender stereotypes, this would be seen as tomboyish and unacceptable from a social perspective. If viewed by children or teens of today, they may begin to believe that they are more powerful or equal to men, a common modern day argument. Rick Riordan's novel Provides a great example of modern gender representations. The two texts have excellent contrasts in values and are great for comparing such perspectives.

How does music help effect the audience perspective on gender stereotypes? Or more importantly how are the film techniques employed within such music used to enforce such gender stereotypes. The film represents gender stereotypes with the song 'your the one that I want' telling instructing the audience that for women to be complete,they have to be accompanied by a man. For a female to be truly happy they need a man. This supports traditional criterion, as every woman literally needed a man to survive as men were the only source of income for women in traditional times.
Music is a film technique all in its' own used to push forward one's perspective. Narrative perspective, however, has Rick Riordan and showing us that men are flawed also as we see Percy stumbling through the world he's now discovered. Percy is shown to lose in basic combat often. This is not very masculine and challenges traditional ideas that men must be strong and powerful people. This in comparison Annabeth a power, we see the narrative perspective is female heroines can be greater than or equal to make heroines further challenging traditional stereotypes.

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The plots of both texts are two completely separate topics.

In Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief we see Annabeth, Percy, and Grover as they go on their quest to save the world and Percy's mother with Annabeth being an important part of the team's success with her great intelligence. We find her natural talents to be relied on throughout the book. Percy, however, is heavily flawed and is seen relying, upon other people, a traditionally feminine thing to do. If Percy had been more powerful and pushed to be the leader and the strongest carrying Annabeth instead of the other way around this would support traditional instead of modern opinions. In grease, however, our storyline is based by Sandy hopelessly chasing Danny as she wishes to rely on his love, a traditional feminine representation. As females are meant to rely on the men's love and care to survive. An example of such contrasting ideas of both texts finds Danny showing off his masculinity with his slick hair and leather jacket. However, Percy is dressed casually chasing the

enemy.