Select any exhibit and analyze it with 400+ words. Use the yellow "Critical Lenses 101" handout.
“EXHIBIT” = novel, play, song, sculpture, film, poem, concert, painting, myth, sketch, poster, artwork, photograph, t-shirt, television show, biography, speech, advertisement, event, place/building (school, office), game, brochure, practice, rehearsal, ritual, haircut/style, website, routine, suit coat...
Two sample exhibits: Sarah Palin & "Married With Children" a popular sitcom
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For my exhibit I chose the TV show King of the Hill. If we look at this exhibit through a feminist lens we see not many women are really involved or play a real important role. Luanne the main family’s niece is a big breasted airheaded blonde. She can hardly tie her shoes and is very easily confused. Women should be offended by this stereotypical woman. Another women in King of the Hill is Peggy one of the main characters. Although she is a main character she isn’t represented really as a woman but more often as a man. She has big feet for a woman that the show often makes fun of and a poor knowledge of Spanish which she is a substitute teacher for. Peggy is regularly put down by Hank who often does believe or trust in her ability. Whenever Peggy does screw up however she runs to Hank who is willing to help her. Through a Freudian Lens we can see Hank as the Superego, Boomhower and Dale as the ID, and Bill as the ego. Dale and Boomhower are always causing trouble or not thinking ideas through and drag Bill into it. Hank on the other hand always is thinking of a plan and calling the other idiots. Hank always has to solve the problems that the others seem to create. Bill is dependent on Hank a lot and doesn’t trust himself; he needs the others to tell him what to do. Through a Marxist lens we can see the different levels. Hank is a upper middle class hard worker who has full faith in the government and thinks that if there is a problem there is a form to be filled out that can solve it. Dale on the other had is constantly talking about conspiracy theories and how the government is out to get him. Mr. Strickland; the owner of the propane store Hank works at; is suppose to be a typical fat cat capitalist. He makes a lot of money but leaves always leaves Hank to do all the work while he goes off to strip clubs and is constantly blowing money in some way. In the relationship between the four guys Hank is there leader. He is the one who they trust to make the right decisions and fix their problems no matter what. Hank would be classified as white collar; he even is always wearing a white shirt albeit with blue jeans; he is a manager and has lots of power. Dale is a lower class worker. He is an exterminator and wears a jumpsuit. Hank is always try to move up at Strickland propane and is always going above and beyond his work however he never seems to get the promotion that he deserves.
My exhibit i choose is the play Love, Sex, and the IRS. this play can easily be put in a feminist lense and be seen as an amazing defeat and stab at men. in the play one of the lead male characters Leslie is cheating with his roommate, Jon,'s fiance, Kate. what Leslie doesn't know is that Jon has been filing Leslie as his wife on his taxes... Leslie is a MAN!! but with a name Leslie he could pass them off as a married couple. But when the IRS calls and wants to talk to them they get scared and Leslie is forced to dress up like a woman and play the part of Jon's lovely little wife! Feminist would love this play because Leslie is put through the whole ordeal of being a woman and dealing with womanly things. and in the end Leslie realizes just how difficult it is to be a woman. but feminists might also hate it due to the fact that the main female character is a slut who is cheating on her fiance with his roommate. They also might hate the fact that when Jon's mother comes to visit she gets drunk as a skunk so she doesn't have to deal with the fact that her son is marrying(she came because she learned of his engagement and gets there to be told he is marrying Leslie, she is old fashioned so she thinks it is wrong that they have been living together all this time without being in wedlock) Leslie who she thinks is extremely unattractive and the worst choice for her little boy. this play can also be looked at in the Marxist lense. Jon says he and Leslie are married on their taxes so that they can save money. This shows how poor these guys are or how at least how they deal with money. You could also look at the fact that this IRS agent thinks, after a few drink, he is part of the family and how he learns way too much but everything he learns is taken in the wrong manner due the fact that he thinks Leslie and Jon are married.
The show that I’m doing for my exhibit is One Tree Hill. I like One Tree Hill because there is always something interesting that makes you want to see the next episode really bad. At the end of the episode, it leaves you hanging with what is going to happen next?! This helps you draw your own conclusions. Using Marxist lens, one would wish that they could live in this small town because they live in huge houses and they rarely ever show parents. The kids aren’t ruled by parents and they can go on trips far away whenever they want. They rarely ever show the kids getting their education nor do they show them having/working at a job where they can afford all these trips and places they go to. You can clearly see that they drink underage and throw these huge parties that don’t get busted. Why would they want to promote this kind of behavior? It makes normal kids jealous. Kids would like this show because it shows US ruling rather than parents. Kids have the power and are show as “high class,” popular teens. Through a feminist lens, we see different personalities in the women. Peyton is very needy over Lucas who will do anything for him besides move on even when Lucas almost gets married. Brooke is shown as slutty. We see her breasts hang on a lot and we see her sleep around with tons of men but then again her parents haven’t ever been in her life. Haley is the “responsible” one because she gets married at such a young age but she almost gets divorced multiple times with her husband. These women roles are somewhat natural because statistics have said that teens whose dad has left their family become needier with men; and with a lot of movies they always have the girl needy for a guy which can be true in the real world. Freudian lens is shown with mostly the men in this show. For instance, Nathan was a jerk in the beginning because that’s how his friends he hung around with were and he needs to be “top dog” because his friends follow him. He has a high ego, thinking everything is about him and that it’s his way or no way. The basketball court also shows who’s the better man because it’s involved throughout the whole show and shows who’s boss and who dominates.
The exhibit i chose is my job. I work at the skatepark in Brandon mostly everyday of the week. I really enjoy my job because i love skateboarding. That is what i would probably be doing anyway if i was not working at my other job at Dairy Queen. The skatepark system is good to me and i am good to the system. The system works for me because i love skating and it doesnt bother me one bit to sit outside all day in the sun. But for someone else they might not like the job as much as i enjoy it just because that particular system is not good to them. Some people enjoy sitting in a office cubical and working on a computer. Or even teaching at a school with classes all day. None of these appeal to me in anyway. Others would enjoy the job at Dairy Queen because it appeals to them. Through a marxist lense im the chief of staff at the park. I have all the athourity and responsibilities of the park while im working. I can call all of the shots and I have control of what i can and cant do. I can eat, sleep, skate, not skate, work on my summer tan, or even take a break from work whenever i want. Since I am the only one working there too there is no one around to tell me what to do. My boss is never there telling me what to do. And i get payed for all of this because they need a sorce of leadership to keep order and control of the skatepark community. It is a all over pretty good job for me and i would work there the rest of my life if it were a reality. Maybe some day i would be able to become pro and working at the skatepark gives me all the time i need to practice and get better at what i really enjoy in life.
I’ve chosen car selection as my exhibit to analyze. For the most part, you can tell what type of person an individual is just by what car they drive. Cars can even help determine social class ranks and popularity in school or the workplace. I have a first-hand encounter with this myself. I used to drive a dinky little Honda Accord, but when it was getting up in mileage and repairs I decided it was time to switch. I ended up buying my grandpa’s old farm truck. Before I had my truck, I just kind of blended in with the crowd, just another kid driving another car to school. Now that I have a truck, however, people recognize me coming into the parking lot because they recognize my truck. Everyone makes assumptions as to who is driving what type of vehicle. A few obvious examples are even names that we have given to some vehicles, like “soccer mom van” or “hulio truck.” We judge people on what car they drive before we even get to know them. Everyone loves trucks. In the school system, trucks mean power and social status. If you drive a truck, you are somehow automatically “cooler” then you were before. The people that drive the rinky dinky rust-buckets to school always get made fun of because they don’t have a “cool” car, when the fact of the matter is that they probably can’t AFFORD a cool car. So they accept their ridicule and move on with their lives, day after day, until they get their opportunity to strike back at the social ladder and get a car that’s “better” than everyone else’s. Social classes depending on car selection don’t really mix in schools. You don’t see the jocks with their cool Escalades or their fancy racing cars mixing with the ordinary rust-bucket driving kids. This system is oppressive to its members in a sense, but nowhere near parallel to any other system we have. The kids will get made fun of for driving bad cars, but the oppressors won’t go to extreme lengths like other cultures and execute them or banish them for it. Because of this fear of ridicule, the kids are most likely content where they are in their social class, and they don’t try to better themselves for fear of even more ridicule. Every system has its flaws, and social class dependencies based on car selection is just one of our many problems.
The book, "Going Bovine," can be looked at through many of the lenses mentioned in the "Critical Lenses 101" handout. First of all, from a feminist lense, one could say that Cameron, the story's main character, has a goal in life of simply just finding love, or someone to love him or care about him (from a possible chickflick perspective). His main determination, through this lense, is not really to over come his mad cow disease, but instead to just find love before he dies. Dulsie, the angel that Cameron hallucinates and dreams up, ends up being the one that Cameron starts to love in the story, so in a way, once he finds her, he is happy. Towards the end of the book, Cameron seems to only need her. His mind tends to come back to just focusing on her and wanting to see her again. Dulsie, while being the book's main female character, is also the one girl that seems to be in command. Cameron looks to Dulsie for guidance and instruction. She is the one with all the information. So, from this perspective, the women have control in the book.
From a Marxist lense, the ones with higher authority and considered a higher class would be those who are taller in this book at first. At the beginning of the book, if you are short, you are looked down upon. For instance, a dwarf, name Gonzo is made fun of for his size in being very small. Also, Balder, a live yard gnome that Cameron creates in his mind, also is looked down upon as a lower class at first. Leading towards the end of the book though, size doesn't matter. Gonzo and Balder become Cameron's best friends and even help protect him against the dark and firey demon things that Cameron also makes up in his mind. The 'superstructure' is demolished in the end and everyone seems equal.
Lastly, through the Freudian lense, there are many dreams that Cameron tries to achieve. For one, the dream to live is obviously on Cameron's mind throughout the story, because everyone seems to have a fear of death. For another dream, Cameron wishes to be normal, or in other terms, like everybody else. He thinks that his family is abnormal at the beginning of the story and wishes that he had a normal family. Once he finds out that he has mad cow disease, we wishes that he was like other kids and was a normal healthy kid. He wants to have enough time to live to experience the events that every teenager would get to go through, but him. He envys other kids in that they get to experience a lot of things that he will never be able to experience now that he is dying. This might be considered the dream of conforming.
I am going to analyze the show “The Nanny”. In this show the main character is a woman, Fran, who wears very revealing clothing and acts like a ditz. She was hired as the nanny because of how available she was and by her appearance. Using a Marxist lens you could say that she was after the money because she got hired by a movie producer who is a billionaire. They end up getting married and she climbed the social ladder. It took many years for them to get married but eventually they fell in love. There are many fights and rough patches a long the way. If you use a feminist lens you would be very upset by the way that she is portrayed because she is not well respected and always needs to rely on a man. She also is put in very skimpy clothing and prances around the house in these clothes, even around the children. She influences the young children. Maggie and Gracie (the girls) look up to Fran and begin dressing like her and wanting to find a rich man to marry, when they are only around the ages of 13. Brighton (the boy) starts looking at every woman as if she is a possession or a piece of property to be owned. He starts flaunting his father’s money and trying to impress the girls when he is still in middle school. This sitcom doesn’t make the women seem important because all of the women are relying on men and are depressed and engorging in chocolates when they are not ‘dating’ a man. The children are also not considered very important because they are not considered when most decisions are mad. Maxwell, the movie producer, has complete control over everyone in this house including Fran, the children, his partner CC and his butler Niles. Throughout the entire series the characters are competing against each other for Maxwell’s attention and money. In the series there are man sex references as well. The women are always trying to have sex with Maxwell. There are also many scenes of Maxwell pushing papers and things off of his work desk to make out the Fran. Also, there are scenes of people in bed or subtle hints as to a man being large or good in bed. The women in “The Nanny” are also always wearing make up and always have their hair done perfectly. They do not allow anyone to see them when they are not fully ‘dolled’ up and perfected. This shows that the women are insecure and not happy with themselves. Fran’s mother is always pushing for Fran to get married because she wants grandchildren. The pushing for marriage makes Fran obsessed with it and makes her not see all the important things in her life. Her mother is always trying to make her not gain weight, or look perfect, or get married or have children. Her mother does not seem happy with who Fran is or how her life has worked out. It’s not a very healthy relationship.
Sara Barnes
Pd. 6
For my exhibit, I am going to analyze the circus. I went to the circus last Thursday and thought that it was a unique experience, but way different than how I remembered it from when I was a child.
I will first start with the feminist lens, it is very obvious that the circus uses women in a way different way than they use men. All of the women in the circus were wearing little to no clothing, and if you were close enough you could see that they were also full of make-up. The women also did very odd things such as climb up and do tricks on a bar or hold themselves on a drape, or even hang from a moving motorcycle. There was also a woman that was extremely flexible and contorted her body in many odd ways. I think that the circus objectifies women. This is sort of scary because many of the viewers of circuses are children who are learning, and this is what we are showing them. Sure, it is cool that they have different talents that many of us do not have, but I think that there should be men that are recruited for these positions also. When I did see men in the circus they were wild beast tamers, like the lion master, he was made as manly and as crazy as possible by running around without a shirt to crazy rock music, and having wild hair. He was yelling and all of this was to help make him manlier. The other men were the elephant trainers, the motorcycle drivers, the jugglers, and the dog people. These can all be considered “man” jobs and the women stuck with the hula-hoops, the dancing, and the odd talents like mentioned above. I think that the circus needs to work more on intermixing the two to help our youth understand that both are okay.
While waiting for the circus to begin, I noticed some social tensions between the viewers there. Every time I go to some event at the arena I notice that there is a wide variety of social classes that are there. In some ways this is awkward because it is way different than what I am used to. There are very wealthy people all the way down to noticeably poor people. I am not complaining that there were both extremes there but it makes for a tense wait. While waiting for the concessions stand, there was a poorer couple in front of us and a noticeably rich couple in front of them, the child of the poorer couple was just staring in awe at the people in front of them and kept touching the lady’s dress that had beads and bright colors on it, the richer couple was getting annoyed of this and the poorer couple didn’t care because they didn’t think that it was a big deal. This made it very tense and I know that there were probably more examples of this throughout the circus. The Marxist lens could be used not only looking at the people attending the circus but the people in the circus too. The circus tries to make the women and men look very wealthy with very extravagant dresses and beads, the men were also in suits and nice clothing. I think the only time that I saw a person not look nice was the lion tamer.
The circus is a work of art in itself, and should be analyzed thoroughly.
I selected the movie “Cinderella” to analyze. If you look at this movie with a Marxist lens you will see that Cinderella is a low class citizen, her stepmother and stepsisters are middle class, and the prince, king, and queen are high class. She sleeps in a cold place with mice and cobwebs while the rest of her family sleeps in warm, beautiful rooms. The social classes interact with each other by using the lower class as maids/slaves and treating them poorly. Because the stepmother and stepsisters are portrayed as middle class they have more freedom and can do whatever they please, unlike Cinderella who must serve and clean constantly. In this movie Cinderella believes she must climb the “social ladder” to get wealth or fame and the only way to do that is to have nice clothes and be pretty. Her Fairy Godmother helps her by giving her that for a short time so she realizes that money and power isn’t everything. It is a good lesson for children also. When she is in rags and the Prince sees her he pays her no attention. When she is in a beautiful gown, looking gorgeous, he notices her from across the room and does anything he can to find her.
If you look at this movie with a Feminist lens you will see that men treat women as objects based on their sexual appearance. If they are pretty, like Cinderella was at the ball, they are treated with respect and kindness because they are desired. If they are unattractive or poor, like Cinderella was in her everyday life, they are treated with disrespect and somewhat ignored because they are not desired. Another example is that the Prince doesn’t even want to go to the stepsisters home because they are unattractive. However, he wants to find the beautiful girl he met at the ball. Both of these lenses mix together to get the statement of “beauty = power” and “power = money.” Even though this is an animated Disney movie in today’s world it is true. When you look at the school for instance the popular kids are with the pretty/handsome popular kids and the unpopular kids tend to stick with the people they fit in with.
It seems like women try to fit in just so they can find a man. This movie shows that the Fairy Godmother showed Cinderella that she had to be the prettiest girl at the ball to get the guy or at least his attention. It is unfortunate that we still live by that rule. Professional sports players do not date nerdy scientists; they date the models, actresses, and Playboy bunnies. Cinderella shows that women feel they need beauty to get anywhere in life (for power/money) and without beauty their life will be poor and dull.
I am gong to do 1984 and I am going to use the Marxist lens. Threw this lens we see how money and class effect the book and the people in the book. 1984 is all about class and money the poor people the Proletariats are what Winston is hopeful for not the party or the Bourgeoisie they are all ready brain washed and want everything to stay the same. The Proletariats are oppressed by the party members they are dumb and live life threw mostly there instincts and what the party members tell them to do. The base of the party is Big Brother who I do not think is really real in anyway shape or form he is just the image of the party. In 1984 the characters are given no freedom. They are under or what it seems constant watching. The different social class do not interact with each other the party members thing so low of the proles that they don’t even want to talk to them. As you go threw the book Winston becomes better and then he goes to Room 101 and becomes for the party and by doing so he now is in a higher paying job and doing less work then he used to well still getting paid more then his old job. He becomes good for the system and then the system becomes good for him.
I am also going to use the feminist lens on 1984. In the book there are many roles played by both men and women but anything but natural roles. Everyone works and I guess with the Parsons the natural roll is taking place because the mother stays home and watches the kids well the dad is at work working and doing what he can do for the party. The person charge of the single gender does is not the person but the party choose what they do and how they do it. I think Winston is in the book is more of the caring type in the book where as Julia plays more of the mans roll in the book. She gets food and finds where to meet up and finds everything for when they do meet up. She is bringing the food and such to when they meet up and doesn’t really care for stuff as Winston does. In 1984 people are treated so what of the same besides that the proles and the party people do not mix. The party is trying to get rid of sex in every meaning of the word. They want people to just be someone who works and doesn’t think that oh that person is attractive to me they just want them to be blank and emotionless.
For my exhibit I am going to analyze a painting. This painting was done by my sister, Alexandra Hurney. The painting does not have a name but it is sort of a darker colored painting. It has many uses of purples, greens, blues, blacks, and grays. Not much bright colors in it and the picture almost as if it was blurry. Like when you are driving down the road and you take a quick snap shot of something and it always comes out blurred. A viewer can tell even thought it looks blurred that there is some sort of trees on a hillside maybe with a late evening gloomy day sky.
With a Marxist critical lens a viewer could possible say it is representing a lower working class where they always feel they are down in the dumps and have a gloomed look at everything. Also with a Marxist lens you could get money for this painting and be in the upper working class if you sold the painting.
With a Feminist Critical Lens you could say since it was painted by a female that gender does matter in the exhibit and that its feminist because it was created in the eye of a female. I think if a male was to paint this painting it would have been created with a few more shades of darker colors. I'm not limiting the color range for males and females I am just simply stating my feelings on how a man would portray this painting if he were to create it.
Using a Freudian Psychoanalytic critical lens you could say that during consciousness/ego the artist could and realized what she was doing.... making a painting. But in preconsciousness her superego was telling her to painting her feelings. Maybe she was having a hard day and her unconscious/Id told her to paint a gloomy scene where the image was blurred and to use darker colors to construct her emotions on a canvas.
Or if you are a viewer who does not have to analyze everything with all three of these critical lenses you could just appreciate the work of art as it is. You can look close and see all the detailed brush strokes and appreciate the talent that went into making such a great piece of art work. Maybe if you like it so much you will buy it and appreciate it every day in your home and wonder how one person can have so much talent that they created something so wonderful.
I am very proud of my sister and her great art ability and wish I could show you on here a picture of the art work I see everyday hanging in my house.
The exhibit I chose to analyze was the movie The Blindside. This movie is about a poor black boy that is taken in by a rich, Southern, white family. Using a Marxist lens, we see that this movie deals a lot with the issue of money. When Leigh Anne, the mother, goes to have lunch with some of her girlfriends, after she and her family took Michael in, her friends ask her if he is another one of her charity cases. You could tell that her friends have money and that they thought the only reason she took in Michael was to make herself look good. Leigh Anne’s friends also joke about taking out their checkbooks to donate money to him. When they joked like this it just shows that they thought they were better then Michael because they have money and are higher in the social class. In the end we see that even though Michael grew up poor he still did something with his life and accomplished great things. Using a Marxist lens we also learn that money is not the most important thing in life, having a family to support you will always make you happier. Without the issue of wealth and social class in this movie, we would not have had a movie. This movie revolves are money and where you rank in society.
Using a Feminist Lens we can see that Leigh Anne is not the average house wife. While she is that mom who drops her kids off at school and goes to all their sporting events, she also is a hard working woman who works outside the home and does not depend on her husband to bring home all the money. While she does fit some of the gender expectations she also has some qualities about her that would be considered more manly. She knows what she is talking about when it comes to football. Without her pushing Michael and giving him examples of how the football team is like his family, Michael might not have made it to where he is now. Using a Feminist Lens we also see how Leigh Anne is objectified because of her body. When she goes to Michael’s home we can see that all the boys sitting on the steps are staring at her. This is also true when she walks onto the football field to talk to Michael, as she is walking back to the bleachers we see that the coach is checking her out as she walks. In this movie, she is usually dressed in heels and a skirt, would we have gotten the same feeling if she had been wearing jeans most of the time. The answer is probably not.
This is a great movie that can be analyzed carefully using many of the Critical Lens.
For my exhibit I chose the TV series, "Desperate Housewives". It is about four housewives and their lives on Wisteria lane. The main characters names are Lennet, Gabby, Susan, and Bri. Their lives are full of drama. One day it will be drama about Bri's daughter getting pregnant, and everyone is in shock because Bri is such an old fashion lady. Some days it will be Lennet when she tries to balance a family of five and her hectic work schedule. Through a feminist lens this show is degrading to women, yet empowers a woman at the same time. This show shows how vulnerable women can be. Susan is the character that shows the most vulnerability. She is a ditzy brunette who constantly needs a man in her life or she feels worthless. She dates a guy named Mike for the longest time. Before he is going to propose to her, a car hits him. He stays in a coma from the accident for six months. Susan stays with him but eventually moves on to a new guy. Mike then wakes up and doesn’t remember anything including Susan. Eventually then end up getting married a couple years later. Bri is the super woman of Desperate Housewives. Her house is perfect, her hair is perfect, and everyone thinks her life is perfect. What people do not realize that all though her house is perfect and her hair is perfect, her life is not perfect. Her husband has a heart attack while he is cheating on Bri with another housewife on their block. Her husband then is in “the dog house”. He has to take pills to help keep his heart strong. When Bri goes to the drugstore the pharmacist falls in love with her and starts poisoning her husband. Eventually her husband dies. Bri thinks that he just dies of natural causes and starts dating the pharmacist. Eventually she finds out and the pharmacist kills himself. Later in life Bri meets her second husband who turns out to have killed his mistress. After he goes to jail for a couple years he comes back and her life seems normal. Just when she thinks life is good her teenage daughter gets pregnant. Through all her rough times she stays relatively composed, coming across as a super woman. This TV series is based on middle class America and people living “the American Dream”. The series is based on drama making the general viewing population out to be female.
Through a marxist lens you can tell which of the housewives are rich and which ones are of normal income. Gabby is a wealthy model. She has many fine clothes and always looks her best. Bri is also wealthy. She has her own cook book and is very successful at what she does. Susan is of average income. She doesn't appear to have any job however. Lennet is the average American she goes from a corporate job to running a pizzria with her husband. By watching desperate housewives you can learn some important life lessons.
The exhibit I am going to analyze is That 70’s Show. Looking at the exhibit through the Marxist lens we see that most of the characters in the show are associated with the middle class; however there are a few exceptions. Jackie is most likely considered to be a higher-class citizen. Her parents are wealthy and she is always bragging about expensive materials things. Also she has the mentality that she is better than everyone else and that no one and nothing is good enough to suit her high-maintenance needs. On the contrary we have the character Fez who is a poor foreign boy. Fez could be compared to a leech; he is constantly mooching off of the other characters. He also always seems to be the subject of every joke as he struggles to adapt to the American lifestyle. Similar to Fez we have Hyde; who is also on the low end of the social class scale. Hyde did not really have any parental figures as a child and was left to fend for his own in life. All of this responsibility affected Hyde’s attitude immensely. Hyde would be considered the rebel of the group. Since the system was not good to him as a child he is not good to the system as an adult. The Foremans and the Pinsciottis are the two main families on the show. Both families are basically the definition of an all American middle class family. The husbands both work at mediocre jobs that they enjoy and bring home the money. Kitty Foreman is a nurse while Midge Pinsciotti is a stay at home mother. Through the Feminist lens we see that the show views not only a stay at home mother role acceptable, but also working mothers acceptable as well. Kitty the working mother however portrays more motherly nurturing skills than the stay at home mother Midge does. Midge is stereotyped as a dumb blonde; she is constantly saying absurdly stupid things and dresses quite scandalously. Another stereotype throughout the show is associated with Jackie. Jackie is depicted as an emotional roller coaster of sassy remarks and annoying boy problems; what most would view as the typical teenage girl. On the contrary however we have Donna. Donna is one of the guys she is frequently horsing around with the boys and making fun of the prissy Jackie. Through the Freudian lens we see that almost every character in the show gives into their ids. The show is filled with drugs, alcohol, and sex hence the name That 70’s Show. The characters are not per se hippies but they do engage in some activities that a hippy might. For example, in almost every episode it is implied that the kids get high around a circular table in Foreman’s basement. In addition there are numerous episodes where there is alcohol present or one of the characters is drunk or at some sort of party. Furthermore, all of the teen characters, except for Fez, are not virgins.
Chelsea Mattson pd. 7
For my exhibit I chose a Taylor Swift poster of mine to analyze. I am a bit of a Taylor fanatic so that is why I selected a poster of her over that of another music artist. Through a Marxist lens she dominates, or takes the power over my music taste, and most other song artists. I believe she is an excellent singer. She in general is extremely powerful since she is only 19 years old and has already won many awards for her songs and performances, a Marxist would definitely defy her as a prominent, powerful woman! Through a Feminist lens this poster is very much the "ideal teenage dream girl" image. It is from her music video for her song 'Love Story' where she meets the perfect prince, Romeo, and of course since she is Juliet she wins his heart(making any girl think they can just put on a white dress and sing a boy a song and win his heart). Taylor is posed on a huge fancy detailed outside patio, or possibly a doorway, it appears to be the secret passage to a romantic getaway even. The outside edges of the picture are darkened so her signature (in white) on the bottom stands out like a sore thumb to the viewer. The white also matches her beautiful wedding dress/ball gown which is referenced in the song. She is wearing make up and has her hair done fancy. All of these are typical female stereotypes (dresses, makeup, and fancy hair). She has a full moon lit behind her and is located at the center of the poster, drawing all the attention to her, and somewhat to her bust (through a Freudian lens). She is wearing a corset and has a stick thin body figure, she almost looks small compared to her gown, or to the song in general since it claims she needs a guy to make her happy. I would suggest listening to this song since it goes against every independent quality a woman could/should have even though it has a great melody. This poster attracted me and other teenage girls because it exhibits the dream lifestyle any girl would want, envy and look up to. Taylor Swift has become way more than a singer/songwriter, she is a music phenomenon! This is why posters like these sell like crazy; she has power, beauty, and a voice; these are qualities that appeal to a woman of any age.
Ashley Christensen
pd. 5
The exhibit I chose to analyze was the Empire Mall. I chose this exhibit because I go there a lot and I thought of many ways I could use the critical lens. The first lens I thought went worked well with this exhibit was the Marxist lens. The Marxist lens is about how money matters or functions in this exhibit. Money is a major factor when you go to the mall. From the stores to the people that shop in the stores money is a huge factor. In order for stores to stay open they have to make enough money/profit off of what they are selling. Stores also have to earn money to spend money. If they are not making money they won’t be able to buy new products. A store also has to make their story look nice and attractive to customers so that they will want to come there, which means that the store will have to factor in cost for creatively displaying their merchandise. When it comes to the customers being able to spend money they will most likely only enter the stores that are in there price range. For example if you don’t have a lot of money you probably won’t enter Abercrombie and Fitch or the Coach store for purses. If customers want reasonably prices items they will probably go to Old Navy or JcPennies.
The Feminist lens is another lens that works well for the Empire Mall. How does gender matter? Well at the mall there are certain stores that only men would go in or women would go in. Some stores such as Aerie target women or than men. Aerie is a store that sells women’s undergarments and pajamas. Men mostly likely won’t go in there unless they need to buy something for their girlfriend. Women are sometimes labeled as “shopaholics” because we tend to shop a lot but men tend to watch a lot of sports or play a lot of video games so they should probably have a classification too. Sports/Athletic stores target men more because men are seen to be more athletic which is not always true. Overall the Empire Mall fits both male and female gender, because it has a wide variety of stores. Although, when you go to the mall you see mostly women there are some men that go shopping with their girlfriend or wife.
For this blog, I am going to analyze the video game Gears of War. In this game, women don’t really do too much for the army. Throughout the game, the men, however, are given important mission information by a woman. A feminist critic would love to see that the most crucial information is being controlled by a woman. Also, the leader of the locust, the enemy against the cog, is lead by a female princess. Looking at this game through a feminist lens makes you wonder how all these brute guys can take orders from a female and feel intimidated by the opposite sex. Any locust soldier could pummel the locust queen if they so desired, but her dominating presence is what keeps these monsters at bay. In the second game, one of the cog’s men, Dom, has lost his wife to the locust horde. After finding out that this has happened, he is willing to ditch the mission until he knows that his wife is safe and out of the locust stronghold. This could look bad for women since it shows that they just get in the way in times like this but it also shows that without them around, these men might not have anything to fight for. Looking at this game through a Marxist lens, one would have to look at the background of all these cog soldiers. Most, if not all, have lost someone important to them due to the locust and are out for revenge against the locust horde. The main character, Marcus Fenix, had to be broken out of jail so he can save the human race from utter demolition. A Marxist critic would say that in order to be in the cog army, one would have to be ripped and need the best military skills available; anything short would not be good enough for humanity as you would die as soon as the fighting started. The buildings and area around them is all falling apart and looks as if the world will end along with the human race. This could symbolize that the cog army isn’t only fighting for humanity, but for the world’s life as well. The gears of war logo is a skull’s head in the middle of a bloody red cog. This could symbolize that if you are not with the cog army till death, you will not make it through emergence day, or the day when the locust come up through the ground the reek havoc on human civilization. The locust logo is a rusty cross with pointy edges, symbolizing that if you are not for the locust, your health will turn to rust and you will soon die. It is totally opposite of the cross which usually means health which makes it very ironic.
Samantha Hagen
I chose to use the Sioux Empire Mall as my Exhibit. The mall is filled with so many different types of people. One day My friend and I were really bored and sat in the food court and just people watched. Going to the mall appeals to me in many ways it’s fun to do when you’re bored. You can buy almost many things there you can also meet up with friends, or just waste time before you need to be somewhere. If I were to analyze the mall in a feminist lenses it would be females can go to the mall wearing whatever they want, really the mall is considered a “girls” thing. Girls and go to the mall and not be dependent on a guy. Guys go to the mall to shop but some guys go there specifically to pick up girls. A lot of times when a girl is really into shopping that’s nothing out of the ordinary but when a guy is some automatically say he is gay. In Marxist lenses you would ask how social classes interact with each other at the mall. Well they don’t usually they mind their own business and just go on with their own activities. I do however notices when a big group of gothic people walk by, or think some negative things when girls in really slutty clothing walk by but I don’t say anything to them. Another question may be is the system oppressive to its members? And I think the mall works well for everyone who doesn’t ruin it. The people who vandalize or decide to steal and get banned then the system is no longer working in their favor. Are lower working classes exploited? The answer to that is yes and no, anyone can go to the mall and hang out without buying anything I do it a lot, but the lower class that don’t have much money wouldn’t be able to purchase a lot of merchandise. I don’t think the mall has a lot to do with the Freudian lenses, maybe when it comes to envying certain people you see walk by but that’s about it. And I guess the people working in the kiosks are very good at making up lies to get you to buy things such as saying how much they love your purse so you feel special so you buy a necklace you know you don’t need.
Laryssa Osheim Pd.3
For my exhibit, I'm going to analyze That 70's Show. This is one of my favorite shows, and can be analyzed through all 3 lenses. First off you can see this show through a feminist lens. Kitty, Eric's mom, is the typical 70's mom. She cooks, cleans, and works some times. Women back then usually did stay home and take care of the family. She does, however, have a job as a nurse; which is also a typical female job. You don't usually see men in that profession back in the 70's. Now days, we have in some ways broken the gender barrier and have many male nurses now. She is not the "head" of the household, that spot belongs to Red, the dad. He is a powerhouse, tough guy. Kitty looks weak and helpless compared to him, some would say that is putting housewives down! Another thing to look at in the feminist lens is Jackie. She is also a typical pretty cheerleader, airhead, brat, etc. A lot of girls are like that, but Jackie is over the top portrayed as a bratty teenager. All of the guys are pretty calm and laid back, it makes them look more enjoyable to be around. Donna is the opposite. She has her own mind, and doesn't let men walk all over her, she's smart and doesn't fight for attention from men. Feminists would love Donna, she's everything we want a strong woman to be. However, she is nothing like her mom, Midge. Midge is a slutty, airheaded woman. They portray her as someone who NEEDS a man to function, without one she'd be lost!
Now, I'll show the show through a marxist lens. Majority of the characters are middle class, but there are a few exceptions. Hyde, is one of the main characters that starts out as just a friend, but in time moves in with Eric and his family, because his mom left him. He's a stereotypical "poor" kid without parents. He gets into trouble, and doesn't care. It doesn't matter to him if something hurts you, he'll speak his mind. You could also say he's a "bad influence". He gets them into weed, Which is one of the main activities done in the 70's. He does turn around a bit when he moves in with the Formans in their family household. Basically saying that if you have a little money, you'll grow up better. Jackie on the other hand is filthy rich. She is also the stereotypical rich brat. She tries to buy people off, like Kelso, her boyfriend for part of the show. She buys him random things just to make him happy. She always goes running to daddy if she has a problem. She spends a lot of money on clothes and needless things. She also doesn't really care about others, only her money. And her parents are not really present in the show, they're only present when she needs money.. and money doesn't always buy Jackie's happiness.
Lastly through a freudian lens the show can easily be analyzed. The boys in the show always dream about women and what they can do to them. They sometimes let their dreams take over. The women do the same thing. They always have little dreams about what their life could be like or what they want it to be.
Brittany Bolter
period 3
For my exhibit im going to analyze the tv show "Teen Mom" and "16 and pregnant".
the first lens im going to use is the Marxist lens. In most of the stories on 16 and pregnant they arent very rich. they come from a bad family. Some of them are adopted, some are foster children or some dont have both parents support. When you are lower class and dont have alot of money being pregnant is hard. Parents and the kids having the baby have to work VERY HARD in order to raise the baby. 16 and pregnant have all different types of girls on the show but they all have at least one thing in common, they struggle. some of the fathers of the baby dip out and want nothing to do with the mothers or their babies. Most of the teen moms have to drop out of high school to raise their baby. A lot of them lose friends and lose their life because their babies come first now. Being a mom is the number one priority of most of the teens.
another lens im going to use is a feminist lens. the woman are the strong ones in this show. they have to be in order to get through the stuff they have too. they have to go through the pain with the birth and then be strong for herself and her baby when the dad leaves. The fathers are not men at all. Real men wouldnt run away from their problems, they would be their for the girls and the baby and help out. There are a select few guys who do stay and help out. Guys should have to deal with it. Its not like the girls can just leave like the guys can. Guys need to start "manning" up. They helped create the precious gift so they should have to be there to help out. A few couples stay together to raise their family but in most cases that isn’t true. Teens think having a baby will help their relationship stay together but really a baby just ruins it more. A baby is not something to count on in order to keep a relationship to stay together. A baby should have a stable house and family before they are born. Most of the teens moms on this show have a single parent or their mother had them as a teen. This is an ongoing struggle that needs to stop.
The last lens is the Freudian lens. The teens superego tells them to have sex. We are born with the instinct to reproduce and have sex. We are never really taught how to have sex its just a thing we learn from experience. In order to have a child two people have to have sex. Also in 16 and pregnant they talk about contraception.
Thinking about all the possibilities of exhibits that I could analyze and the topic that interested me the most was Facebook.com. As a teenager I find this website so helpful! I can check on how my sister is doing in college, double check graduation times(if they are on Facebook), find old friends reconnect, etc... Facebook.com has many interesting things but do half of the people who use it know how it was founded? According to FarburNovel Consulting, it was created in February of 2004by Mark Zuckerberg and 4 other Harvard colleagues. Initially it was restricted to Harvard students only but by September 11th, 2006 it was available for any e-mail address. Quoting Facebook.com's timeline, by September 25th, 2007 there were 42 MILLION active users! The number quickly grew to 100 million but August of 2008. From there it took a J curve and hit 200 million in April 2009 continued to climb to 300 million by September and now in 2010 there are 400 MILLION active users! http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
This website is their Press Room and supplies the reader with mind boggling information! Such as, “People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook” and “There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices”. Some of these Statistics are just baffling! You'll also find that there are Facebook Headquarters all around the world employing over 1,200 people. Facebook is not only fun and easy but it is safe. You are able to set your security settings and only “friend” people you know. However “60% have not changed their Privacy Settings”. On the other hand more than “75% have not added strangers and do not plan on doing so”.The user must be a smart user and not put anything up that you would not want you parents to see. Now jobs go and check you out on Facebook and if you have some iffy photographs or statuses, the job will not waste their time on you and move on.
Shockingly Facebook also turns out to be a very smart way to advertise for a business! One of the most efficient because it is free, effective, and you can reach multiple consumers. You can post coupons, upcoming events, or even thank yous. Viewing this through a Marxists Lens it is Genius, costing no money. Feminists would enjoy Facebook also because there is no discrimination.
For my exhibit, I am going to analyze the T.V. show “Desperate Housewives”. Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama serious created by Marc Cherry. The setting of the show is the street of Wisteria Lane in the fictional American town of Fairview in the Eagle State. It follows the lives of a group of women, seen through the eyes of their dead neighbor. They work through domestic struggles and family life while facing the secrets, crimes and mysteries behind the doors of their beautifully and seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. Main cast characters include; Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van de Kamp, Gabrielle Solis and the deceased Mary Alice Young as the narrator, appearing sporadically in flashbacks or dreams.
When I use my critical lenses, I see more than just the pretty faces and dramatic fights of the men and women in the show. Marxist critics make a division between the overt and the covert and try to answer questions such as; how does money matter/ function in this exhibit, and how does a power system matter/ function in this exhibit? After watching the show with a Marxist critical lens, I look at the show much differently. The families in the show live in a rich community, and though they may seem successful and happy, they are really corrupt. When I look at the name of the street, Wisteria, I see that it sounds like “hysteria”. Wisteria lane sounds like something from a fairy tale book. It sounds like it is bewitched, and after watching the show, you see that they people that live on Wisteria lane are both bewitched and hysteric. Money and social class have a great matter in this show. Most of the families that live on the lane are very wealthy and use it to their advantage. They pay people off, blame others for being jealous and buy everything they want, to try to find happiness, though it rarely connects. The names of the characters are all very typical and the lives they lead make viewers flashback to the 60’s where all women were stay at home wives that cooked and cleaned for their hardworking husbands. After I viewed the show with a Feminist critical lens, I noticed how much the women are viewed as the caretakers, and they men as hardworking husbands that bring home the “bacon”. Susan Mayer and Lynette are great examples of this. Both women take care of their children, cook and clean, while their men are out, hard at work. Though these women act like the typical 60’s housewife, Bree and Gabrielle go against the “norm”. Bree is a chef and expert baker, while her husband loses his job. Bree excels in her business, and is the hardworking parent, while the husband relies on her. Gabrielle is an ex super model, and is dependant on her rich husbands. Gabrielle is not a typical “housewife” because she cant cook or clean and hires a maid to do all of her work for her, while she cheats on each of her husbands.
Megan Bly
Period 7
The exhibit I have chosen to apply the lenses to is Shopko. The reason I have chosen Shopko to analyze is because you can easily apply the lenses to it, and I am also scheduled to work in an hour so it was on my mind. The first lens I am going to use is the feminist lens to analyze the gender roles or expectations taking place there. Shopko, being a department store, supplies its customers with carts and a parking lot to leave them after shopping. Since the carts are left out there, to get them back into the store it takes a reasonable amount of effort to push 20-30 carts uphill on rugged cement. Who has to bring these carts back inside the store one may ask? The employee automatically assigned to this task has always been a man since I have been employed there. Now I’m not sure if the manager has something against men to always assign this chore as a punishment, or if he or her feels men are better suited physically to get the job done the most efficiently. But no matter which manager is working, it will always be a male employee assigned to carts. Adding to this observation, I observed another similar situation. Shopko has another job that needs done that requires an employee to locate, take down, and bring up furniture items from the back of the store to the customer. Who is assigned to this job daily? Always the male employees are. This can or cannot be for the same exact reasons for using men to get the carts. Both these tasks require more strength than the average work load as a Shopko employee. It is not the girl’s choice to not take on these tasks; the manager is the one with the decision. And the managers, generally, are always looking for ways to maximize performance out of the employees. Knowing this, this leads to my second point. If we put on the Marxist lens we see that the managers take on a higher class in this system. Their main focus is what is best for the company, money. The more money the company gets the more power, influence, freedom, happiness, and opportunity it has. And the higher you are up in this system the more chunk of that money and happiness you get. So in reality everyone wants to climb the system’s ladder to the top and will sacrifice a lot just to do so.
I chose to do Mariah Carey for my exhibit. She is most easily conveyed through a marxist lens by, performing the songs that she has written.The media follows her everywhere she goes. She seems to have a lot of people that don't like her, maybe because she doesn't come to a whole lot of small towns. Not enough seating perhaps. That means not enough money for Mariah. I am sure that having the tough life she did, it probably wasn't easy for her to overcome her fears and the realization that she needs to go on her own life instead of worrying about everybody else.Through a Feminist lens I notice she's obviously a girl and many girls look up to her as maybe a rolemodel.I think she is a good rolemodel for teenage girls, but not little girls. Only because she does dress provacatively around everyone. I also think many people can relate to what she went through as a child, I know I can with some of it. Thats why I like her so much she just makes me feel "UN" left out of the circle. I would think though if someone had that much money they would give it away to the poor. Through a freudian lens, you see her as pretty, and at the same time a huge skank. Even when shes married to Nick Cannon go figure. I think that its a good reason why she probably gets all of her male fans that way. She had a lot more to sit and think. What can I do to make myself a better performer and musician? How can I reach out to more fans and relate to what they are going through? I am sure as time goes on she will become more famous and maybe someday she'll remember to think of the things that her fans would want for her.
ReannaMennis_6
I decided to analyze my summer job: babysitting. The last couple summers I have babysat just about everyday of the week for about 10 hours a day. I enjoy it for the most part, but it does get long. I love kids, which is a plus with this job. I am good for the system and the system is good for me. It is good because when I babysit I get to spend my time with kids and create a relationship that will last a lifetime and at the same time I am helping a family out. Not only do I watch the kids, but I play with them, cook, clean, and do other things around the house. It doesn’t bother me to be doing this stuff because I know someday I will have to be doing it when I’m a mom, might as well practice now. I also can be inside or out, depending on the weather, not many people can do both while at one job. If you look at it through a Marxist lens I am the one in charge, the boss. I have control over the kids, but I also have my own responsibility of keeping them safe. I can have fun and enjoy my time with kids while getting paid for it. Most of the time it isn’t about the money, but I have noticed that the families who are wealthier pay more. Someone in a lower class isn’t going to pay a babysitter as much because they don’t have as much. The children look up to me, I am an important role model in their life and I need to do what I can to help show them right from wrong. Sometimes babysitting can sound like all fun and games, but in reality it is loaded with responsibility. I prepare meals and clean up after them; I have to have my eye out so they do not get hurt. The parents are like my boss, they tell me things that need to be done before they arrive home, what time they need to go to bed, what we can do and what we can’t. Sometimes if I am not able to get everything the parents ask done I feel there is social tension between us because of their expectations they had for me were not met. I may not be “babysitting” the rest of my life, but I will have the same responsibilities when I have my own family, so if I carry out what I am doing now, I will have experience for when the years ahead come.
Brittney Myrlie pd. 7
for my exhibit I will analyze the sports network espn. By looking at this network with a feminist lens we definitely can see that this is a network that is made for guys. We all know that sports is considered a "man" thing. espn knows this and they use that to their advantage and they go for more of the male audience. By watching just 15 mins of espn you will probably see commercials that are targeting men. There is mens deodrant and manly products like pickups and tools and beer. All these ads not only are good for the companies but they keeps the manly viewers watching during the commercial breaks. When we get back to the show we see that some of the espn anchors are famous athletes that we all want to be like and we want to think like them. One thing noticed with a feminist lens is that there is few women anchors and if there is they are usually good looking women with huge breasts. This is degrading to women but its one tactic of espn to get viewers. One other thing we notice if that there is not much for women sports but there is a lot of coverage for the "manly" sports like baseball and football and basketball. It is a sports network but yet they only really carry the 3 or 4 main sports. With a Marxits lens we can look at why people watch espn. We want to get news and we want to know about sports but reading it in the paper or finding it out by espn is a different story. When men are talking together sports is usually what comes up. Men like to show their smarts when it comes to sports and it is always nice to say "I saw or heard that on espn". Men are attracted to espn because it is demed to be cool and it gives us the right knowledge to be a man. espn is good to the men because they give them info that we percieve to be necessary and by watching espn the men and few women that probably watch espn are good to espn by allowing them to keep running the show. espn is for the men in american the show the sports that are popular in american and give them the most attention. espn is made for the men by the use of their anchors and the commercials they air. By using the feminist and Marxist lens we can figure out what espn is all about.
Joe Egge P.5
The song I chose is "Drop the World" by Lil Wayne. I am analyzing the song in a Marxist Lens. Lil Wayne is a rapper in which he almost always raps about money and fame. He also talks about being a strong person. This song, and many others represent how Lil Wayne, Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. is showing how he can pick the whole world up like he is the king of all kings. Lil Wayne has this deal with singing about being strong and rich, in which he can overpower all other humans in some sort of "ultimate man" competition. He also makes it seem like he's been through some kind of hell that no one else has. Lil Wayne starts by saying "I got ice in my veins, blood in my eye, hate in my heart, love in my mind, I seen nights full of pain, days of the same..." The last part of this quote shows how he has "had some bad times" or is trying to show that everyone has had a better life than he has. Towards the ending of the first stanza he says "all this BS have made me strong, MF-er." Now he is stating that because of his harsh times, when he was younger, has made him wealthy and powerful in today's society. The third verse is Eminem, who is basically saying the same thing that Lil Wayne has already established. "it hurts but i never show, Its pain you'll never know, if only you can see just how lonely and how cold." It is almost like all rappers here have had some type of hardship in their lives that have changed them entirely to make them stronger and better than everyone else in the world. Finally, at the end of the song, it says "I'm gone, mf-er i'm gone" possibly symbolizing that he has had enough money, fame and power and he is calling it quits.
http://www.lyrics.com/drop-the-world-lyrics-lil-wayne.html
Lil Wayne has almost an inexplicable way of telling/showing that he has had a hell of a hard life, and now is stronger than ever because of it. Money and fame is where it is at for him.
My sample exhibit is the movie The Pacifier. At the beginning of the movie he is a big old macho man navy seal who has no clue what it is like to have a family. All he knows is the military because his father made him go to military school when he was a child. When one of his missions involves rescuing the father of the family that changes his life later in the movie. After the rescue takes place the father shows Shane a picture of his family and says you would like them they are great, he says that he doubts it. After the mishap where the father of the kids gets killed, Shane gets assigned to watch over the kids and find a program that the father created that could pose a threat to them but along the way he learns how hard a woman’s job is. As he quotes in the movie, “ and they say war is hell”. He thinks the mission is easy is first until the caretaker of the kids quits after a failed attempt to get rid of Shane that the older kids try to pull because they are tired of him running things there military style. Unfortunately for the babysitter she gets caught in the middle of it and as I said before she quits. After that Shane is scared, not because of the older kids but because of the younger kids because he has no idea how to take care of them or even worse, how to change a diaper. Babies truly do stink and I am sure you agree Mr. Christensen with a baby for you to help change. Throughout the movie he gets better at acting like a father figure and the kids all start to grow on him as well as he begins to grow on them. He does well throughout the harassment of teachers, people trying to get in and harm the kids and all the other problems that the kids bring to the table. When the conclusion of the movie is reached the kids do not want him to leave because they cannot imagine their lives without him and they want to have in their lives full time because he has been like a father to all of them. This movie is great through a feminist lens because it shows that girls are not the only ones who can take care of kids and that inside every man there is a father.
Blog by Justin Gabbert
The object I decided to examine is FIFA. FIFA is the Federation of International Football Association. It is the key pin to the soccer community. One of the reasons I chose to analyze this organization is because it is known nationally. Each and every country in the world is part of the FIFA organization. This organization can been looked at thoroughly with each critical lens. The lens i'm going to start with is the Marxist lens. With each country in its own financial status its easy to tell which soccer team has the better economy. World powers like England, Brasil and the U.S. have better training conditions. The reason for this is because there's no war going on in there homeland or a lack of players because the pay isn't good enough. If a country is going through a critical time then the team from that country could be lacking players and couches. In other words it shows how the more money your country has then the better your odds are for a better soccer team. Is it fair that even though a country may have more natural talent but they can't play for financial reasons? An example of this was how in 2006 Iraq wasn't allowed to participate in the World Cup because of their terrorist status. Many people in the U.S. consider soccer to be a gay sport. Mabey they're using a Freudian lens. Soccer is the largest sport in the world. In other countries soccer players are considered to be godly figures. In ancient Greek the gods were portrayed to show off there godly figure. The subconscious of the mind could be referring to how godly soccer players are. Each sport can be see with a Freudian lens but I believe that soccer is probably the hardest to use that lens. In baseball people use sticks and swing them around, and in boxing its two men in boxer shorts fighting for a belt. Moving on to a Feminist lens soccer is probably frowned upon. Womens soccer is the shadow of mens soccer. In comparison the relationship is like the NBA and the NWBA. Soccer might be rarely watched in the U.S. but womens is never watched. It isn't even televised. The allusion to Greek mythology is only for the men. There are only Gods and no Goddesses. Very few people know that women even play soccer. Their publicity is very low in comparison to men. Golf is showed more than womens soccer. The world and community of soccer is forever growing and reaching out to others. Soccer is the largest sport in the world and with any lens it can be explored and examined.
Tschetter_pd.6
For my exhibit I chose Greek. It is a tv series in which you get to see the life of college kids. They are in sororities and love partying. There is a love triangle that has been going on since freshman year. It is between Casey Cartwright, Cappie, and Evan Chambers. Though they all move on and have different relationships they still care for each other. Rusty Cartwright is Casey's younger brother. They look out for each other. In the end of the series Cappie asked Casey to marry him. They were the first to date in college and have had feelings for each other all four years.
If you watch it through a marxist lense, you see that almost everyone is middle class. They all have their days where money is an issue. But they help each other out. Even though stealing and/or burning down other sororities is not the way to go. Then you have Rebecca Logan whose father is governor. She is in first class and gets her way. She always takes Casey's guys. She is always one of the girls in the middle of a fight.
When your watching through femenist lenses then you see that the girls are just for partying and sex. Though they also mean power and strong beause they stay and go to class. They do what they want and have fun.
Rusty is a science geek but helps Cappie get out of alot of trouble sometimes. He finally gets a girlfriend when he wins a science fair competition and the girl he though he was dating only wanted his so she could loose her virginity. Rusty ends up dating the girl who turned out to be helping him win the contest. Rusty did in a way lose a friend because of it because his friend Dale was going for the same award but something happened and his project blew up.
When you watch the show through a Freudian lense you see that all the kids really do is drink, party, and have sex. In someways this series is about the hardships they take but also the fun times they had while going through college. They pledged, they partyed, they went to school, and in the end they all graduated. The show shows that you need to study to pass but you need to let go everyso often.
The exhibit that I chose is Tryon Gym. I work here in the children’s room and do some cleaning when I am not watching kids. Standing behind the front desk and walking around cleaning people do not really notice you, so I get to observe the people without them even knowing it really. The gym’s main floor has free weights and machines, against the back wall there is a small abs section, on the west walls there are windows and that is where the cardio machines are, on the east wall it is all mirrors and free weights. There is also an aerobic room where classes are held and that is next to the front desk and kids room. Some things that I notice are that men are always by the free weights or machines, they are usually the buff guys that are loud and social. It is almost like they are turkeys, getting all puffed up and making noise trying to outperform each other. While the women cluck around quietly on the cardio or stay in keep to the aerobic classrooms. To me it seems like the aerobics room is so foreign to men, the only time I have ever seen a man in a class is Saturday 8 AM. But just because these classes do not use 100 pound free weights does not mean that it is going to be easy or that it is only for women and I wish that more men would realize that. It is even hard to catch some men on cardio, just because there are other women around them. I wonder if they feel intimidated because they do not want the women to out run them.
Looking at the gym in a feminist lens while cleaning the bathrooms, it is said that guys are messy and irresponsible. I would like to confirm this statement. While cleaning the men’s bathroom I have seen things that I thought only happen in middle school and elementary school. Like after using at Kleenex instead of putting it in the garbage that is three feet away from the sink I have found them in the sink all wet at clogging the drain, under the sink, just on the counter, or an inch from the garbage. Also when I have been cleaning some guy comes in at starts going to the bathroom while I am standing there! I did not even know what to say, he said “Oh I didn’t know if there was a rule or something, I didn’t think it would matter.” Well there is a decency rule, not written anywhere, but people should just know. I found this disrespectful and after telling my boss and all he did was laugh, this made me feel even worse. How can I be over looked so much, just because I am a teenage girl and all I do is clean does not mean that I do not deserve any respect. I wish that my boss would also be more professional with me and how he talks to me. It is like it is a man’s world once I walk in the gym and their rules apply. Women have our haven in the aerobics room and in our own world listening to music on our headphones while doing cardio.
I exhibit I choose to analyze is a TV show; Secret life of the American Teenager. Secret Life is a teen drama created by Brenda Hampton. This show is about a 15 year old girl who becomes pregnant and all the difficulties and situations that a teen mom has to go through. This show is also about relationships from friends to families.
In this show I don’t see as much of a Marxist lens, well with money. There is not that much emphasis on money and who has more because that is not the focus of the show. I think this show has a little social class conflicts. I think they make it seem that Ricky Underwood, the father, is lower than most. They express it by having him be a foster children, the father of Amy’s baby, and the typical “bad boy”. I think that they make this so that all of us feel bad for him, we want him to be better and grow up. And Grace began as being such a good Christian girl. Adrian was considered the bad girl, and the school slut. And I think that they make Ricky and Adrian a couple just because they should be good for each other, but they are actually totally opposite. Jack was the stereotypical jock, Ben was the considered “perfect” boyfriend. And people felt sorry for Amy, the mother. Because she was considered a “good” girl and everyone felt bad about her when she became pregnant. Some how all of the characters become friends in one way or the other. Feminist lens is in this show too. Amy is the mom of the baby boy. She is in high school and typical teens are not pregnant in school. Comparing Amy and Ricky; people say that she is cute, chick, some times negative, and some may call her a slut. But with Ricky, he is tough, cool, a stud and tries to be positive. That is a double standard for those two people. This show is able to use the Freudian lens also. It talks about sex through out the whole episode. Its obvious that they have to talk about because one of the girls is pregnant. Everyone in this TV show talks about it someway or another. How they want to, why they don’t want to, being prepared. It makes one of the characters feel bad about himself because he hasn’t had sex. Because everyone else has had sex and thinks he is weird.
Emily Gardner 7
The exhibit I chose to analyze was True Blood. It is a TV show on HBO about vampires and the lives that they have in a small southern town, Bon Temps. This show can easily be described through critical lenses.
With a Marxist Lens we see that Bon Temps is a town in the Deep South. Most of the people here don’t have much of an education beyond high school and so they don’t have very high paying jobs. The main jobs only include bar workers and city construction workers. They don’t wear very nice clothing and it seems like they are a few years behind the new fashions, even though it is supposed to take place in present day. No ones houses are very large and their cars are not very nice. People seem to be about normal class for the type of city, but to people in other parts of the country, they may seem lower class. The vampires in this show have “come out of the coffin” and they function in everyday society, yet they still hold more power over the humans. The humans could never hold up their own against a vampire if they were attacked.
Through a feminist lens we can see that most of the women in this show are portrayed as sluts. In the first season alone, all of the main female characters are shown naked at least once, and many characters more than once. The women are seen as sex symbols. Jason, a main character is the typical player type. He constantly looks for the next girl he can hook up with, and there are many. Most of the girls don’t have a lot of class either, one has been married 4 times already and gets engaged for the 5th time to her 3rd husband. Other women are “fang bangers” and their soul want in life is to have sex with vampires and offer their blood to the vampires. It is interesting that the author of the books that this TV show is based off is a woman. You would think that being a woman, you would want to show the women as strong people, but she shows most of them as being anything but respectable. Sookie is about the only true woman who has morals and can stick up for herself.
Finally, with a Freudian lens, we can see how important sex is to this TV show. Each character has a lot of sex in this show. Jason could possibly be a sex addict the way that he is always looking for his next fling. Since this show is on HBO, they can show more nudity on this show than on other cable TV channels. The language and jokes are significantly cruder than on other TV shows. Also, “V juice” which is vampire blood, is an illegal drug on the show. It is very expensive and just one drop raises anyone’s sex drive through the roof.
The exhibit that I have chosen to analyze with lenses is Jessica Simpson’s new show, “The Price of Beauty.” She goes all around the world learning what lengths women will go through in different places to feel beautiful. There are many uses of the lenses in this show. For example, with a Marxist lens, in the country known for the most plastic surgery, Brazil, women will choose to have plastic surgery rather than paying their bills. And, women here do not try to hide their surgeries. They flaunt their surgeries and want everyone to know about them, making them feel and maybe even appear more powerful. Another thing I found very interesting is that in Uganda, Africa being fat is beautiful. They say the fatter the better, which is opposite of America and many of the fashion capitals of the world. Many women in this show feel they have to look a certain way. With a Freudian lens they feel they need to attract the opposite sex. They do this on a subconscious level, thinking they’re doing it for themselves. But in reality, they want a mate and attention from the opposite sex. Some women take it to the extreme though, as seen in the episodes in Paris and Uganda. In Paris, many people think the skinnier the better and in Uganda they think the fatter the better. It can become their obsession and eventually suck the life out of them. Some people end up worrying about what others think about them rather than finding inner peace with the person that they are.
Jessica Simpson wanted to start this show to help people understand that no matter where you live, you deserve to feel beautiful. Jessica was criticized herself for getting a little chubby after breaking up with Tony Romo. She has also been criticized for being too thin after filming Daisy Duke. She is definitely trying to make a change for the good, which I believe in necessary in America. Especially young girls need to realize that inner beauty is much more important than the outer. But, in the show she doesn’t go that deep. She shows how women in each country work to get their beauty on the outside, but doesn’t really show the inside. This would be the only thing that I really dislike about the show. She needs to promote more of being beautiful INSIDE and out.
I have chosen to look at what people wear day to day. Through a marxist lens you can determine what class they are people that are wearing aero, american eagle, and hollister are most likely upper middle class or high class just because of there clothing those name brand clothes do cost a lot of money and by wearing those clothes it shows you have the money to buy them. Also it shows that those kids care what they look like day to day and care what people think of them. Other kids like to wear sport clothing like nike addidas and under armour these types of clothing can show people that you are athletic and you are ready to play any type of game at time just cause your wearing t-shirts and shorts most of the time. Some kids cant afford the name brand clothes like american eagle, nike, and under armour so they are judged by others just by the type of clothing they wear and it doesnt matter how good you are at something some kids judge you on the clothes you wear or the stuff you have. People with the name brand clothing seem to also get looked at more by others and get compliments just cause of the fashion and how they look males and females are equal here everyone judges other people just on the way one looks in something or how they wear it. Also a lot of people like to wear animal print clothes showing how much of an animalistic society we are. People and animals are a lot alike but us as people we are probably worse just cause when we riducule or harm we know it hurts the person we are doing it to and we know we are doing it but we still do it anyways so the zebra and cheetah print they put on clothing probably has a lot to do with that but the difference between animals and humans is that animals dont know they are hurting the animal they are attacking they are doing it to survive and live. We as people do it just to fit in to the norm which is not right and we all just need to be nicer and not judge the people on what they wear but their personality which tells a person how they are really. But in the world we live in today it all matters what class you are in.
Martinmaas_prd 5
I am choosing to analyze the song “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha. The first line of the song, “Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy,” is a metaphor. You would not usually think that there could be literary devices in songs, but they can make a song better and add to it. This song can be analyzed through a Marxist lens. “Ain't got no money in my pocket, but I'm already here” is one line in the song. Ke$ha is saying that she is lower class, but it does not matter because she can still have fun. Money functions as not a necessity in this song, which is unusual. Usually everything has to do with having more money. In this song it seems you are given more freedom when you do not have money and are lower class. People are not oppressed just because they are lower class in this song. On the other hand one line says, “I’m talking pedicure on our toes, toes, trying on all our clothes, clothes.” That suggests more of an upper class lifestyle. Pedicures can be seen as more upper class, and surely are not for the lower class. This song could be seen as a fantasy for people that do not have a life like is described in “Tik Tok.” Ke$ha’s lyrics make her seem like she has a big ego through a Freudian lens. One line, “Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in,” makes her seem like the “queen bee.” She is showing narcissistic bliss. There are a couple of sexual lines that can be seen through a Freudian lens, as well. “And now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger.” This line is not only sexual, but shows narcissistic bliss again. It is not good to be self-obsessed, but it seems like Ke$ha’s lyrics are saying that it is not a bad thing. Another line, “Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk,” is sexual. Through a Feminist lens, you see that people are objectified in this song. “And now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger,” objectifies women. It is absurd that a line could ever be formed for a woman. Lines are formed in stores and for items like tickets, but never for women. Ke$ha’s song “Tik Tok” has many hidden messages, and it alludes to sexual things.
Wright_7
I chose to examine _Gran Torino_, a popular and recent movie starring Clint Eastwood.
_Marxist_
Throughout the entire movie, there is a constant power struggle between Walt Kowaltski (Eastwood) and a local gang that has been harassing himself and his neighbors. What starts out as a conflict between cousins fuels into the "jumping" of Thao and the raping of Szu (Thao and Szu are two of Walt's favorite young neighbors; they help him with various chores and interact with him). Eventually, this power struggle takes Walt's life as the gang (Thao's cousin is the leader) mercilessly guns the elderly man down. However, the gang realizes that it is they who have indeed lost the power struggle (they realize that they have been tricked by Walt and end up in prison, where they belong). Power is also represented through Walt's Gran Torino, his beloved and expensive automobile. At one point in the movie, Thao attempts to steal it to gain access into his cousin's gang. However, Walt wakes up in the middle of the night and prevents hims from doing so. Walt has power through his Gran Torino, and through his no-nonsense personality. Walt is seen as very powerful, even rejecting his Catholic reverend several times throughout the film. Walt takes joy in very few things in life, the following of which include his dog, Daisy, his barber, his house, his car, and his recently deceased wife. He finds joy and life again in his neighbors, Thao and Szu (two Asian immigrants), and relishes them far more than his spoiled, rich white children. Thao can be seen as extremely weak in the film and works for Walt, similar to a master-slave relationship, to repay the debt of trying to steal his car. The gang also has a plethora of power, almost seeming to have unlimited power. Walt realizes this; that the gang's power/threat/presence will never diminish/go away until he does something drastic (sacrifice himself for his friends; they have a future; Walt has already lived his life; he's dying anyway). This film is mainly a 'blue collar job' film. The only presence of white collar workers comes from Walt's rich, spoiled family. Otherwise, the plot and setting remain in the tough, low-income, dangerous neighborhood that Walt has chosen to remain in. Walt is very pro-system. He is white, old, Catholic, hard-working, fought overseas for the military, worked in an assembly line for Ford Motors, and refuses to speak about, buy, or touch anything that is un-American. The gang, however, is very anti-system. They drive around all day, not educated, and look for trouble. In my opinion, they bring a negative reputation to our society, to their cultures, and to their races, as well. In the beginning, it seems as though Walt doesn't have a friend in the world, exploiting the 'individual vs. system' theme in our Critical Notes packet. Throughout the entire film, we view the world from the eyes of a racist, bitter old man (which is good to have variety, seeing as how movies are usually muscular guys or happy-go-lucky average guys). Throughout the movie, however, Thao and Szu finally seek peace from the gang and "climb the social ladder".
Wright_7
_Feminist_
Women are seen as having a side role in _Gran Torino_. They are not seen as having as much as power as the men do, in this film. There are no females in the threatening gang (saying that women are aggressive/hostile/savage enough?), Walt's wife is deceased and it is evident that he 'wore the pants' in the relationship, the pastor is a male (even though, to Walt, he acts like a girl), Szu (a main female character) gets raped by the male gang members, Thao's girlfriend is an item and a tool, etc. However, even though Szu gets raped, she is still bold and adamant throughout the film. She stands her ground when three African-Americans try to threaten her, and she always stands up for Thao, Walt, her family, and what she believes in. Szu is the "unsung hero" of _Gran Torino_. She should be the main character. She is selfless, caring, resourceful, intelligent, and open-minded, whereas Walt is selfish, narrow-minded, racist, sexist, a hermit, a recluse, and, at some points in the film, downright mean and cruel. Unfortunately, women are severly restricted on reaching their potential abilities, seeing as how this is a traditional film.
I choose to analyze “The Hills” with the Marxist lens. The girls are all about money and so are the guys. The girls are all only friend with the rich boy, until “Justin-Bobby” get in the twist. But no girl really takes him seriously, yet they can not leave him alone. All the girls have fashion jobs and cloths make them look like they have more money. Everything about The Hills is about money. Heidi even had plastic surgery on her back! What is the point of that?! When you have plastic surgery on your back and have nothing better to spend your money on then everything about your life is money, your life revolves around money. It is not about survival for them its all about looks, money and popularity. The girls are teaching the people that watch the show to do what?! They revolve their lives around surgery’s, social events, money, fashion, boys, and looks. If they have enough money to spend on the legs, butt, and back, then why can’t they spend it on something that will help the world out? The boys and girls all go out and live that “dream”/ “drama” filled life style. I also looked at it with a feminist lens. I think that the girls are all categorized it a “social” group, and when those social groups mix, its drama. Drama is a normal girl thing. Lauren is now not on the Hills, Kristen is, Kristen is more dramatic and MTV thinks that because of the switch and more drama they will get more people to watch it. But in reality people do not like her. I always said I would never watch it because of it. But now that Heidi got surgery I want to watch to see what people say. The fact that her mom does not even like her face or any of her surgery’s shows that people liked Heidi for who she was.
Wright_7
_Freudian Lens_
Walt's rifle that he uses several times throughout the film could be a phallic symbol, representing the power/size of his penis (his penis dominates over the others almost every time). Walt realizes after Thao gets shot in the neck and Szu gets raped what he has to do, deep within the regions of his mind (he knows what to do, but he doesn't know how he should do it). In his anger towards the gang and the problems they present towards him and his neighbors, he proceeds to smash his hands into his glass shelves, making his knuckles bleed severly. Without even cleaning his hands up, he goes over to his chair, sits in it, and stares at the floor for a long time, thinking, pondering, knowing what he must do for Thao's/Szu's sake. This has an ENORMOUS impact upon the viewer (very emotional/gripping) scene. For an Oedipal complex, Thao wants to get rid of his 'bad father figure', his annoying and ruthless cousin who is leader of the gang. Another Oedipal complex, Walt's son/grandkids also want him to die so they can get all of his assets. There's actually a stimulating scene at the end of _Gran Torino_ that deals with Walt's assets and his eager family. Additionally, at the beginning, Thao wants Walt to die so he can steal his car/stop doing so many chores to make up for trying to steal his car (Oedipal). Walt wishes he could go back to a state of narcissism, in which his wife were alive and things were more traditional (his neighbors were white, gangs weren't prevalent, he was in his 'Army Glory Days', etc. The reason why the black guys begin talking to and almost rape Szu is because of their sex drives. They wouldn't have been talking to her if she were ugly/fat/homely. Walt is, without a doubt, the superego, constantly fighting for his house and for his neighbors. The gang can be portrayed as the id, persuading and sometimes coercing Thao to do things their way. Thao is the ego, deciding whether to listen to Mr. Kowalski or to his cousin. At first, Thao listens to his id (his cousin tells him to steal Walt's Gran Torino); however, later he sways over towards Walt and listens to and satisfies his superego. Szu and the rest of Thao's family listen to and satisfy their superegos as well, remaining humble, obedient, and honorable.
For my exhibit im going to analyze the tv show The Hills.
The first lens im going to use is the Marxist lens. I chose this lens because in this show the Hills, most of the girls have lots of money to spend and don’t have a problem spending it. As you look at everyone else that they aren’t filming it looks like they have money to spend you never see a person who looks low class, its always the high class people. Since these girls get paid to be on the show they seem to have other random girls try to be their friend just so they can be on the show. All of the girls show that they have money because of how they act and what they wear. Like in our society right now, I don’t think that we could spend as much money as them everyday on stuff we really don’t need. Also most of these people probably get their money from their parents the majority of the time. There is no way were these people can live along the beach and be able to pay for their rent plus spend it on clothes and other things. The girls in the show all work with fashion and design, which makes them, look even more high class. With all their money that they have and spend it on stupid things Heidi had plastic surgery on her face and also breast implants. I do laugh at this because her very own mom doesn’t like how she looks. She told Heidi that she likes the old Heidi and that the surgery was a waste of money. To the viewers it makes them want to keep watching because since Heidi got the surgery who knows what the others will do with their money!
The second lens I used was the feminist lens. I sort of see the groups in the show as social groups because one minute the group is fine but when someone new comes in the group it sometimes goes down hill especially when they know that person causes lots of drama. This show is pretty much all drama between the girls jus like we have in our everyday lives. The drama is just mostly with the girls and not so much with the guys because guys go with the flow and girls well that’s just a normal thing. With all the drama in the show Lauren didn’t want to be on it anymore especially when Kristen came in the picture. Lauren and Kristen don’t get along very well because Kristens life is full of drama and brings drama to the people who she hangs out with just to get attention. I think girls especially watch this because they can somewhat relate to what the people in the Hills are talking about and going through.
The exhibit I chose to write about is the movie "Aladdin." This is a Disney movie that i loved to watch when I was younger. In the movie the main character named Aladdin who lives with his monkey named Abu. Under a Marxist lens Aladdin is a really poor guy with absolutely nothing to offer. He is called a street rat throughout the movie meaning that he doesn't have a home and lives by stealing things. This movie is all about the social classes. There is this girl, Princess Jasmine, who is tired of being stuck in the palace. She decides to escape and she ends up meeting Aladdin. Aladdin likes Jasmine but he knows that he will never have a chance with her because he is a street rat and she is a princess. The law in their society is that a princess must only marry a prince. He then ends up becoming a fake prince just to be with her. This proves that you have to be in a higher class to be happy and find someone to be with. Aladdin had to climb the social ladder per say in order to get the girl. Also looking under a Marxist lens you would ask are the lower classes given more or less freedom? When you watch the movie you see that it is opposite of what you would think. The highest class people that are royalty and live in the palace are actually the ones without freedom. They have to stay in the palace at all times. The people that live in the city are free to do as they please. This is why Jasmine ends up escaping the palace because she isn't happy and wants to get out!
A Feminist critic would ask if there are natural roles that the men and women take. The answer is yes. The princess must be a beautiful woman that is there for beauty and does no work. The men are expected to be in control and tough. This is true in this movie because there is Jafar, the evil guy that is after the throne. He is powerful and has people serving him such as the guy that goes in the cave to get the lamp and ends up being eaten. There is also the expectation that princes have a lot of money and also win the genetic lottery. There are also the men that are the body guards. They are all big strong men that are supposed to beat up people. In their society the woman can't be in control. It always has to be the man. Feminist critics would hate that the women don't have the opportunity of being equal to the men, and I agree with them.
The exhibit i decided to anyalyze is the current book we are reading the "Life of Pi." I'm currently only on page 200 but there is plenty this far into the book to anyalyze with these lenses
Marxist.
A marxist lense would reveal all the differnt social classes within a zoo setting. There are a couple of ways that one could analyze the social classes in the zoo though. One way would be in that the animals are on top in the high class, the visitors are in the middle class, and the workers are in the lower class. One could intepret it this way because the animals are being served their meals, shelter, water, medical care, and anything else they need to feel comfortable. The visitors harrass the animals but only enough not to get hurt by them. And in a way they order around the workers to do their job in order to have their own pleasure. The workers are in the lower class because they do all the work and do everything to make the classes above them happy. Another way the classes could be interpreted would be workers being high, visitors being middle again, and the animals being in the lower class. The workers would be in the higher class because the controll everything that goes on in the zoo. The animals would be in the lower class becuase they are being suppressed by both the workers and the visitors to be stuck in cages.
Feminist.
When Pi asks his father to be baptised and for a prayer mat his father responds by telling him to ask his mother. This reveals two things. One that men may be too lazy or busy to make such unimportant decisions. Another thing is that Pi's father believes that his woman will settle his problems and clean up any loose ends left by Pi. Later when Pi's father gets outraged that she let him get the two items it reveals that even if men give women a chance no matter what they do men will always see a fault in it because either they didn't have the chance or because they wanted to take the glory because they are suppose to provide the items for the family.
Fruedian.
While on the boat there is a dramatic display of how the id comes out in everyone. When the hyena and orange juice fight its because they both wanted to satisfy their need for food so they decided the fastest way with the least amount of effort was to fight and kill the other person. Another time an id prevails is when Pi searches the boat for water. Even though he is mear feet from a 450 pound tiger he has to satisfy his id to find water so he will do anything.
Cj Wachter
My exhibit i chose to analyze was my job, Tailgators Bar and Grill. I love working there and I get to experience many different types of people and issues. At Tailgators there are so many people, posters, music, and many other objects you can analyze. The biggest and easiest things to analyze are the people that stop in and the people that work there. First off you can use a marxist lens and tell which type of social class they are in. The other day while I was hosting a man came in with longer hair than mine, sunglasses on, dirty clothes, white socks with flip-flops on. By the looks of him you can assume he is in the lower class. On the other hand there are people who come in to Tailgaots everyday and eat. A man name David comes in and eats every night as well as sometimes for breakfast or lunch. He drives a hummer and two other nice cars, you can see that he has lots of money. All the servers also love when he comes in because of the nice tip he leaves for them. Then there are the people that come in who you can decide what class they are in. Some who are dressed fancy never leave the servers a good tip and those who are in sweats leave the servers an awesome tip. Analyzing the customers can be easy for some and hard for others. You can also use the feminist lens to analyze the people. You can usual tell between the women who are treated like queens from those who are treated like sex objects. The queen ladies are those who come in and get all the doors opened for them, they get to choose what side to sit on, and a booth or a table. At times, the men may even take of their jacket and/or pull out their chair for them. The sex object women are those who have to open the doors for themselves and the husband doesn't ask them where they care to sit or never get a chair pulled out for them. I get the vibe that their lives are completely controlled. Analyzing the customers can even be fun. When they walk in sometimes is fun to guess what side they want or to guess whether they will be cheery and nice or the grumpy people you hate to talk to.
The exhibit I chose to use the lenses on was a Bud Light "Too Light, Too Heavy" commercial. The specific ad I used was the commercial where the two guys are playing paintball in the woods and the one guy calls in an airstrike. When using the Marxist lenses to simple phrase, "Too Light, Too Heavy" seems to suggest that this beer is made for the middle class. The phrase could also be related to the childhood story of Goldilocks. This simple, little, brilliant phrase suggests that Bud Light is not quite right for the poor, or is not right for the unbelievably rich; it is made for the working man. It is clear that the target market for Bud Light would be primarily men, who are trying or are living the American Dream.
If the Feminist lens is applied to this exhibit, one can clearly see the gender roles that are presented in the advertisement. Bud Light links men to soldiers, guardians, protectors, competitors, and athletes. In most societies men are the ones who go to war, work jobs, and are almost always perceived to be barbaric, blood-thirsty, and warriors. However when one watches the commercial one can pick up that there are no women present throughout the entire commercial. This suggests that women lack these qualities that men have in this commercial. Making us believe and creating norms on how we feel that men and women should act in our society. Men are perceived to be power hungry, always wanting the biggest, most powerful thing out there. This becomes clear in the commercial by closely observing the two different scenes, in the first the guy seems to be upset because his gun lacks power and the other guy is thinking what is he doing? In the second scene suggest that he has the power he desires, and decides to show mercy. The advertisement also does a great job of associating itself with the norms of our society so that they may become norms. This makes people believe that sitting around drinking beer is a very fun thing to do.
When the Freudian Lens is applied the paintball guns are metaphorical symbols of genitals, in the first scene the guy has a paintball gun that truly lacks the umphh to deliver a hit. However the second scene makes him seem to have all the firepower at his disposal. The advertisement also suggest that men dream of warfare, and becoming and being the hero in combat.
Ryan Hansen
I just wanted to state to Katie_1 your story was nothing but the truth and it cracked me up quite a bit.
I chose to examine the circus. I saw many glow sticks in which I looked at with a Freudian lense. I saw these glow sticks as things kids didn't even need but their Ids and nagging of parents got them these glows sticks. I found these sticks really rediculous when the little 4 year old girl kept slapping me in the head with her glow lightsaber.
I looked at it as well with a Marxist lense. I did this by thinking about how great of an act the circus put on and how much money the owner of the circus act makes. But is he making money through cruelty I thought at first? I think it is wrong to take wild animals out of their natural habitat. These animals are trained to do whatever their trainer tells them to do. And what do they get if they perform well? They get fed. After awhile of thinking about it even humans are trained. Professional athletes for example are just like the animals at the circus: they play, they get cheered for, and fed plenty with all the money they make. If you think about it even more humans train themselves to do the same thing everyday. Myself for example: I get up, go to school, go to work, mess around for a few hours, and go to bed. We are trained to do the same things everyday which we subconsiously notice.
I looked at the circus through a feminest lense as well by noticing which parts of the circus the men and women were in. I noticed that a man was in the pit with the tiger controlling what they did. I personally thought this was because men are seen stronger than girls. If a girl would've been out their the stunt wouldn't be praised as much and the tigers wouldn't be seen as dangerous animals. Also when the soft toned music was on and the two girls seemed to fly to the ceiling it was pretty unique. If men were used in this act it would be considered "fagish" or "gay." Everything is done on purpose when your putting on a show for thousands and the one thing the director or owner doesn't want to do is spark controversy and the circus did a great job. I personally thought this was worth the eight dollars I spent on getting into the circus and I enjoyed myself.
AJ Plummer Pd.3
the exhibit i have chosen to analyze is my favorite show Law and Order SVU. tv shows are great to analyze because you can pick apart alot of aspects of them and they have alot of meaning and stereotypes in them. Law and order SVU is a good show i believe because of their character selection and the way their characters are portrayed. The main character is detective Elliot Stabler, he is an ex marine turned cop then detective he is a good detective but has some anger issues, and loses his temper alot, this is stereotypical of how he perceive marines to be. The other detective is Olivia Benson, she is the stereotypical good cop, who is also a female, she relates to alot of special victims because her mom was an alcoholic and she had a rough childhood because of this. Through a feminist lense we see that even though she is a well accomplished female she still has alot of skeletons in her closet. The other two main detectives are "munch" who is a philosophical jewish detective, he is the stereotypical jew who is smart and very analytical in everything he does, and also the clothing they have him wear. "finch" is the other detective this is played by former rapper ice T they use this to their advantage when assigning character personalities because finch has a thuggish attitude, is in touch with all the urban people and their ways, and came up in the ranks through the narcotics unit, ironic because he is the only black detective and in real life he is a rapper. The Chief is Kraigen he is an ex alcoholic, this is stereotypical because he is irish. The Freudian lense can be used extensively to analyze this show because most of the criminals they pursue are just trying to achieve the bliss they achieved as infants, so they commit these hanous (sp) crimes. The marxist lense is another great tool to use because class plays a huge role in this show, Characters who are wealthy have much more lee way on the show and can get away with a lot more, and treat the cops poorly because they know they are of a higher social class then them, also their social connections make them difficult for the detectives to deal with. This is my favorite show for many reasons including the ones i just mentioned, and im watching it right now.
I chose a perfume advertisement from Seventeen magazine to analyze. It is Baby Phat dare me perfume by Kimora Lee Simmons. In this advertisement, Kimora is the main focus because she takes up most of the page and is placed right in the center. She has very little clothing on, showing off her long legs. Her hands are on her hips making her look like she is in charge and means business. The perfume is placed between her legs on purpose. Her bra, which is noticeably showing, matches her red high heeled shoes. This color was most likely chosen because it is a sexy color that catches the reader's eyes. The perfume bottle is pink, along with the words "dare me" covering the background. This color is popular among advertisments because it catches girl's attention, since it is a "girl" color. It is also appealing because it is bright and fun. A dull colored page with greys and browns probably would not get as much hype. Most readers just flip past advertisements, unless they are eye-catching. The fragrance name "dare me" could insinuate many different things for the customer to interpret. It is a bold statement that shows the power behind people who wear it. Using a Marxist Lens, you see that they chose someone who has a lot of money. The display this through her jewelry and just by the way she looks. They make it seem like anyone can buy this perfume and be wealthy just like Kimora. Women look at this ad and think by buying this product they can be just like her. Using a Feminist Lens, you see that the woman has power. There isn't a guy in the ad, let alone mention of one. There is also little bottles of the perfume all over the background with different phrases next to each one. They all show feminine qualities that women would like to possess. They include: to be sexy, to be bold, to be flirty, to be glam, to be edgy, and to be me. Using the Freudian Lens, you can see that they chose a good-looking woman. She is in shape and puts forth an effort in her appearance. Also, her skimpy shirt has pieces wrapped around her waist into a bow. This could be like a bow on a present waiting to be unwrapped. This piece of her shirt is sticking straight out past her body which is a phallic symbol.
The exhibit I am choosing to analyze is a song by the Dave Matthews Band called, "Lie in Our Graves". All DMB songs have amazing and meaningful lyrics. I particularly love this song because it has a huge message, but puts it into simple terms. The message is to not just sit and wait around in life and wonder what could have been. To go to the top of the world and let your legs hang over the edge. To not live in the past and dwell over it, to live in the right now and fully embrance it. To me this would be a good way to prevent dystopia!
Through a marxist lens "sittin' on top of the world" could mean that you can be the ruler of the world and have ultimate power. If you are on top of the world, you rule the world. "When I step into the light" can have two meanings: 1. he could be realizing something, seeing the bright side of things. 2. he could be stepping into a dream or heaven and seeing the light.
"When I step into the light, my eyes searching wildly" could mean that he is looking for answers, he is desperate to try and find something.
"When I'm walkin' by the water, splish splash me and you takin' a bath". This can be viewed as sexual through a freudian lens. Many couples take baths to connect on a intimate level, but this can also be viewd as a man and woman who are friends looking back at their childhood and remembering when they swam together as children, it does not literally need to be taken as getting naked and taking a bath.
"When I'm walkin' by the water, come up through my toes, to my ankles, to my head, to my soul I'm blown away". This line could also be viewed through a freudian lens as a reference to an orgasm. They say you feel them throughout your whole body, and that is what is being described here. This line can also be taken as being very sensitive. Using all of your senses to experience the feeling of mud a water between your toes, not taking even the littlest experiences for granted.
"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves, wondering if we had spend our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves, dreaming of things that we might have been". This is the part of the song I was referring to earlier when describing the meaning of this song. This means, "I can't believe that people are so lazy as to do nothing with their lives, and then wonder why they have no vivid, exciting memories in their life." well no duh, you are going to be doing that if you live the life of a lazy glutton. So enjoy the small things and live life using every sense you have, take nothing for granted and just be happy.
Lyle Hall_6
For my exhibit I chose to do the TV show “The office”. This TV show has many diverse characters including the main character Mr. Scott. From the view of a spectator the whole office is a giant waist of time and form a Marxist lenses they are not good for the system because they do not get any work done. Thought that same Marxist lenses this office would make no money and would ruin the economy doing no one good and running themselves into the ground. A Marxist lenses would not approve of the boss Mr. Scott because he causes trouble around the office, is easily persuaded in the wrong directions, and does absolutely no work at all.
Through a Freudian lenses a person can plainly see all the comments made about sexual things. Mr. Scott was typing on the computer and then the computer was saying what he said and he typed,”Boobs, you are looking fine baby”. It is used in this show to add comedy and for those reading this who don’t know what comedy is, it is the thinking in the back of the mind that tells you to laugh without stopping and is almost uncontrollable when watching this show. This is so much references to sexual items or parts in this show but it adds to it because there is not too much that it makes it inappropriate but enough that it makes you think about the sexual things that go on at the office or in the world around you such as co-workers that my be getting together without any of the other office workers knowing about there unruly actions.
I am not good at looking through a feminist lenses but I will try. Through a feminist lenses the women in this show are used as cover-ups and not as much power as the men. Although the most powerful person is a women and all the men except one make bad decisions constantly while the women make much smarter decisions and have much higher career prospects. If there where just the women form the office in the show they would actually get some work done but since there is also men they take some of the time away form the women and distract them form there jobs and the women do not spot the men from doing stupid things but look on and laugh at there mistakes.
Kortney Fisher
pd.3 April 27
The exhibit I will analyze is Desperate Housewives. While viewing this show it gives women a little bit of a bad image, but these housewives are given respect. Susan is a single mom, struggling between which man to be with, and the one who is the main supporter of Julie, her daughter. She is shown as helpless and ditzy but also as powerful and strong willed. Bree is the typical housewive. She stays home and takes care of the kids, makes the meals, and cleans the house. She doesn't really have any sort of income until she writes a book. She does stand up for herself and what she believes. Lynette is shown as the stay at home mom, but once her husband loses his job, she is the one who needs to stick up for the family and take the role as the one who brings home the "bacon". She is very strong willed and doesn't give into to anyone's drama rarely. The time she is seen as weak is when she finds out her cancer comes back and she is not really capable in doing anything because the chemo makes her really weak and tired. Edie is the homewrecker. She is the single women who is really wealthy (real estate agent) and the one who breaks up relationships. She has gotten with two of the housewives ex husbands and one ex boyfriend. She knows what she wants and knows exactly how to get it. She out of all the women is the most powerful, that is why the girls are jealous and envious of her! Last but not least is Gabi. She is the popular one out of all them. I view her as a gold digger. She uses guys for their money and also for sex. That gets her and her husband, Carlos, into alot of trouble. She is also a strong powerful women who has moments as coming off as a bit**, but again like most stands up for herself. She also is the trouble maker in the group by causing alot of drama on Wisteria Lane. All of the girls have different backgrounds and stories, but one thing they all have in common is, they LOVE to gossip about other people living on Wisteria Lane. It is how they thrive on being friends. They all have said things behing the others backs making the viewer question if they really are true friends. The men in the show kind of seem as the less dominate person, tending to the girls needs, and doing whatever it is possible to make the ladies happy. In this show, the girls are more dominate then the males, they are strong, most are the income in the family, and the ones who make things happen.
I chose to look at the TV show "Family Guy". This is a popular show that often makes people laugh. Through a feminist lens you can see that women are always degraded. Lois is the mother and even though see is a very smart and passion women, she is only looked at as a sex toy. Looking smoking hot after having and caring for three children, her nitwit husband always takes advantage of her. She is clearly the most intelligent character yet she gets little respect. Meg is the daughter dealing with growing up and developing. She is constantly mocked and put down by everyone at school and her family. The only person who will even give her a passing glance is a lone nerd named Neil. Often when Meg speaks it results in her father saying, "Shut up Meg!". She is a smart, caring and bright young women who, tragically, is doomed to look like her father her whole life. Any other women in the show are shown as stupid and gullible sex demons. Through a marxist lens who notice that Peter never holds down a job for long and constantly gets himself and his family into trouble, but for some reason Lois stays with him and his children continue to love him. The characters who ideally seem like the leaders is Brian, the family dog and Stewie, the baby. Every other person living in Quohog is a sheep. Whatever happens happens; why do anything about it? The freudian lens plays a major part in the show. Sex seems to be the only thing on everyone mind in this show. The Griffin family lives on Spooner Street, their neighbor Quagmire has had sex with more women than earth population, and every joke is directed downwards. Brian, the family dog, is always having sex with human women; the baby Stewie is assumed to be gay and having sex with everyone in the town (even if your married or whatever) is seen to be just hunky-doorie. I enjoy watching "Family Guy". I do find it humerous but sometimes the humor does not completely cover up the lack of respect, emotion, and common sense the show desparately lacks. But everyone know that common sense is not funny!
The exhibit that I decided to study was “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction”. In this newest installment of the eight year franchise, the protagonist, Sam Fisher, is on the prowl to find his daughter’s killer. Throughout his journey of trying to find solace in his life, Fisher soon realizes how the life he thought he knew was nothing but smoke and mirrors. Even though this game may look like it is all about ruthless killing and how gritty the violence is shown in this game, one must take a “step back” and look at the different lenses, the game then becomes a clearer, more effective way of pulling at the “heartstrings” of an individual, and especially a parent’s.
The first lens I used was the Marxist lens; using this lens, I discovered the timeless influence of money and power that is really prevalent in this story. One way this lens becomes more apparent is by the new Third Echelon director, Tom Reed. Reed, being a ruthless man, would stop at nothing to achieve his overall goal. Reed attempts this feat by using money to hire PMC mercenaries, buying three Russian EMP warheads, and finally using his money to try gaining greater power in the U.S. government; however, Reed does not only use his money, but uses his political influences such as; bribery, extortion, and even killing anyone that stands in his way. A second way the player sees this is by infiltrating Andriy Kobin’s mansion. Kobin is the man responsible for killing Sam’s only daughter, Sarah. In the mission, Fisher sees the enormous wealth Kobin has obtained; one way Fisher sees this is by his mansion. The mansion is interesting because it was an old museum turned into a mansion in Malta. Another way we can see how much wealth Kobin has is from his ties to Third Echelon and more specifically Tom Reed.
The second lens I used was the Freudian lens. Throughout this game, the players get to see what Fisher is currently feeling like or what could possibly be going on in one of the most ruthless spies of all time’s head. This feat is obtained by projecting a grainy movie on a surface, this effective technique allows the player to view the back-story of a character or in a highly emotional scene, and Fisher is riding an elevator into his former employer, Third Echelon. The movie being shown on the elevator walls in which envelopes Fisher as he is surrounded by flashbacks of all his past conspirateering, including the image of him swimming in the inky night ocean, whose flickering waves move over the real Sam's face giving the impression of drowning in the place he'd once stored all his trust. The second way we see how emotionally damaged Sam is how he realizes that his best friend had lied to him about the death of his daughter in order to protect her from a possible assassination and also how Sam feels about killing his best friend in the line of duty to further ensure his cover was not blown as a double agent infiltrating a terrorist organization. The most memorable line from “Conviction” is Fisher talking to Reed at the end of the game; “You cost me three years of my life when I thought my daughter was dead!” This quote just shows how emotionally scarred Sam is from even believing the fact his daughter was “dead”.
-Matt Thompson pd 6
I am going to analyze the TV series The Office. The Office with its dry quick witted humor is actually a very complicated and thought out show. The entire show is about everyday life in a small office of a paper company Dunder Mifflin. The main characters are Michael, Jim, Ryan, Dwight, Stanley, Phyllis, Pam, Angela, Andy, Kevin, and Toby. Through a Marxist lens they are all shown as middle class people besides corporate and Dwight. Dwight wants to show himself as being below middle class because he lives on his beet farm and is very proud of living off his land. Dwight is very cautious with what he spends his money on and takes pride being the number one salesman season after season. Speaking of salesman that brings up the feminist lens and how there are four main women characters and only one of them is a salesman or salesperson and that is Phyllis, but she is shown very motherly. The other women are in accounting and the receptionist typical women jobs as society sees them. Michael is the regional manager at the office and has many views on many different things. A Marxist lens shows us how even though he seems like he is the dumbest person we have ever met his branch brings in the most money for the company. Michael through a feminist lens shows us he is very good with people making him very successful in the business. Jim is seen as a star athlete that ended up in the paper company and never seemed to escape. He is in love with Pam the receptionist. Pam is an inspiring artist between answering the phone and taking messages. Pam has the most ideal role of a woman in the office which that being a receptionist. Another woman in a feminist lens would be Angela and how she is in charge of all the parties the office throw for birthdays and holidays. She is very conservative and seems like she is a high status than others but really is not. Also that he is affectionate. Through a Freudian lens the office seems like a dream. A dream job being the most ideal place to have a decent job with not a lot of work load and just a ton of fun down to earth caring people. I recommend this show to learn little life lessons and to get quite a laugh!
The exhibit that I am choosing to analyze is the television show 'Dancing with the Stars.' When I am watching this show my feminist lens is turned on. Everything about the woman is key to this show. I also must turn on my fruedian lens also. There is constant talking about arousement and something sexual constantly in the show. Through my feminist lens all the girls in the show wear barely any clothes and are being thrown around by the male figure as they dance. You can see in the judges that if the girl's show a little more sexual arousement in their dance that they enjoy it more. Among the judges there are two males and one female; although the majority of dancers are girls that are being judged. The males that are being judged do much less in the act of dancing compared to the girl's. While I watch I see that the girl's are treated much differently than the men. Also, as I look more into the fruedian lens I can see that all that goes through the judges minds are sex. When the dance is over the first things the judges comment on is how much their dance aroused them or did not arouse them. Then after they have done that they comment on the foot work and the abilities of the dance. These kind of comments is what is mostly aimed towards the female dancers, the males also but not as much as the females. What I see through this show is that the females have a lot more pressure than the males do as they learn all the various step moves to their specific dance. What I find interesting is that they claim this show to be a family show. If I had a child I would not want them watching this show because the women are barely wearing anything and they make sexual comments all the time. Yes the show is enjoyable to watch if you understand the concepts but otherwise not. I believe you could look at this with a Marxist lens too. There are ads that pay extra money to play during the time of dancing of the stars just because they know a lot of people are watching it. It is also interesting how the host says how AT&T customers can text there results in. That in itself is an advertisement also.
Melissa Bendixen_6
The exhibit I chose to anyalyze is the book we are currently reading the "Life of Pi." I'm currently only on page 187 but there is plenty this far into the book to anyalyze.
Fruedian. While on the boat there is a dramatic display of how the id comes out in everyone. When the hyena and orange juice fight its because they both wanted to satisfy their need for food so they decided the fastest way with the least amount of effort was to fight and kill the other person. Another time an id prevails is when Pi searches the boat for water. Even though he is mear feet from a 450 pound tiger he has to satisfy his id to find water so he will do anything.
A marxist lense would reveal all the differnt social classes within a zoo setting. There are a couple of ways that one could analyze the social classes in the zoo though. One way would be in that the animals are on top in the high class, the visitors are in the middle class, and the workers are in the lower class. One could intepret it this way because the animals are being served their meals, shelter, water, medical care, and anything else they need to feel comfortable. The visitors harrass the animals but only enough not to get hurt by them. And in a way they order around the workers to do their job in order to have their own pleasure. The workers are in the lower class because they do all the work and do everything to make the classes above them happy. Another way the classes could be interpreted would be workers being high, visitors being middle again, and the animals being in the lower class. The workers would be in the higher class because the controll everything that goes on in the zoo. The animals would be in the lower class becuase they are being suppressed by both the workers and the visitors to be stuck in cages.
Feminist. When Pi asks his father to be baptised and for a prayer mat his father responds by telling him to ask his mother. This reveals two things. One that men may be too lazy or busy to make such unimportant decisions. Another thing is that Pi's father believes that his woman will settle his problems and clean up any loose ends left by Pi. Later when Pi's father gets outraged that she let him get the two items it reveals that even if men give women a chance no matter what they do men will always see a fault in it because either they didn't have the chance or because they wanted to take the glory because they are suppose to provide the items for the family.
Charlie Sellers_6
For my exhibit i decided on the TV show "Family Guy". This show can be easily analyzed through any type of lens because of its crude humor it uses in every single episode.
Using a Marxist Lens I notice that it is all about middle class citizens who usually interact with each other. In some episodes Peter (who is family guy) and his family interact with the upper class, who are Lois's (Peters wife) parents. In these episodes, Peter and his family are always treated like crap from the upper class. In one other episode, the family has to live in the south. They consider it as the lowest of the classes and in the episode they definitely portray that. Everything in the town that they are now living in, for one episode, is completely rundown and just looks awful. At the end they even start poking a dead guy in a river with a stick for fun. Obviously, if that was not the upper class then the body would have been reported and people would care.
When I look at "Family Guy" through a Freudian Lens there are also many things that I noticed. There is one episode where Chris, Peter's son, has a big pimple on his cheek. The pimple starts talking to him. Chris is not very smart in all the episodes and usually listens to his Superego. This big pimple starts telling him to do stuff that he does not want to do. He does these things anyway because the pimple is acting like his Id that tells him to do the stupidest stuff. In another episode, Chris wants to lose weight. He tries everything possible, and works really hard, but he just cannot lose any weight. His father, Peter, tells him that he can just to liposuction. They go to the clinic, where he can get liposuction, to get rid of the fat, but Chris listens to his Superego and decides not to do it because he thinks it would just be a waste of money, and he wants to do it naturally. Since they were at the clinic, Peter listens to his Id, like he does in just about every single episode for humor, and gets liposuction.
Also, when looking at "Family Guy" through a Feminist Lens, there are many things that woman would frown upon. In a lot of the episodes, Meg, Peter's daughter, is always treated poorly. In one episode, Brian and Stewie, travel through different universes using some device. They travel to a universe where everything looks like Disney has created it. So everybody are singing and skipping around having a good time. There is a little scene of Meg looking like the ugliest octopus ever. Also, in every episode she is just made fun of because of how ugly she is. This could possibly make women feel bad about themselves.
THe exhibit i am going to analyze is going to be "Family guy". It shows huge amounts of Feminist and Freudian lense with some marxist.
For the feminist side of family guy. The title even has guy in it. it shows that the movie might be about a guy of a family. you only get to see when the guys go out, cleveland quagmire peter and joe. you never see any of there wife's going out and having fun with the girls. the guys are the only ones that get to go out and not stay home to take care of the kids. The women have never had a girls night out. showing that the men could be dominate. But on the other side lious is a house mom. she doesn't have to go to work. peter is the one that has to work but is also lazy at home making her cook when he is hungry and clean after he has made a mess. She can clean the house and then have him trash it and not pick it up but have her do it. she has to do all the bring the kids to games and babysitters. You even got little stewy running being a dominate trying to kill lious all the time. he has all these ways to try and take her down. And she never catches on showing stupidity. Half the wife's are shown rarely other then meg and lious. But she makes up for it by being a good mom and always trying to help her kids out when peter messes up.
The marxist lens reveals all the different types of classes and religion. You got a black for one and i guess just other white guys.
On the Freudian side, we got quagmire who is a sexual freak. with one switch in his house everything flips and turns to become a romans house. there is a strobe that drops down a bar that comes out to get her drunk. He is always with another girl doing anything to get with a new one. He has an addiction with lious and meg. Peter is always making sexual references. Even stewy walks in on them doing it. Even brian the dog tries to get action and has to ask stewy how to get with her and keep her. but quagmire gets to her first and gets her to cheat on him and she tells him she doesn't want to wait. and quagmire takes cleveland wife.
The exhibit that I am going to analyze is “The Crazies”.
Marxist Lens
Throughout the movie, power plays a big role in the survival of David, the chief police officer, Judy, David’s pregnant wife, and Russel, David’s close friend and colleague. Whoever has the power makes the decisions and the rest follow. This movie can be compared to the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, in different ways. Whoever had the power in LOF had the authority to make orders and stay in charge. Also, all of the survivors from the crash eventually go crazy and do anything to stay alive. This is true is true in “The Crazies” as well. David is the one in charge at the beginning when an epidemic hits the town and make people go insane and try to kill anything and everything in their path. Russel eventually gets the sickness and it begins to control him. He demands to be in charge or else he would shoot both David and his wife Judy on the spot. David wisely gives up his power in order to keep him and his wife alive. The U.S. government also has the power throughout this movie. They appear in and out of a couple scenes in an all black SUV and troops come and go destroying anything that they think is infected. David, Judy and Russel aren’t given any information about why they are there or what is going on until Russel intervenes in one scene to force the information from a driver of the mysterious SUV’s. The government does everything they can to keep the public uninformed and keep all of this on the down low.
Feminist Lens
Judy’s job in the movie is a nurse. Nurses usually get the stereotype of being a female. Male nurses are rare to find, which makes this job a “girly” one. Through a Feminist Lens, her job is to take care of people in need and be there to support them. There aren’t too many women in this movie but the ones that are play a big role for Feminists. A neighbor of Judy and David’s named Becca is a high school student with a boyfriend. When this boyfriend needs help, she asks Judy, David, and Russel if they can help. David says they do not have enough time to save him but Judy steps in and says you did the same for me. (Judy was proclaimed as infected, even though she wasn’t, and put into a room and was tied down but David did not want to leave her behind so he went back and saved her). Judy cared for others and wanted to help out. Judy is also pregnant when all of this chaos is going on. This portrays her as strong and independent. Even though she was pregnant, she still pushed on and did what she could to try and survive. Judy is portrayed as a loving wife and mother also.
Freudian Lens
This movie is a classic example of the id and superego theory. Throughout the movie, decisions have to be made to stay alive. If the wrong decision is made, Judy, David, and Russel could easily die. David is the ego in this movie. Judy is his superego while Russel is the id. Russel is out for adventure, excitement, and revenge when necessary. Judy has a more conservative and sensible approach. Russel becomes infected during the film and his actions become more radical. At one point he holds David and Judy at gunpoint in order to expose his “domination” of the situation. The unconscious id part of the mind could be looked at as being the “infected”. Just like Russel becomes infected. As time goes on, Russel turns himself into the government as a distraction for Judy and David to sneak past to reach safety and Russel is shot and killed. The government, or higher power, could potentially kill the id in people by imprisoning them or simply killing them. The rest of the movie is just David and Judy, the superego and the ego. This can be related to “Lord of the Flies” because of the id, Ralph, and the superego, Piggy. Jack is the ego. Judy expresses narcissistic bliss in the movie in a scene where she tells David how she’s dreamed of raising a family in a happy home in a happy town. This can’t happen though because of the epidemic that has hit the small town in Iowa that they live in.
Megan Short
pd 3
I am choosing to analyze the movie theater since I just got back from Century Movie Theater. Through a marxist lens, the movie theater is a place where only the wealthy can go. People from the upper class can spend money on entertainment and over priced popcorn. While those who are not as fortunate can not see the newist flick. The prices at the theater are very ridiculous. $8.50 for a movie ticket is a pretty outragious price for a couple hours of entertainment yet, many of us choose to spend the 8.50 to see the movie now instead of waiting a few months until it is out on dvd which can be watched for a cheaper price. The food there is also very expensive, which is the reason I bring in my own food. Since the theater caters to wealthier people they know that if they price their food high people will still buy it since they have the money and they need to be eating during a movie. Through a freudian lens the movie theater is kind of like a dream. It is an excape from our reality. It lets us forget about our caotic lives and just be entertained. You can also analyze the movie posters in the building. Using a feminist lens you will notice that certain movies are geared toward women and others are geared toward men. The romantic movie posters try to grab women's attention with a hot guy and a catchy title with love in it. Movies that want to get guys to go see them use a hot girl with explosions and cars.
The television show I chose for my exibit is Will and Grace. This show portrays a variety of aspects that fit under all the lens categories. For example, using the femenist lens, due to the fact that all the main characters are either women or gay men. You see the femie side of Jack and Will at times, and also the femenine views from Karen and Grace. These four spucky, outgoing, hilarious actors and actresses make this show entertaining. If it were my way, the show would be called Jack and Karen. In the show, Grace is always being picked on my the others for her hair and outrageous outfits. Females appearance in most cases is important, so this cast is awesome at pointing that out and making jokes out of it. Grace is the hardworking woman who can never land a good solid relationship. Many women can relate to her and the things she encounters and goes through throughout the episodes. Karen, on the other hand, is strong-willed, blunt, rude, and has a big ego. She is not afraid to tell it how it is, and for some women they find themselves being envious of Karens lifestyle and character. Karen cracks me up, she is the type of model I find interesting and amusing the most. Jack is very flamboyant and gay, he is not afraid to show it. I love that about Jack and in that sense women wish they had a Jack in their life, I know I do. Will also brings out the fem side of him, but in less open with it than Jack by far. Will is an amazing friend to Grace almost like one of the "girls". Grace depends on Will alot from tips on hair and clothes to financial business to support in general. Using a Fruedian lens, Karen definately comes into play here. She is very open with her sexuallity and is not opposed to hiding it. She is always making funny remarks and gestures to Grace about her sex life and what not. Jack as well, which is why him and Karen make such a great team. He is open with his sexuallity and plays off Karens jokes. I also find it amusing the outfits Grace chooses sometimes, because they are most of the time revealing and it is amusing because she doesn't have much to flaunt. Using a Marxist lens, Karen basically gets everything handed to her, she is married into wealth and her husband spoils her to no end. Grace is a designer for Grace Adler Designs and makes a living from that. Her and Will share an apartment together across the hall from Jack. They are middle class, which suits their characters in New York. Will works at the autorney's office as a lawyer. Jack is always bouncing from one "dream" to the next and exploring different job opportunities, which in most cases Will either pays for him or helps him out a little. Jack is a very dependable person, especially for money from Will and Karen. All in all, this show gives many examples of the different lenses discussed in class.
For my exhibit I chose is TV ads, and I will look at them through a feminist, and Freudian lens. Some TV ads use women to advertise sex. Like in the Axe, and Tag body spray commercials, that practically says if you use this product, you will get the girls, and they will do what ever you want them to do for you. They also have a ton of sexual references that are used and can be, and are offensive to others. I viewed a axe commercial that was talking bout-washing balls (Sport balls). This particular ad opens with two very sexy and attractive girls promoting the axe product and how well it cleans and lathers. This commercial has a very strong sexual overtone and is very degrading to women. It uses, and depicts women to sexual objects, or toys only good enough for pleasing men sexually. Society as a whole needs to start treating women with respect, and to not see them only as an object to sell their particular product. This also sends a bad message to younger children, subconsciously, that women are brainless, sexy, and seductive which equals pleasure to men, and prophet to the company that is selling a product of any sort. We need to try to erase the negative connotations, which unfortunately are so accepted and viewed by society as “the norm”. We need to start promoting women and building them up. I myself have learned a lot from women in my life, such as mom, aunts, and grandmas. At times I wonder if the men and people in society, that choose to degrade women as these commercials do, if they are really feeling threatened by the power that women have, and are afraid they don’t equal to the same caliber as women. I wonder how (they) can have such closed minds, and not see women for all they are and for all they have to offer. It’s obvious of course that we are pleasure seekers, and sexual beings by nature. How ever, I strongly believe that there is a proper time and place for sexual context, but commercials should not be the place to do so. Its hard to believe how large the “Sexual” market is and how bombarded we are as viewers. Its so popular in TV ads, the message is now even being spread to gum combines, as a commercial for condoms, again using women for men’s pleasures, and company prophets. I believe women should seen as a treasure, rather than a commodity.
I chose the toys as a child for my Exhibit. I thinking toys that a child has at a young age, has a huge impact on a person’s, or child’s life. Analyzing with the lenses will help understand the significance of having toys as a child. In a Marxist lens would be that middle class or upper class “spoil” their kids with toys. But is it really spoiling them, or educating them. Being able to play with toys as a child, is important. But don’t separate boys and girls toys, let them choose. And children need both, girls need to be able to experiment with boy toys, as its labeled, trucks, army guys, cars, ect. Boys need to experiment with girl toys labeled as dolls, babies, babies, playing house (kitchen accessories) and more. Girls need to have a tougher side and learn to stick up for themselves and be able to do and play with boy toys too. Boys need to learn to have a nurturing side, and a sentimental caring side, instead of always tough and don’t have emotional sides. To have all of these necessities normally they are upper class and middle classes could be able to afford them for their children to have the correct way of growing and learning the different aspects of life. For Freudian and feminist lenses are typically along the same lines. They both revolve around the word, Barbie. For the Freudian lens it is showing the male and female genders of little children of what women are expected to look like, as children they are already learning about the cruelty of society that they will have to grow up and live in. in human instinct we always thing about sex and everything revolves around it, and by having the Barbie’s miss portioned body, is an example of how people miss interpret that women is more lovable, and sexual if they look like this, and as people get older, the more they believe that, and follow it. Feminist lens is exactly the same when it comes to toys. For both Marxist and Freudian, it shouldn’t be a split boy and girl toys. Children’s toys or something along that lines that doesn’t separate the genders. They should also make Barbie’s more average, and different ways to show that it’s okay to look different and be able to be themselves but instead of pretending to be something that they are not and changing their bodies to match the stereotypical views of women, the Barbie doll.
Looking at the restaraunt I work at one can come to the conclusion, using the feminest lens, that managment hires more women to be Waitresses and a majority of men to fill the other roles. A person can look at this many different ways. One way is that women have better people skills than men, generally. Women can get into a conversation with ease while men have more difficulty. Another way to look at this is; Men pay the bills and they are liklier to tip more if they enjoyed their evening more, so management have females wait upon them so that they are more likely to tip heavier.
One could also look at a restaurant using a marxist lens. Upper management does a minimal amount of work, while the lowly of the low does much more. Why do they do less work and get away with it? Easy, they pay your wages.
Using a Fruedien lens is also applicable. People come to fancy restaurants so that they can feel superior. Guys bring their girls there so they don't have to do as much work to satisfy the girls romantic wants. All people hope that they can become successful, and being sucsesful usually entails eating good. So if they are eating at a fancy restaurant then part of their aspirations are met, simply and easily.
I have chosen that song “Catch me” by Demi Lovato. This song is interesting if the fact that she wants to forget about someone but still is trapped. “Before I fall too fast Kiss me quick, but make it last So I can see how badly this will hurt me When you say goodbye”. This is the first stanza of the song. This is my favorite part of the whole song because it is like most relationships. You want something so amazing but when you have to part you do not want it to be so hard. By saying “kiss me quick, but make it last” one can come to a conclusion that this person is very important. Also by saying this we can see a Marxist lens because she is greedy for a kiss but yet demanding in the same way to show a Feminist lens. Next is “Keep it sweet, keep it slow Let the future pass, and don't let go But tonight I could fall too soon Into this beautiful moonlight”. In these phrases one can see that she is telling to live in the present and by doing that one will enjoy life better. Even though sometimes you can get wrapped up into the “now” you can breathe and absorb everything up. Then the chorus goes “But you're so hypnotizing You've got me laughing while I sing, you've got me smiling in my sleep And I can see this unraveling
Your love is where I'm falling, but please don't catch me”. By being in love problem always come about. This is what she is telling the listener. That by being in love and under a spell it can always come to an end. “Your love is where I’m falling, but please don’t catch me” is very interesting because through a Freudian lens love is everything and you want to fight for it but in then end it crumbles. After this is “See this heart won't settle down Like a child running scared from a clown I'm terrified of what you do My stomach screams just when I look at you”. Using a simile helps for the fact that listeners can learn the words better also gives one the imagination of how the heart beats when she looks at the one she “loves”. “Run far away so I can breathe Even though you're far from suffocating me I can't set my hopes too high 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye” I love this as well because I notice how much she loves this person yet knows its not going to work out. I think this is important because little girls listen to her music and this reaches out to them saying that love is hard to find; you have to keep on trying until you find the “one”. Next is “So now you see why I'm scared I can't open up my heart without a care But here I go, it's what I feel And for the first time in my life I know it's for real”. This goes back to trying out love even if you get hurt. Last two phrases are “If this is love, please don't break me I'm giving up so just catch me”. This is at the end because if one is truly in love you do not need to try it will just come naturally. Through out this song it says “please don’t catch me” until the end it says “just catch me”; I think this is interesting because she says that she does not need this person to catch her; that she will not give in to love but at the end she does. I feel this shows that love is possible even when you are young.
I chose the toys as a child for my Exhibit. I thinking toys that a child has at a young age, has a huge impact on a person’s, or child’s life. Analyzing with the lenses will help understand the significance of having toys as a child. In a Marxist lens would be that middle class or upper class “spoil” their kids with toys. But is it really spoiling them, or educating them. Being able to play with toys as a child, is important. But don’t separate boys and girls toys, let them choose. And children need both, girls need to be able to experiment with boy toys, as its labeled, trucks, army guys, cars, ect. Boys need to experiment with girl toys labeled as dolls, babies, babies, playing house (kitchen accessories) and more. Girls need to have a tougher side and learn to stick up for themselves and be able to do and play with boy toys too. Boys need to learn to have a nurturing side, and a sentimental caring side, instead of always tough and don’t have emotional sides. To have all of these necessities normally they are upper class and middle classes could be able to afford them for their children to have the correct way of growing and learning the different aspects of life. For Freudian and feminist lenses are typically along the same lines. They both revolve around the word, Barbie. For the Freudian lens it is showing the male and female genders of little children of what women are expected to look like, as children they are already learning about the cruelty of society that they will have to grow up and live in. in human instinct we always thing about sex and everything revolves around it, and by having the Barbie’s miss portioned body, is an example of how people miss interpret that women is more lovable, and sexual if they look like this, and as people get older, the more they believe that, and follow it. Feminist lens is exactly the same when it comes to toys. For both Marxist and Freudian, it shouldn’t be a split boy and girl toys. Children’s toys or something along that lines that doesn’t separate the genders. They should also make Barbie’s more average, and different ways to show that it’s okay to look different and be able to be themselves but instead of pretending to be something that they are not and changing their bodies to match the stereotypical views of women, the Barbie doll.
I chose to analyze a show I have currently discovered, and have never seen until recently which is "Friends." Every character has their own specific personality. Monica, who owns one of the main apartments where the show is shot most of the time, is very controllnig. She is beautiful and is trying to find a man at this point in her life. (I see this through a feminish lens because she wants to be dependent on a man). Her brother, Ross, recently had his wife leave him for another woman even though she was carrying his baby. This leaves him with depression and self doubt and consciousness. (You can look at this through a feminist lens or a marxist lens). Rachel is beautiful, fun, and spoiled. Her father pays for everything that she has and she struggles even to make it as a waitress. (Feminist lens. Portrays beautiful women as dumb and spoiled). Chandler is very funny and does not respect women like he should.(He can be looked at throught a Marxist lens. It seems as though he is on a power trip and tries to use his humor to cover his lack of sensitivity and wanting to find a good woman.) Phebe is hippie like, and she is not very bright. She brings a lot of humor to the show. (A feminist lens is best used for Phebe. Although she is not the brightest she fights for women's and animal's rights throughout the show.) Joey is the last male. He is very good looking and is aspiring to be a model. He thinks fairly high of himself. (The Freudian lens can be used. His ego has taken over himself.) The show is based on the friends life together. Every morning they go to the same coffee shop and talk about the problems they are facing in everyday life. These problems range from Marxist lens problems such as struggling with money and power. There is social tensions and influence. There are sexual and relationship issues, which come into play a lot. Sex is brought up a lot which can be seen through a Freudian lens. There is actually an episode about Chandler's mother where he talks about the Freudian lens, because his mother struggles with coming on to all sorts of men across the country and is known for her sexual encounters. From the feminist lens, the women in this show usually stick up for themselves when they are insulted by the guys and different episodes portray the different things that the women do together that bash men and what men have done to break their hearts. "Friends" is a classic sitcom that had many seasons, and I see why. The themes are intruguing and the humor is able to reach many ages. Getting to know the charachters on a personal level helps you connect to the show, and seeing what lens they look through helps you analyze why the show does what it does.
Laura Hieb
I chose to examine Sarah Palin for my exhibit. The most important thing that you can view her through is a feminist lens. At first glance you see Sarah Palin as just another female republican. But there is more to her than meets the eye (not a transformers cliche). You see a strong self assertive woman who is not afraid to make herself equal to men. She is the ideal role model for women all over America. She is passionate about what she does. She is strong minded and wants to stand up for women's rights. You also see that she is not afraid to take garbage from anyone. She will stand up for what she believes in, instead of caving to what other people say. She was a former governor of Alaska which shows she has strong character and leadership skills. She also was a former Vice President nominee. I believe she is the first woman vice president nominee in American history which shows great strides for women's rights. As governor she helped the state of Alaska reach its peak potential and make the money it needed to survive. Another thing you notice about Sarah Palin is that when people started harassing her for no reason, she didn't back down but instead stood up for herself and fought back with a fiery passion. She was attacked about her family mostly which was an extremely low blow, but she picked herself back up and brushed off the criticism, and instead decided to do something about it. This is a great thing for a woman to do instead o
f being a submissive slave as they are perceived in the present time. You also see that she is a great mother. She raises a healthy family and like a true mother will defend them from whatever tries to attack them. Sarah Palin has a son with down syndrome and knew about it at an early stage. Instead of aborting this child she chose to keep it even though it had a disorder. This shows that as a strong woman she will try to persevere through any challenges and stand by her morales. Between balancing a hard and challenging career and keeping a solid family together, Sarah Palin has truely shown the world what a true woman she is and how with a feminist lens we can see that there is still hope for women if they just choose to look up to Sarah Palin.
The Exhibit i chose to disect was the Home page of MAXIM.com. For my disection i use mostly the fruedian and feminist lens. upon opening the Maxim website you see the words hot girls and Sexy photos. For men, the targets for this particular magizine, these phrases not only catch attention but also raise pulses and much curiosity. after the men see this they want to search through the website for these Girls and Photos. they don't have to look far however because there is a scroll bar that allows the men to go straight to the pictures. after they get there fix of hot girls, the men can have the option of going through this rest of the site. you see accrossed the top a thin bar in a somewhat phalic shape displays the different sections of the website for people to use. the 9 sections are separated in order of what almost seems most important to least. it goes from Subscribe, to gaming, girls, humor, movies, music, sports, stuff, tv, and videos. scrolling down you see the newest features going from hot girls and ninjas and the supposedly worst places to be hungover. these are also key things that many men are thought to be interested in. and are interested in. sadly. much of this website is devoted to objectifying women and only making men think even less of women. and only holding society back from the progress of equal rights for both sexes. while this site and magazine can be interesting it is overall horrible for the general public to view.
The exhibit I chose to analyze is “Where the Green Grass Grows” by Tim McGraw. Tim McGraw is a country artist and actor from such movies as The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights. This song was released on the album titled Everywhere in 1997. In this song, he compares a rushed, cheap, depressing city life to the peaceful, easy-going, loving life in the country. The song starts off with the “Six lanes tail lights” which is later contrasted to corn popping up in rows, a much more relaxing and slow change from the rush of the city. A few lines later he says “Another supper from a sack, ninety nine cent heart attack”, saying how city life is meant to be fast paced, cheap and easy to keep society moving ahead when at the same time he could be sitting on the porch of an acreage, relaxing, watching corn grow and be doing just as much for society as the city dweller. Also, he is somewhat better off in the country, away from pollution and high fat foods that could cause him health problems in the city. When he was younger, he wanted to leave the boring country life behind and make a new start in the city. This is evident in this line “I caught the first bus I could hop from there”, but now it is not as great as he presumed it to be and wants to go back. Now he’s hopping a bus back home, where the green grass grows once he notices that the only thing growing in the city is more and more masses of concrete. The last few lines of the song that are not part of the chorus are the most influential in making him want to move back to the heartland. They are as follows “I don’t know who my neighbors are, and there’s bars on the corner and bars on my heart.” I am not sure how many people would feel safe in the city, raising kids, when they do not know their neighbors and on every corner there are rowdy establishments full of drunken men and women. Also, with the bars on the corners, it does not necessarily mean that they are pubs and such; it could also be bars on the windows, blocking one from escaping entrapment in the city like his heart being trapped in the depression of city life. Either way, Tim makes a strong case that country living is not only better for your health and self-being, but for your safety as well.
http://www.lyrics.com/where-the-green-grass-grows-lyrics-tim-mcgraw.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McGraw#Everywhere
The exhibit I chose to analyze is a movie called ‘The Proposal’, starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. I am going to analyze this film starting with a feminist lens. The Sandra Bullock’s character Margaret is the boss in a big time NY editor company. Andrew, Ryan Reynolds character, is her assistant. Andrew will do anything for her just so he can be the co-editor with her. He even will go out and buy tampons for her in the middle of the night. This makes men look like they will do anything to get a successful career. This also can make women look more successful than men, and more dominant. Margaret is in control and in power at first. The roles will kind of start to switch once she finds out she must be deported and she makes up a story about how she is engaged to her assistant, Andrew. This movie also shows the image to girls how they will always find their love in the end of any story. This story can be predictable as well as give the wrong image to women.
I can also see this movie with a Marxist lens. Andrew’s family is very rich; they own many stores in the town they live in, which is in Alaska. This shows how powerful his family is of that town. This can also show how high is family is on the social ladder. Andrew and his father do not agree with many things. A Marxist critic could look at this by saying the wealthy are not as happy as the non wealthy.
The Freudian lens can also be used in studying this work of art. The director of this movie chose for Ryan Reynolds to be completely naked in a scene to draw to females’ attention. The director must know how the females’ libido works, because he is a work of art himself. This story line also goes along with the Oedipus story. Andrew and his father do not get along; they fight about very little things. Andrew subconsciously wants to get rid of his father and keep his mother for himself because his mother loves him and is proud of him no matter what he plans to do in his life.
For my blog i am going to excavate one of the most famous characters in american history. The man with the golden gun: James Bond! For countless years this sexy, stunning, smart, selfless hero has been saving the world from evil dictators and terrorist plots. Before we get any deeper, let us examine they typical bond formula. Bond recieves his mission, he enters a casino/hotel where he meets a breathtaking woman (this woman is somehow connected to the evil dictator), bond will then sleep with the beautiful woman, drink his vodka, shaken not stirred, and meet with the villian face to face, gluttony and pride will always be the villians downfall, and then bond will save the day at the last possible moment, save the girl, and order another martini. This story is repeated over and over in different situations and circumstances that reflect the social and political standing of the world at the time the movie is made.For example, during the cold war many bond films were made that were about nuclear weapons and russians. This formula has also been used and satired in countless films (i.e. austin powers). Any feminist critic would be outraged by bond films. The women in these films are nothing but tools for manuevering your way into a room and sex toys. They are beautiful, dependent, and trashy. Though money penny is an interesting woman character. She is decent, smart, and actually in charge of bond. So bond uses women for pleasure and information, but a woman uses him for his skill and charisma. Though in the most recent bond films this role has been reversed. Bond has been tricked, used, taken advantage of. This is a perfect example of how bond films reflect and change to the times they are made in. Women now have more respect and power, and you can see it in the plot line. From a marxist lense, we know litle about bond's past, but he does live in extremem luxury, when he is not being shot at. He serves the system very well, and he is rewarded. You could not say the same about the villians. The villians are often crippled some way physically, reflecting there emotional criplement. Many villians have been abondoned by there system, had some sort of wrongdoing done to them that fills them with rage and contempt for the human race. Though the villians are almost always extremely wealthy, showing that money certainly does not buy happiness, in fact sometimes the path to cash can cost you your soul and sanity. I also have another theory about bond. He is not extremely intelligent, though he is not stupid. But he is handsome and extremely charismatic, the villians on the other hand are extroadinarally smart, yet they are ugly and not as classy as their nemesis bond. I think our society often times connect good looks and charm with intelligence, just look at some of politicians, maybe if the villians were handsome and charming, they would not be filled with rage, but rewarded by the system. Bond is known for drinking and adultery, yet we idolize him because of his charm and smiling face. That sounds like a sneaky politician to me. I have been a fan of the bond series since my parents deemed i was old enough to watch them, and maybe a litle bit before that too. I truly believe that we can learn a lot about our past and current social views by watching and comparing the epic tales of none other than..........007!!!!!! p.s. I killed you twice!!WROOOOOOO
Dan Nelson
period number 6
One exibit that i decided to analyze was the tv show Family Guy. You can examine the show family guy with a feminist lens in many different ways. The show does and says many different things that are sexist to make people laugh. It can also be looked at in a kind of marxist lens as well. The way that it can be looked at with a feminist lens is that louis is always being bossed around by the men in the tv show. Men always seem to somehow do better than the women in Family guy but then they end up resolving the problem at the end of the episode. Another way a Feminist lens can be used is with the character meg that plays show. Her brother Chris always gets the good part of deals and nothing bad really happens to Chris at all, but because she is a girl, peter is always hassling her and angry that meg is a woman. Basically the women in this tv show are always being pushed around and are always the steriotypical women, they do "womanly" jobs like cook stay home to take care of the kids, etc. BUT Family Guy can be looked at in a Marxist lens as well because it shows the griffens as a middle class family, and it is shown that they have a "normal" family, and all of the richer families have little accents and it is very steriotypical the way they have the families and characters set up.
Ashley Mork
The exhibit I chose was the TV show Will and Grace. It is by far my favorite show on TV. In this show Will, who is gay, lives with Grace. They have two friends Jack, who is also gay, and Karen. Will and Grace are best friends and Jack and Karen are best friends and they are all friends with eachother. Jack and Karen are not the smartest people in the world and come up with some pretty random things. Through a marxist lens we look at Karen as being very upper class. She is always talking about her husband Stan but we never see him. She lives in a huge mansion and has a bunch of maids. Will is a lawyer but doesn't really make that much money because he lives in an apartment with Grace. Jack is an average guy in the show. Through a feminist lens we look at how all of the characters are femi. Jack and Will are both gay. Although Will doesn't "act" as gay as Jack, you can definitely tell he is gay. Then there is Karen who is very bossy and bitchy. She stands up for herself and knows what she wants and is not satisfied until she gets it. Grace is the typical stereotype. She is moody and emotional and if things aren't perfect the whole world is going to crumble. Through out the series they all go though many relationships also. We see all of these basically from a "girl's" point of view with Jack and Will being gay. Through a Feudian lens we can look at all the "dirty" jokes the characters make. Especially Karen and Jack. They are always taking things the wrong way and flipping things to make them dirty. Grace also makes things funny and dirty sometimes without even thinking about it. When I watch the show I don't even have to think about what they are saying and I get their jokes. People's minds these days are trained to catch those things without even thinking about it. TV shows know that and are finding tricky little ways to make the simplest things dirty just to get a laugh out of people. The dirty stuff is what people think is funny these days and by making people laugh and enjoy the TV show the more people will watch it because it will be talked about and get more attention.
For my exhibit I chose the Harry Potter novel series. Throughout this series, through a feminist lense, women are used and objectified. Every woman in each of the books are belittled and don’t get the respect they deserve. For example, Hermione is constantly figuring out the puzzles the trio is faced with and every time Harry takes credit for her success. When Hermione figures out who Nicholas Flamel is, which leads them to the conclusion that Fluffy is guarding the Sorcerer’s Stone. Without her book smarts and her quick thinking, Harry and Ron would have died in the 1st book! Also, whenever Harry or Ron can’t do, or choose not to do, their homework, they just make Hermione do it for them. Again, without her, both Harry and Ron would have never graduated Hogwarts. In the 4th book, there is a Yule Ball, where everyone dances elegantly and they have to ask a date to said dance. Ron and Harry both wait last minute to get dates, Ron because he expects Hermione to go with him, without ever even asking her, and Harry because he isn’t determined enough to go for Cho Chang. Another way the book objectifies women, Ron just assumes Hermione can’t get a date and would just love to go with Ron, like he is the epitome of awesome, conceded, just like the male stereotype. Also, the book uses stereotypes abundantly to give descriptions of characters. Many of the males think they are God’s gift to women and many of the women are quite and book smart. There are a few exceptions to these, such as Cedric Diggory, who is both smart, quite, and very modest, which isn’t common traits in males, but, he is suppose to be better than Harry in every way, so Cho will like Cedric more than Harry, thus, causing conflict and a love triangle, which is essential in every kids book. Even the female teachers and other women in power are portrayed as mean, deceiving, conniving, and evil. Through a Marxist lense, there is also a social order between the Purebloods and Mudbloods. The Purebloods are considered the “rich” and the Mudbloods are considered “poor” but without the money. The Purebloods look down upon the Mudbloods as if they are less of wizards, just is they don’t have 100% wizard blood in them. Overall, these books are just like normal life, men are in power and women are used for their intelligence without any recognition. This all sounds very familiar…
Danny Sellers
For my exhibit I decided to choose the television show Family Guy. A lot if not most of this television series can be seen completely through the feminist lens. For example the main character Peter is the "working man" in the show and his wife Lois is a stay at home mom who does nothing but cook, clean, and have sex. This is completely stereotypical to be shown to the audience. The maker of Family Guy realized this but also noticed how much funnier it is to have the family set up like this. Although sometimes Lois tries to do more than what she is supossed to do. Once Peter notices he automatically takes offense to it and tries to take charge and bring Lois back down to what she should be stereotypically doing. At the end of the episode you would think that she would be angry and stand up for herself but the hilarity of her not standing up for herself and forgiving is way funnier to the eyes of the audience, although in real life something like that would never happen. Typically in a Marxist lense you would notice in Family Guy that they are a middle class family, they own a decent size house, have nice things but not too expensive and can only afford a few extra appliances and wants. Lois's parents are filthy rich and can literally do what ever they want without consequence. If Peter's family did this, they would be in a lot of trouble. Now seeing this through the Marxist lense clearly shows that basically if you are not rich, you are not at all sophisticated and basically are not real people. The middle class family (Peter's) they treat everyone equally and even try hard to get respect from the wealthy even though the know in the end they will not get any. Money equals happiness, solitude, and can blind one of reality and what they really want. Lois's parents do not even love each other, but with all of their money it does not matter for they can just buy whatever they want to make them feel happy for an extended amount of time. The middle class get a more real sense of love and want because they earned it to where they still have to save up to get things. Bascially they have goals to achieve and that strides them to end up doing better than the rich. So lots of money equals power and short strides of clouded happiness, and just a bit more than enough money equals pure, true happiness.
Danny Sellers
The exhibit I chose to analyze is the “Shrine Circus” because I just went there this past weekend. The circus has many varieties of people and all ages are welcome. This could be because the circus attracts everyone on purpose, dancing for little girls, animals and dangerous stuff for the guys. You even see stoners there just because of all the flashing lights and techno music. Everyone goes to the circus. From a feminist lens you can see that the women at the circus were used for one thing, getting guys attention. Women dancing half naked, as you can see you don’t see an over weight women out there. You have to be beautiful to be out there. They also did sexual poses on drapes, or flung of a swing with a guy who has no shirt on. If you think about the circus this way its almost surprising how parents let there little children go into this place, even if it is really meant for the little ones. Men on the other hand did dangerous stuff such as taming a lion. Yes lions are very dangerous but those ones looked like they couldn’t even hurt a fly. He also had little clothes on and was buff. Every child wants to be like these guys because they are so manly. They think these guys are the king of the jungle. To some this up I think the circus should try to make this more appropriate for the littler kids, what are they trying to teach us. Also women can be in the circus but not just intertaining, they could be out there taming the lions as well. The circus is absolutely brilliant and if you truly wanted to its possible to write pages on pages just about the circus.
Shad Smith
The Exhibit I chose would be my work, I work at Perkins on North Cliff and have noticed alot of the feminest lense very bluntly. Alot of the jobs here, there are mostly guys or mostly girls working certain jobs, for example servers here there is one guy and the rest of the 30 are girls; which also may be for other certain reasons but for everything to amount to there all girls, and for cooks, all guys, even the bussers are all guys, it plays a big role in the restaurant business, even though managment says its not.
By using the Marxist lense, management is supposed to do alot of work and run the restaruant smoothly but a coupe of managers that I work with, I do more then them, and Im making $2.60 an hour, yeah with tips but during the weekday, there making wayyy more than us and we do do alot more than them, they seat, take cash while we get drinks, take orders, put in orders, bring the food out, take the dish's off, then when the customer leaves we buss the table, and where I work, sometimes the manager doesnt even seat or take cash and Im stuck doing it! while sitting here getting paid bearly any. With using that lense it would be looking at a manager of a store or restaurant and knowing they do alot, but not actually doing that much, just because they have the "manager" title.
In this situation you could use the Fruedien lense but it could go both ways, alot of people go out to eat, which entitles they have money, or wants the satififaction of being able to go out to a nice restaurant and eat, and not have to do much, especially or the guys that there sweet and they have money when lets say the guy takes them out on a date. Money revolves around everything, some people wont date if you dont have a job or dont have money, when you are with a guy that has money if doesnt necisessary make the girl feel good but it gives them the satisfaction that she wont have to pay all the time. It almost makes you seem "cool" if you have money, but looking at it from the other way, people go out to eat and have to scrunge around for money, so its not just if you go out to eat, your "rich" or economically fit.
Katie Carlson Pd-6
B. Olson period 5
My exhibit is the church. It seems as if church to me through a critical lens is a social status competition. You get all your rich families who show up every Sunday dressed in top notch exspensive clothing looking of their social class. Where as people who come in jeans or just do not go the shirt and tie look get stared at and are critized behind their backs. Does not God care what you look like but cares about you being present? Church over the years has always been about showing up every sunday and dressing nice and it seems people are still though carrying the tradition but its sad that as soon as there is more people then the social status and the social latter appears. Not donating money to the basket can leave the impression that you are a cheap person or that you do not give. But what if simply we cannot afford it. Its easy for a rich man who golfs on the weekend and has money to blow. Social status has become ingrowth with the church and to me its sad to see something that is suppose to be free and between your eyes and gods eyes turns into how other people are seeing me instead of how god sees me. It also appears that only the people who are making it well in life show where as screw ups give up on god or maybe they are just always critized for their being. Gossip is huge at church believe it or not, i bet theres more gossip in church then in high school sometimes. Everybody has to have their nose in someone elses business i guess. Church equals money plus pecking order. Church may be good for us if we seek god but it is not good for dodging social judgement and i for one hate being stared at church all the time because i go to a catholic church and i wear jeans but i think as long as we show our presents with god are just as christian practicing as the people who dress up.
For my exhibit, I chose the movie What Happens in Vegas. This movie falls under the category of all the lenses we have talked about. For example, we can see through a feminist lens that all women in society should be organized, on top of things, and responsible. Women are expected to take control of the responsibilities in life and make a positive name for themselves in their career, while the men go out have fun and be the money makers. There are variety types of women in the movie. We have the sexual outgoing type, the spunky, don’t mess with me type, and the uptight do everything by the book kind of girl. I love this movie because it shows how much men and women need each other. Jack and Joy are the two main characters. Joy is and uptight, organized, stick with the plan kind of girl; while Jack is a go with the flow, let things fall where they fall kind of guy. Jack needs to get his life together and Joy needs to have more fun. One spontaneous night in Vegas their whole lives will change because they end up getting married and winning the jack pot on a slot machine. This is where a Marxist lens comes in. The two win three million dollars and Joy seems to think the money is hers because it was her quarter while Jack thinks the money is his because he put the quarter in the slot. They go to a lawyer to get an annulment but the judge orders them to counseling to work out their problems. They try to get the other to cheat on him / her in order for that person to end the marriage and all the money will go to the “faithful” one. But by the end of the movie each person grows up and wants to be an adult and make a living for each other and care for one another. Through a Freudian lens, we go back to the beginning. At the beginning of the movie, there is a scene where Jack and his “booty call” just get done having sex. She is in a Girl Scout outfit playing a fantasy all men desire. She asks Jack for a key to his apartment and he chokes up right away. She says she doesn’t want commitment either but she just doesn’t want to be standing outside in her costumes waiting for him to answer the door while everyone stares at her. In the movie she is portraying that it is ok for women to be used like a toy. He doesn’t want to date you; he just wants to have sex. That is how a lot of “relationships” are these days. Sexual tendencies are starting so much earlier these days is ridiculous! But, toward the end of the film Jack and Joy have so much hate for each other that their sexual drive is building and building giving them a closer, irresistible bond. Everything works out in the end. The guy gets the girl (Marxist: how guys are the chaser) and their lives are so much better.
-Madison Rozell pd.3
For my exhibit i am going to analyz the popular television series "the office" affectionately known to me as "the offiv"(inside joke too long to let on).
Ill list the characters:
Kevin Malone is an overweight man whom is portrayed as slow and lethargic.
Oscar Martinez is a homosexual hispanic office worker.
Angela Martin the very prudent, very religious, short, blonde, bitchy, and notoriously in fatuated with pictures of babies dressed as grown ups and cats.
(these people above are in accounting)
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Jim Halpert young funny and relatively funny in his "shennanigans" with his co-salesman dwight shcrute.
Dwight Schrute is the paranoid oddball very strange he is hilarious.
Pam Halpert former receptionist of dunder mifflin she is very modern and witty her and jim are married as you can tell.
Andrew Bernard is the occapela singing annoying suck up of the office.
Stanley Hudson is the office black guy he is very annoyed of michael scott and well everyone around him in the office to tell the tructh.
Phyllis Lapin vance the old lady that smells like pine needles
Management
Karen fillipelli good looking had a little thing with jim
Michael scott last but not least michael scott is everyones dream boss he is creative funny annoying and keeps the funk rollin in the office.
The show the office has potential to be looked at and analyzed through any lense there is out there oh cmon. Im gonna freestyle here if you will. To start off im gonna go through a kind of feminist lens here. If you look at the women in the office (pam, angela and phyllis) you will notice how they are kind of stereotypes in themselves like angela the really bitchy blonde who is really prude and just happens to be a religious fanatic theres nothing wrong with this but you see people like this all the time, phyllis the old lady of the office she is portrayed to be very sensitive and soft spoken you know a lady that would knit in her freetime. Pam is the former receptionist she has a really open personality she is young and smart etc. Just looking at other characters: Andrew bernard is the cornell graduate which he repeats multiple times in many episodes he is the typical cocky college graduate but look at him he is working at dundermifflin paper co. theres not too much to get cocky about there haha. Stanley is the stubborn salesman he is really annoyed of everyone around him and seems to tune out everything around him he is an example of someone who is numbing, he is wasting away his life in an office making not enough money but cant advance in his position and cant find work anywhere else maybe he fears change. Dwight Schrute the weird guy, you know theres dudes like him around everycorner that are just creepers and spazs and he is infatuated with benefiting dunder mifflin and the money seems second to that which is ridiculous because you as a salesman in a small failing paper company shouldnt care so much not to sound like a cynic but come on. Michael scott is the dude who grew up never finding his place to fit in and he is smart but didnt go to college, so he tries to get too personal with his employees and goes to great heights to befriend them which sad to say he does not or well he does somewhat, when michael scott focuses he is a very productive person but his personal issues hinder his work, he seeks companionship and looking for friends never is a good idea you look to hard you will find what you dont want you just have to go with the flow and let it roll you know. The office is easily my favorite show, yes this is probably a sketchy analysis because i just described the show instead of going in deep but im thinking and that is more important than the words you see these blogs are great they make you write and all that stuff but they are key to being thought criminals because well they make you think and go to different povs so even though this blog may be well lackluster for me im thinking and that is by far the most important thing right now!
Lexi Fontana Pd. 6
The exhibit i choose is a song. The "The Magic of Us", by bim. There is also an extraordinary dance duet, choreographed by Kate Jablonski (one of my favorite choreographers!), to this song. I analyzed that piece as well.
Here is the link to the dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOPTk5yW9pU
To start off, this is a love song and is danced by a male and a female. The dance is very complimentary to the lyrics and musicality of the song. The dance, like a relationship, is graceful, passionate, and frustrating. These emotions are not sectioned into segments, but more placed throughout as compared to a true relationship. Relationships have their ups and downs, as showed by this dance and song. There's an exact portion at time: 0:27 the musicality increases like the flow of the movement in the male dancer. The lyrics state, "I pull your heartstrings tighter and play my song as loud as i can," showing this male is passionately in love with this woman and will do anything for her. He compares her heart to a musical instrument and he will play her. Some women might find this offensive as referring to a woman's emotions can be toyed with by any male. But, I don't think that's the message foreseen by the writer or choreographer. I have to say one of my favorite parts of the entire dance is at 2:04. The male puts his hand on top of the female's head. The accents within the music match perfectly with the choreography. The lyrics state, "and i will lift my head above the sky," the choreographer, Kate Jablonski, could of had the two dancers just point to the sky, but instead she gave you an images of brainwaves going from the female's brain to the sky, along with the male's. This is a true example of saying actions speak louder than words. The lyrics are simple yet powerful, and even so the choreography is complicated beyond measure and five hundred times as powerful to me. Lastly, towards the end of the routine, 2:28 exactly, the couple intertwines with each other like the lyrics state once again, and pull apart from one another to form a heart with their bodies, intertwined. This pulls the entire song and dance together. The song says, "with our hearts intertwined with love, the magic of us," using the title as the last words being heard, showing extreme emphasis. In the choreography the dancers form a heart, and then look at each other with passion and gracefulness, like every fantasy relationship should be.
Lyrics from:
http://www.lyricsmania.com/the_magic_of_us_lyrics_bim.html
For my exhibit i chose to analyze the game "Life". This game is very interesting if you look at the idea behind it. It shows you the way you are supposed to live your life and it is also teaching children valuable lessons about life in the real world. For example, This game starts out by you making the decision on if you want to go to college or not. This decision is a big deal because it costs a lot but throughout the game you make way more money by having a college degree. This relates to real life. The next thing you do is choose your career. This is another important decision because this is what your income is based off for the rest of your "life". Another important lesson this game gives you is the lesson of random costs in life. This game teaches you to save instead of buying anything that seems entertaining. In this game if you decide to buy to fancy of a house you have little to no money. Then you might end up landing on a space stating "crashed the car Pay 20,000" and you might have just spent all your money on a house. This is true in real life to because many people in modern society spend above their means and then get hit with an unexpected cost and now don't know what to do. This game also teaches the importance of insurance. You can by car and home and medical insurgence and throughout the game you have medical car or home costs that are avoided if you bought the insurance. This is similar to real life because you can choose to not have insurance but it is a risky choice because you might end up spending way more money than if you had just paid the 250 dollars a month to the insurance company. I think this game is a wonderful teaching tool and also shows kids and adults alike how to handle money better and how to be ready for life's unexpected obsticals.
I am sitting here and watching South Park on Comedy Central. Autumn kindly reminded me that I have yet to do this blog and suggested that I should analyze South Park. Through a Marxist and a Feminist lens you can analyze the relationship between Cartman and his mother. First Cartman wears the pants, he is the powerful one in the family so through a Marxist lens Cartman is a Bourgeoisie and his mother is a proletariat within their house. You could also say that Cartman’s mother is weak, because as the mother she has no control over her own son and can’t even control herself because in previous episodes she is referred to many times as being a whore. The show can easily be analyzed be a Freudian lens. The entire show revolves around sexist, sexual, vulgar jokes. For example: “Does the Pope help pedophiles get away with touching kids?” Another example is how one of the plots of this episode is how Colorado is legalizing the use of medicinal marijuana. Ironically KFC is closing down because Colorado is making it illegal. Stan’s dad, Randy, finds out about the medicinal marijuana and he wants to buy some. But when he goes in he finds out that it’s only used for people who are recovering from cancer or something so he gives himself testicular cancer by microwaving his balls. He gets a doctor’s note saying that he can use marijuana at the expense that his balls grow to be 100x the size of normal testes. His balls grow so massive that he can’t walk with them, so he puts them into a wheel barrel and carries them that way. The wheel barrel breaks and he finds out that you can use his cancerous testicles like a bouncy bounce and then gets around that way. He realizes that women love his huge balls further giving him more power over them because he has what they want (Feminist lens). He convince his friends to do the same to themselves so that they can all smoke the reefer, and a doctor notices that testicular cancer is increasing since KFC has left Colorado. Randy’s balls grow so large that he can no longer fit through the door to the medicinal marijuana distributer and he and his large testicled friends go on strike because they can’t get what they want. It ends up that Randy gets prostatic testicles, marijuana is illegalized again, and KFC is ironically brought back for it’s “healthy food” which obviously was the reason behind the increase in testicular cancer. The entire show is a huge sex joke which may be indeed immature but at the same time funnier than a kid snow sledding into a fence.
My exhibit I chose to do was Facebook. I think Facebook is a really funny website. Teenagers and adults both get really excited about this website. People have it attached to their iPods, cellphones, laptop backgrounds, or they just check it six seven times a day. Why would they do this, its because just like in society people are addicted to other peoples gossip. When you get on facebook you sign on and can see everybodys status or what they are up too, you can see who is broken up, who is fighting, who got busted. Why should we care about what these other people are doing, its just part of our ‘human’ nature. I looked around Facebook a while, because its something as a teenager I do, but to look to see what patterns appear. I noticed that girls are more likely to have a picture with their ‘significant others’ and guys are more likely to either 1) a cartoon, or a picture of a sports team or 2) a sport like picture. Girls were more likely to check their facebook then men, probably because women are very caddy. We like to look at each other and compare them to use. We like to see what we should be like,or what the norm is telling us to be like. Don’t get me wrong there are some positive aspects to Facebook like keeping in touch with others in different states, or even checking assignments, but on an honest look, most people do it for the social reasons, hint the name ‘Social Networking.’ Another fun thing about Facebook is to think about how you ended up getting one yourself. You heard that someone had a Facebook so you were curious. Say you didn’t get on right away but then you found out It was the socially accepted thing to do,then you go back and get on anyways. I think it is almost cooler to not have a Facebook than to have one because then you are going against the norm. I noticed all this but I still couldn’t convince myself to get rid of mine. Now think about your profile picture a lot of people take thousands of pictures and pick the one they feel most comfortable about themselves with. It gives people a completely posed picture, or you give a fake idea of who you are. Facebook helps you make a totally fake identity.
MEAGAN DONOVAN
I will be analyzing the almighty that is Harry Potter as I am clearly obsessed with him. My devotion may read to others to be quote “insane” or “weird,” but there are many reason why many people could and should like Harry Potter as there is depth to him and his story. With depth there are also many lenses to look at Harry. Through a feminist lens we can observe how Hermione is always left in the dust, thought of as inferior to Harry and Ron, and is never given even half the credit she deserves for saving those boys so many times. She represents the clichéd smart, quite, and meek character who is strangely enough attractive in the films. This is the only positive feminists can find throughout Harry Potter; there are literally no other women in the books that hold power over a man or have anything positive influence. Also through a feminist lens we can observe how Harry Potter is such a lady’s man. He is not only attractive in the novel and desired by many other young witches, but in real life as well. J.K. Rowling’s character came to life through Daniel Radcliff, and the fantasy of there being a “real” Harry Potter is in fact sexy to millions of women other than I for sure. This is a good transition point to also look at the novels, setting, and characters through a Freudian lens. Harry is considered as sexy, as many are aware. He rides around on a broomstick much nicer, longer, and expensive than the others’ Quiditch players which could represent him being hung like a horse, and exploiting his male superiority. He also rejects many women who seek him, giving off the genuine “player” vibe. We may also look at Harry’s glasses and how many women are attracted to smarter men who typically wear glasses as a result of their intelligence. This is absolutely insane as we know many smart people do not wear glasses such as Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Lance Armstrong. As we look with the Marxist lens at Harry potter we see many other unnoticed details. We all know that Harry’s fame comes from his deceased parents, and their role in the witchcraft and wizardry world. And we can also assume through Harry’s scholarship to Hogwarts is mainly in part of this, his extraordinary talent with magic, and also because of his parent’s social and monetary status. No one wants to idolize a poor, unsocial wizard, and Rowling subconsciously knows this. All lenses are present, and if i could write a 10 page paper about all of them and prevelance in the novels, characters, and setting in both the real and fake worlds...you can be certain I would write 11.
Super Mario Bros seems like a fun item to analyze here. I would like to start with my mentioning of the feminist lens seeing this game. Everyone knows that Mario and Luigi are out to save a princess. Why couldn't it just be another good friend of Mario's, or even a long lost brother? Of course, it has to be a tall, fit, blonde, pink drees wearing woman. Would it be possible that men feel more need to play the game because they're saving an "attractive" woman? Think about it. Everytime a castle is beat and mushroom man is there the apologise to you, it's an overwhelming letdown. It's not just because we didn't beat the entire game! It's because we wanted the girl that badly. No, that's just a thought, kind of a funny one. Finding something through the Marxist lens is a bit tougher for this game. What I can think of is the idea that the main characters are plumbers. And what do they have to do? They have to do all, and I mean every bit of the hard work to save this princess. The lower class, blue collar dude has to be recognised for his work through this game. Why couldn't a king just bash into this castle, get rid of Bowser, and nab the princess, saving these two plumbers a lot of frustrating time. Through the Freudian lens, this game is rumored to subliminally refer to drugs. When Mario gets a mushroom, he grows much taller :0. The green tunnels aren't called tubes, they're called pipes. Mario collects coins throughout the game, and coming from a funny aquantance, when one is high they feel as though they're rich. Personally, it seems like a stretch. But nevertheless, turtles fly! Big dragons are around to kill Mario, there are even dudes that are essentially made of mushroom! It looks like the eating of mushrooms didn't only have a growing effect, they also are making the plumbers hallucinate to an absolute extreme! Once again, just a thought. Like Mr. C says, buy it if you want. When you really think about it, this game has plenty of aspects to be viewed through the critical lenses, and to be noticed as well as appreciated.
For my exhibit analysis, I chose an advertisement for LYNX Shower Gel. The image is of a woman covered in mud and the words ‘wash me’ appear on her stomach. The ad is degrading to women and has a definite sexual innuendo. The male mind will see this ad and if they were to use the product they will get the opportunity to wash hot chicks. But not to their knowledge, are they accepting false promises. Also, the name of the body wash itself, the brand….LYNX, not only our school mascot but an animal in and of itself. The very fact that the brand name is an animal shows how using the product will bring out the animal instinctual behaviors in you, and/or in women around you. The background is a simple blue tile, color agreeing with the product but yet focus is placed on the woman’s body. There is no face to the woman, and her legs are not fully shown. This gives way to the ad being very impersonal and it really not mattering what emotions may be occurring, just primal instinct behavior. The ad makes men think that if they have this product they will instantly become irresistible to all women and will have to clean them up because they get so dirty with them. It’s almost depicting women like objects. For instance, when a person has a very dirty car, there will always be that one person that has to write ‘wash me’ on the car or something in the dirt. This connects women to cars. They are expendable, and are a good ‘ride’ as bad as that is. Ads like these get it into mens minds that they can have whatever they want if they use certain products. There is no mistake in writing ‘wash me’ on the woman’s stomach in the picture. There is no face to draw attention to and the legs are cut off to not draw attention down. Therefore the words are conveniently and strategically placed in the middle to focus equal amounts of attention to the woman’s “areas” of interest. The way her hands are posed in the picture makes you think that she just can’t wait to rip off what little clothing she has on, she wants to set herself free of all constraint and return to the primitive natural state, natural used very loosely because this woman has obviously had a lot of work done to “perfect” her body which is very unnatural. It seems most ads are drawn to sexual innuendos, this one is no exception.
Katelyn Christensen
Period 6
For my analyzation i have chosen That 70's Show. I will look at this show through a feminist lense. The show is obviously based in the 1970's which is right when the movement of hippies and the appearance of harder drugs came to the scene of America. You look at how the main family is portrayed. The mother is alwasy wearing an apron and is a nurse at the hospital. Two typical jobs for women to hold before the hippie revolution. The daughter is the new era of women. She has slept with multiple men and can not even remember who her first time having sex was with. This shows you why the TV show is so popular. It was mirroring the image of the entire scene of America in the '70s. The father is a hard working veteran that works in shops selling things for the most part. He believes in the "true" American values that had been established and followed through by generations past. The mother tries as hard as she can to teach her daughter about the things that women used to do back in the time that she was growing up. Cooking, cleaning, doing laundry. The daughter portrays the women of the 70's perfectly and does not want anything to do with this. She is all about free living just as all the women were at this time of America's past. There is another women in this show who is a little bit more pamphered in her lifestyle. Mommy and Daddy are a little more wealthy and she believes that her poop doesnt stink. She is your typical stuck up teenage girl who would not be able to live without having a boyfriend that did whatever she wanted for her. This demeans the women of this time period and states that they were either rich and wanted everything or they were hippies that wanted free sex and free drugs and thought that it would make the world a better place. You dont actually see the daughter of the main family doing drugs but the son of the family does it and the way that she acts, dresses, and ends up with new men almost every episode one can infer that the use of an illegal drug is prevelant. Lastly there is the girl in the middle. She lives next door to the main family and is the only one who is not slutty like the daughter of the main family but not snotty like the daughter of the wealthy family. She is today's modern middle class female and is represented very well in this show. She is shown to have a good head on her shoulders and a good work ethic and does not let men run her life and choose her lifestyle.
I choice to anylaze the tv show That 70's show because i watch this movie everyday when i get out of school after fith period and it has be my favorite show for awhile now. Trough a feminst lens this show has 3 imoprant females in it. Eric's mom Kitty, his girlfriend "HOT" dana and jackie burkhard who goes from dating kalso the funny dumb good lucky one of the group to hied to laid back trouble making dude. but these women in the shos dont really do much but have input in the show and to add more favor to the show like jakie is a rich little stuck up girl that always gets her way and dana is the smart kinda hot but always knows what the right thing is to do. Kitty plays the biggest role as a female in this show cause she is the mom basiclly of the whole crew hieds dad is in jail and doest know where his mom is, Fez is the "FORIGN" in the movie i think he is just there to make the show better and what not but he has every trait of a ladies man except he doesnt get the ladies if you know what i mean. but through the whole show he is sent there to see how america is by his parents so kitty is his mother in away and through this whole show you never do see kalso's parents at all only his brother you comes in a later episode but never his parents. i used the marxies lens on this show to and it was during the 1970's so that's kinda durin the hard core drug era so everyone did drugs backe then as a kid anyways. but the Formans live in a modren house, Red the dad works his but off for everything they have and is the classic hard dad that tells there kids the truth and isnt a push over at all he always calls eric his son a dumb-ass in one way or another but he really does love him deep deep deep down in side. Kitty has one of those classic jobs too see is a nurse taht works alot to but its just one of those jobs women had back then. oh and i almost for got erics sister laure is a hot little thing taht is daddys favorite but messes up all the time but still gets her way even tho she gets around alot, she even hits on one of the pasters in an episode.
I want to analyze the rapper Lil' Wayne. First off I would like to say that Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. is my hero, insperation, idol, and one of the most important figures in my life. The way that his voice sounds, to the way he looks, it's just phenomenal. Through a marxist lense one could see that on the surface Wayne is just another african american who has overcome alot and became a sucess. Wayne came from a poor family with a single mom and no father (typically seen in most african american families.) Through the struggle of poverty and the rough New Orleans life, Wayne persevered to become one the BEST RAPPERS alive, a title that was given to him by the millions of fans he has. Through a feminist lense one would say that Wayne is a pig. With his lyrics, wayne depicts women as property that he owns. He has multiple partners and has 2 children with different women. Wayne, though he tries to be a great father, spends little time with his daughter due to concerts and such things. But Lil Wayne loves his mother. He loves his mom and when he was younger he hid alot of the things he did just so he would not make his mom sad. In his song "La La La" he raps: " And you know I'm duckin 5-0 and my moms.." insinuating that he is doing something bad that he doesn't want his mother or the police to see. The marxist in me would say that Wayne is the ultimate business man. He constantly tells everybody that he honestly cares only about one thing...MONEY. Wayne, like myself, has realized that not religion, not love, not life makes you happy, but that green paper the government prints out will truely make you happy. Call it greedy but money is truely his and my motivation. Freud would say that Waynes lyrics are mostly from the extensive drug use he is involved in and what he imagines. In his song "I Feel Like Dying", Wayne raps about playing basketball on mars and football in space. Insisting that he is beyond earth and life itself. Wayne always refers to himself as a martian, from another world. To me Lil Wayne is the greatest artist on the planet. He twists words and music into something that litterly grabs my brain and puts it into a blender. It leaves me breathless when he releases a new song or mixtape. I love Lil Wayne and I hope that his music continues to live on and that people will open up their minds to his creativness.
Lindsay Dohrman
The exibit i chose was the grocery store. Obviously everyone goes to the grocery store weather its sunshine, hyvee, or even wal mart. I chose a marxist lens to analyze these stores with. Each of these grocery stores have there own brand, which is normally cheaper than the name brand. Including bread, milk, cheese, pizza, and even shampoo. If you were to creep in people's grocery carts, you'll find that some people always buy the off brand, some people who buy name and off brand things, and some people who buy all name brand items. I know this, because i used to work at sunshine in brandon. and seeing all the people and what they buy can kind of show you how they rank in status. The people who bought all off brand things, maybe they didn't have a lot of money, or maybe they don't care? ..or maybe the off brand is truly better. I'm not saying that if you buy off brand items you're poor, because I, myself buy off brand items sometimes, and i know for sure that my mother does too. Then, you have the customers that buy all name brand items, you see the completely opposite than the people who buy off brand items. I'm sure they have a lot more money. Just because they spend a dollar more on something that could taste the same as an off brand item, but they feel the need to do it because it's the name that matters. I honestly can say that i think some people care about what food brands they buy, but really who cares? okay, maybe if its good it could be worth it. Who cares about what bread brand they have. this is not just in grocery stores either. In the mall, you have people going for the name brand clothing's such as buckle, american eagle, and coach. Some people may be rich so they say "why not, i have the money?" or they may shop at these places because they like the store. I shop at a few of these places because i like them, i definitely can't say i have the money to go on a shopping spree there. Just seeing what people buy at stores can really show there status. I'M NOT JUDGING ANYONE.
The exibit i chose to analyze was Lil Wayne, or Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. The first thing that people think of when they hear the name lil wayne is they think rapper, so they automatically think that he is a big trouble maker and that he can't ever and will never do anything right. Yes Lil Wayne has gotten into some trouble in his life but he is also not what you would expect in a rapper. Lil Wayne grew up in New Orleans, living with this mother and only his mother because his father left him as a young kid, while i am talking about Lil waynes father. Lil Waynes fathers name is Dwayne Michael Carter, and because he left Lil Wayne and his mother at a young age lil wayne decided to call himself and have everyone call him Wayne so he can forget about the father that has never been in his life and never will be. When people think of rappers they usually think that they are school drop outs becuase they couldnt keep up with their school work. Though Lil Wayne did eventually drop out of school at 13 he was a straight A student in school, and was always doing his school work. Another thing he worked on while he was a kid was music, Lil wayne wrote his first rap at age 8 and at age 11 he was recorded while doing freestyle raps.
Through a feminist lense Lil wayne would be one of the most dicusting guys out there. If you were to watch one of his music videos the girls are all over him doing whatever to him that he wants them to do. It seems as though he does not care for women whats so ever and uses that as more of props then people. Through a marxist lense Lil Wayne could be looked at as a perfect business man, he knows how to handle money, he has alot of it, and he loves his money. One reason Lil Wayne would be looked at as a perfect business man is he knows how to work his customers (people who buy his songs.) Lil Wayne releases hundres of free mixtapes for the world to hear, then when people listen to them they will see that he is a good rapper. So then he releases his tops cds and charges for them, so then everyone who likes his songs wont hesitate and will buy the cd imediately. This method is the reason when Tha Carter III came out in 2008, more than a million copies were sold in the first week of its release. Lil Wayne calls himself a true gangter because he does what he wants when he wants and he doesn't worry about the consequences. To me it seems like this is working for him, he started as a poor boy living on the streets in New Orleans and is now considered the best rapper alive making tons of money and living his life the way he wants.
Austin Sumner p.6
I have chosen Call of Duty: Modern Warefare as my exibit. Women are nowhere to be found in this video game. Using a Feminist lense this tells us that women aren't fit for war. This is obviously untrue because women do serve as big of a role as men do in the war I believe. To be honest, in the all Call of Duty games thier are more dogs and chickens then their are women. This is quite degrading to women, its basically like going back to when women didn't have to right to vote because they weren't smart enough or something. But usually when we talk about war all we here is "this many men died today", or "this many men died in this war". I've never heard "this many women died in this war". I know that to be a soldier takes alot of hardwork and you have to be in great shape. Men are, most of the time, much stronger than men but i know a few women that are in a lot better shape than I am. In this video game their are a few different army that are apart. Their is an army of rebels that you could compare to the Iraqi soldiers. These guys don't really have the military uniforms that the marines have. A marxist critic would these men are differently lower class and live in poverty. Their dont have to money to be as equip as the marines or the germans. Althought they don't have all the knicks and crannies they still match up so the power between these armies are quite equal (also depends on who is on your team i guess). Also, in some of the maps, the building are blown up or just look rundown, along with cars and planes. A marxist critic would point this out and say these cities are the definition of poverty, like ghettos. Using a freudian lense you could say this game gives us a chance to let go of our ego and superego, and let our id take over. We always here about the war but many are scared to join. This game and games alike help us with that drive (especially when you are a marine fighting against the Iraqi's).
I have chosen Call of Duty: Modern Warefare as my exibit. Women are nowhere to be found in this video game. Using a Feminist lense this tells us that women aren't fit for war. This is obviously untrue because women do serve as big of a role as men do in the war I believe. To be honest, in the all Call of Duty games thier are more dogs and chickens then their are women. This is quite degrading to women, its basically like going back to when women didn't have to right to vote because they weren't smart enough or something. But usually when we talk about war all we here is "this many men died today", or "this many men died in this war". I've never heard "this many women died in this war". I know that to be a soldier takes alot of hardwork and you have to be in great shape. Men are, most of the time, much stronger than men but i know a few women that are in a lot better shape than I am. In this video game their are a few different army that are apart. Their is an army of rebels that you could compare to the Iraqi soldiers. These guys don't really have the military uniforms that the marines have. A marxist critic would these men are differently lower class and live in poverty. Their dont have to money to be as equip as the marines or the germans. Althought they don't have all the knicks and crannies they still match up so the power between these armies are quite equal (also depends on who is on your team i guess). Also, in some of the maps, the building are blown up or just look rundown, along with cars and planes. A marxist critic would point this out and say these cities are the definition of poverty, like ghettos. Using a freudian lense you could say this game gives us a chance to let go of our ego and superego, and let our id take over. We always here about the war but many are scared to join. This game and games alike help us with that drive (especially when you are a marine fighting against the Iraqi's).
Austin Sumner p.6
im going to analyze a song by lil wayne called we be steady mobbin' featuring gucci mane.
http://www.elyricsworld.com/we_be_steady_mobbin_(feat._gucci_mane)_lyrics_lil_wayne.html
please excuse the swearing but this is a song and i wanted to express it in it's entirety. most of the things lil wayne talks about in this song are living the good life and having a big house. he says that he is better than anyone else and all the girls bow down to him and do whatever he says. if anyone thinks he is better than lil wayne, he says he will take them down and murder them. yes these lyrics are graphic but they are also very moving. wayne puts so much heart and passion into his songs that even though they are obscene you can hear where he is coming from on them. when gucci raps he talks about how he dont wear nike clothes or anything, all he wears is gucci. he spends hundreds of dollars on just a shirt or a pair of pants and it is a little ridiculous. lil wayne in the end of the song makes a phalic reference by saying suck my clip and swallow my bullets. this through a freaudian lens shows that his phalicness is related to a pistol and anyone that rides on it or gets it from him better not mess around because he will kill them
by Jessi Lunstra
I want to analyze the song, "Stand Beside Me" by Jo Dee Messina. I guess this song sticks out to me because she says that she wants a man to stand beside her. Saying that she wants someone to always be there, no matter what. At the begining of the song, she sort of explain what happened, giving the listener a little view of the story. It's also forcing the listener to feel sorry for the singer. When Jo Dee tells us that her lover had to "find himself out on the road," I instantly thought that he wasn't sure that he wanted to be with her. It could also mean that he's not confident enough to be with her. The courus of the song is, "I want a man that stands beside me, not in front of or behind me." If in fact there was a man standing in front of her, it would be a man that is cocky and maybe a little full of himself. He would probably also be a man that thought himself a more powerful person. A man that would stand behind her would be a man not so sure of himself. He would probably be not very confident in himself and would look at her as the more superior figure. Obviously every woman wants a man to stand beside her, to help her to live and get the best out of life, for her to lean on. Through a feminist lens, I can see that most men think as women as a lesser being and would prefer to "stand in front" of her, but women can see that that would be wrong and would love to have a man as an equal.
Everybody has access to one. It can work, play, and connect. It's a PC. Computers are a relatively new technology and you can readily find one in almost every home today. The popularity and capabilities of computers has been growing exponentially over the past forty years. This is due mainly to Moore's law, which states that computers double in power about every two years, and the resulting increase in utility of computer technologies. This has had a profound effect on the market of today. Cell phones, cars, and televisions are all monitored and driven by computer systems. Whoever controls the computers, controls the infrastructure of the modern world. Banks control much of their finances through computers and they spend a fortune to keep it that way. Every time you use your credit card, it electronically transfers funds from your account to the store's account by means of a magnetic strip with a code linked to your checking account. Computers have come far from an over sized, overpriced calculator in the basement of a large corporation or university. You can now have the power of that basement on your fingertip for a few dollars and as long as computers continue to evolve, people will continue to buy them.
The Exhibit i chose to disect was the Home page of MAXIM.com. For my evaluation and anyalysis i use the fruedian and feminist lens. When opening the Maxim website you see the words hot girls and Sexy photos. For men, the targets for this particular magizine, these phrases not only catch attention but also raise pulses and much curiosity sometimes arousal. Once men see this they want to search through the website for these Girls and Photos pretty disgusting and perverted. They don't have to look far however because there is a scroll bar that allows the men to go straight to the pictures. after they get there fix of hot girls, the men can have the option of going through this rest of the site. you see accrossed the top a thin bar in a somewhat phalic shape displays the different sections of the website for people to use. the 9 sections are separated in order of what almost seems most important to least. it goes from Subscribe, to gaming, girls, humor, movies, music, sports, stuff, tv, and videos. scrolling down you see the newest features going from hot girls and ninjas and the supposedly worst places to be hungover. these are also key things that many men are thought to be interested in. and are interested in. sadly. much of this website is devoted to objectifying women and only making men think even less of women. and only holding society back from the progress of equal rights for both sexes. while this site and magazine can be interesting it is overall horrible for the general public to view and any woman would hate this through the feminist lense.
JOEY BRANNAN P.5
Chris Kujawa
Period 7
I chose to analyze hy-vee for this blog because it is very easy to apply lenses to this store. First, in a feminist lense you can see many jobs throughout the store that are chosen for men and almost men alone including doing carts, stocking, and just about anything that has to do with physical labor. Also if you look at the departments throughout the store you can see that different jobs are chosen for different sexes. I have been working in the chinese department for almost 2 years now and i only know of 2 women that have worked there in that past 4 years. The floral department and the deli are usually only ran by women unless the deli needs some extra help. I have never seen a man work in the floral department though. In a marxist lense you can see how management equals more of a DB than the person under them. All that the main really high upper management thinks about is how they can make more money even at the cost of losing employees because of unfair placement. If you look at the supervisors that are basically around the other employees that interact more and seem like normal people, they are a lot nicer to be around because they dont only think about the money but the higher you go the more non-interactive you want to be with them.
A rifle, a powerful thing but yet so small and sometimes light. IT makes loud noises that after a time of exposer without proper ear protection, can deafen you. They're fun to go and shoot random stuff but once they get into the wrong hands, they're very dangerous. They are more common in the male gender than the females, males like them because they think they are cool when they shoot a bigger buck or are more accurate than the other guys. Men like rifles because it's something they can go do with the guys and have a few alcoholic drinks while doing it but not become so stupid they become unsafe to those around them. I like rifles because they give me the opportunity to go and spend time with my dad, brother, grandpa, and friends. I hate the idea of banning guns which is why i like the second amendment i believe that says we have the right to bear arms, great amendment! Rifles can also teach a person about things, like sighting in a rifle and the intellect that goes into sighting it at this range, and at this spot. Sighting in a rifle takes time and a lot of shooting, if you shoot a high powered rifle like mine forty times, the next day your shoulder is a stiff one. That's really the only downfall about shooting these rifles, the kickback you receive after you drop the hammer. Lower caliber rifles are nice for starters but if you want to drop an animal on the spot than i recommend buying a 7mm mag, these kick like a mule and your animal is not going far at all. The only bad thing about going out to purchase a rifle is that you have to be eighteen first and if you want to carry this rifle around with you than you must go and get your concealment permit, I think you have to be twenty one for this, sketchy on the details. I do know for a fact that in order to buy a pistol you must be twenty one but rifles are eighteen. I would like to go and buy a AR-15 when I come back from my training for the military because they are excellent rifles for shooting prairie dogs or coyotes. The only downfall with buying this type of rifle is that they can run in where from four hundred to ten thousand dollars, it all depends what you put on them or get modded. Rifles are cool and you can do a whole lot to them to fit your needs but you mainly have to be careful with them and watch where your shooting and whats in the background of your shot. Bullets travel and they travel far depending on the gun you have.
The exhibit that I chose for analysis is one of the sample exhibits that is given: Sarah Palin. Analyzing Palin through a Marxist you lens you can see that wealth and money are a major factor for any politician, because you need a lot of money for financing and running campaigns for any election. Without a stable financial background your chances to be elected for a office go down drastically. Power systems also come into play in this exhibit, because anytime you win an election or enter an office you effectively become part of the bourgeoisie, regardless if you came from the proletariat class or not, becoming a politician gives you a lot more power than the average citizen, this power and respect that you obtain is one of the major influences that people have for running for a election, like how when billionaires run for office they don't run for the paycheck, but for the power and respect. You can also analyze Palin through a Feminist lens, analyzing her through a feminist lens you can see how she can be positively portrayed as being a strong willed female who has acquired a lot of success in a traditionally male dominated gender role and profession. She can be also be negatively portrayed as a woman by being called less qualified and less intelligent, in my opinion this criticism would be far less, or even non existent if she were a male, even if it is the truth. Palin got put and gets put under peoples criticisms more then other politicians, because she is a female. This is because it is the social expectations that men are the leaders of a society, and even present day when a female tries to take this role some people are naturally suspicious. Sarah Palin analyzed through the Freudian lens can reveal to us her motivations for becoming what she is today. Sarah Palin came from a relatively "poor" family, this circumstance could be a factor of her strong will to succeed. Another factor could be her fierce competitive spirit. In high school she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" due to her competitiveness. She might view politics as just another competition.
For my exhibit, I am going to analyze not just one song, but the entire “Innocence and Instinct” album by the band Red. In using the Freudian lens to look first at the band, it is interesting to see that Red is one of the very few bands out there that mixes orchestral sounds as well as hard rock. In songs you can hear strings and pianos as well as huge guitar riffs and driving bass and drum rhythms, two elements that usually don’t go together. This idea of combining opposites to form beauty in music goes right along with their work in their album. Throughout the album, singer and songwriter Mike Barnes talks of struggles and making difficult decisions in our lives. The first song, Fight Inside, is kind of a summary of what the album will be about. The song starts out with the idea of opposites once again with the opening lines, “Enemy, familiar friend, My beginning and my end.” The song continues into a struggle of some kind within himself. The further along the song goes, the more aggressive it becomes as the tempo quickens and the soft voice turns slowly into a menacing yell. In the beginning the fight is only hurting him, but by the end the lyric changes from hurting to breaking. After a huge guitar breakdown followed by screams of “its nothing, its everything” being repeated in the background, the song charges into its final chorus and ends with Barnes violently screaming in pain “I’m falling apart, I’m falling apart.” It is surely a rousing opening to the album. The album continues into a similar message of struggle and defeat in the primarily rock sounding song, “Death of me.” The album begins to change sides in the third track, “Mystery of you.” After that primarily soft vocal work, “Start again” brings on a message of hope to the listener with lines like "what if I let you in/ what if I make it right/ what if I give it up/ what I want to try/ what if you take a chance/ what if I learn to love/ what if we start again." Barnes is almost pleading with himself to let hope and love back into his life. “Never be the same” I think is responding to the prior track. Barnes talks of a major love in his life that forever changes him for the better. “Confession” is a blunt relapse back into depression. Devastatingly emotional lines like "I'm on the edge/ I don't know how/ I can't escape this nightmare/ I confess- I'm always afraid/ I'm always ashamed of what's inside me.” The rest of the album includes a Duran Duran cover of “Ordinary world” as well as intensely passionate lyrics as well as music. I think it all connects with trying to find a balance between you Id and Superego.
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