Pride and Power Lets be honest, everyone wants to be an alpha. An alpha is the peak for a man, often seen as the highest ‘level’ which we as men can reach. While this may be a stereotype pushed on us by women and other men, it tends to be, in general, one we accept. The alpha is a man which when someone sees and talks to goes damn, that’s a man. A bloke who has it all and everyone knows it. To see what an alpha is, and how to be one, we must look at the original alpha. Now we could look at the modern-day alphas, the sporting legends, the richest powerful men. But rather instead, lets look at the classic aussie alpha male. The alpha male which has been created by a traditional aussie bloke. Roo Webber, he is a character from the play ‘summer …show more content…
Pride is prevalent in Roo, the way which he talks and acts reflects it. ‘Summer of seventeenth doll’ is a play based in Melbourne, the authors home town, which follows the journey of four main characters. These characters represent the new lifestyle which was occurring during the 1900’s Australia, the lifestyle where the end goal wasn’t to settle down and marry. Every harvest season the gangers, Roo and Barney, head up to north Queensland to work in the sun and cut cane. While the ladies, Pearl and Olive, would return to the monotony of everyday life; working in the pub. The only break to this monotony of life was when the harvest season was over. During the lay off season Roo and Barney would return to Melbourne to spend their time. The play opens with Olive trying to describe Roo and Barney to Pearl. Trust me when I say this girl adores Roo, Pearl can’t say enough about how amazing this man are. Which indirectly refers to how highly the author has created this character, he has envisioned a perfect alpha male. He positions us to see Roo through the eyes of Olive, a traditional aussie gal, to see Roo as the man; the
The first half of the play concerns a celebration - twins Girlie Delaney and Dibs Hamilton are celebrating their 80th birthdays, and with the gathering of their families comes the eruption of simmering resentments and anxieties about the future of Dibs and Farley Hamilton's farm, Allandale. The second half starts with a funeral and portrays the shattering of the tenuous links that held the family together.
The representation of mateship in Blackrock challenges the popular ideas held by Australian society towards it. The play’s negative representation of mateship reshapes the reader or viewers attitude towards it. The boundaries of
Jackson displayed these characteristics through his military history, his many brawls, and his outward toughness. Trump has shown hypermasculine traits through his aggressive behavior towards political adversaries, and his chauvinistic remarks about women. The single most glaring example of Trump’s “alpha” male persona was revealed in a set of tapes from 2005 in which Trump bragged about using his celebrity status to sexually assault women.
She taught at universities both in Australia and the United States. Connell highly disagreed that the ideas about what established masculinity are ethically definite. In other words, masculinity is important to whom is referred to. For example, “if women are seen as weak, passive and emotional, then men are supposed to be strong, aggressive, and rational” (Seidman, 221). Additionally, masculinity is based on how people interact with each other in which correlates with their race, class, and sexuality. With this said, Connell said, “to recognize diversity in masculinity: relations of alliance, dominance and subordination… This is a gender politics within masculinity” (Seidman, 223). To point out Connell’s theorizing masculinity, she believes that diversity defines masculinity has its own relationships with authorities. In our text, Seidman gave a brief example of how the roles carry out to the social authority such as President, Senator, CEO, General, media executive, or surgeon. It is stated that while there are many senators, executives, or CEOs who are women, it is definite identify as masculinity because people think those high authorities is only for a male role. In our text, Connell has mentioned that “every society has a dominant or a “hegemonic” type of masculinity” (223). This means that she believes men has the power or control type of their masculinity in the
When someone is thinking of a man, what do they think? Strong? Brave? That’s what most people think; in reality that is a very false image. In “Bros Before Hos: The Guy Code,” Michael Kimmel, talks about what it means to be a man and what it takes to be a man in today’s world. Men are pressured into what they “should” be. If they don’t follow certain unwritten rules, which include: not asking for directions, not giving up, not showing fear, or any signs of emotional weakness, such as tears; they are considered less than a man, a wimp. A real man must be aggressive and brave, he must defend his territory: status, family, possessions. Men blindly follow the Guy Code, they believe in order to fit in, they must comply and be part of the pack.
“The Youngest Doll” by Rosario Ferre is ultimately about an aunt who constantly creates life-sized dolls for her three nieces. It becomes more of an obsession rather than hobby when the author explains that each year the aunt spends more time and effort into making these dolls resemble her nieces as much as possible. Towards the end of the story the youngest niece ends up marrying a doctor. The doctor who she ends up marrying views her more as an object to flaunt rather than respecting her worth. Many of the critics who analyze the story come across the idea that Rosario Ferre is attempting to make it appointed that during this time period there was a mixture of sexism, racism, gender, and class implications. As I agree with all of these statements,
Pride is no less a problem in contemporary society than it was for the ancients. In particular, it is no less a problem for lawyers, who can oftentimes be put in positions of power and be rewarded with large sums of money. Recently, one Houston-based lawyer had a struggle with pride. He lost and with devastating result. This Houston-based lawyer had scored success after success in the courtroom, garnering a large cliental with ever larger pocketbooks. He purchased a large house in a prestigious part of town, owned his own private jet, drove fancy cars, and treated himself to lavish parties and dinners. Perhaps he was something close to a modern day Gatsby.
These concepts throughout text are tied heavily to both the time period and the Australian setting. Rex is very much a creation of his environment, coming from a family where “no stories (are) told” (Jennings 8) and wanting only to “harvest his crops, care for his animals and share it all with a good woman” (42) it is heavily emphasised how much he wants to adhere to an Australian masculinity. This concept has been heavily prevalent throughout Australian society, described as “bushman masculinity” (Murrie 70) it has been how a man “exist(s) among men…the bushman’s freedom…could be celebrated in a spirit of nationalism” (Murrie 70), this kind of masculinity and freedom is what Rex desires to be a part of. The idea of fraternity between the bushman is encompassed in his perspective, when he thinks about leaving Irene he recalls “men who had done that…left their wives and gone north” (43). It seems Rex continuously goes back to what he knows is the way his fellow bushman have lived their lives. Ironically enough it is this fraternity that allows for a break in Rex’s masculine image when he drunkenly dances with his friend who visits the home. They “giggle like girls” and “dance a tango” (53), Jennings is displaying an instance where this fraternity that Rex clings to, enables him to slip out of performing the masculine role. Jennings exemplifies the rareness of this
Thus far, pride has painted itself to be a very negative attribute. In the extreme amounts to which the individuals mentioned above have pride, it is. However, pride is more intriguing than that. It is crucial that one is critical of how they let pride impact themselves in both behavior and thought. In other words, how do you “use” your pride? Is it used as a source of false confidence or a sense of accomplishment?
The play “A dolls house” starts around Christmas Eve at a happy time in the Helmers life. With her husband Torvald recently recieving a new job at the bank the Nora can spend more for the holidays than usual. The play starts with Nora barging into their home with gifts and her husband chastising her about the money that has been spent. Even though this is just the beginning of act one the reader can foreshadow that her husband will call Nora names throughout as he refers to her as a bird, and other demeaning names. As Nora converses with her husband the reader is introduced to two more characters which are, Dr. Rank and Ms. Christine Linde.
A Doll 's house is one of the modern works that Henrik Ibsen wrote. He was called the father of modern drama .He was famous for writing plays that related to real life. A Doll 's House is a three-act play that discusses the marriage in the 19th century. It is a well-made play that used the first act as an exposition. The extract that will be analyzed in the following paragraphs is a dialogue between Nora and the nurse that takes care of her children. This extract shows how she was afraid not only of Krogstad blackmail, but also of Torvald 's point of view about those who committed any mistake. Torvald says that the mothers who tell lies should not bring up children as they are not honest . Nora is also lying to her family and to Torvald. So she is afraid because she thinks she maybe 'poisoning ' her own children. The analysis of this extract will be about of Nora 's character, the theme, and the language in A Doll 's House.
“A Doll’s House” gives the reader a firsthand view at how gender roles affected the characters actions and interactions throughout the play. The play helps to portray the different struggles women faced during the 19th century with gender roles, and how the roles affected their relationships with men as well as society. It also helps to show the luxury of being a male during this time and how their higher status socially over women affected their relationships with woman and others during this time period.
The main theme expressed in the play is change and the characters' inability to cope with this. Like many working-class people from this time the characters in the play are fairly uneducated and because of this, they do not have an understanding of the growing old process, they cling onto what they know best, which is youth and this brings about their downfall. Olive is the classic dreamer. She is thirty-nine but still continues to live as though she's a teenager. She has extremely strong ideals, which she refuses to let go of. She wants excitement; she wants "five months of heaven every year." She doesn't want the monotony and responsibility of married life. Roo and Barney, who once were fit young men, come down from the lay-off this year, dragging their ever-increasing age with them. Roo is not as fit and healthy as he used to be - he has a bad back - his pride also holds him back from realizing that he is getting older and that life is changing for him. Time is catching up with Barney as well and he is no longer the epitome of male prowess that he believed he once was. Underneath the smiling, joking façade he really is a fairly pathetic man who doesn't truly understand what is happ...
In its historical context A Doll’s House was a radical play which forced its audience to question the gender roles which are constructed by society and make them think about how their own lives are a performance for Victorian society.
sure the children don’t see it till it’s decorated this evening”(Ibsen 892). There is also a