Monday, February 11, 2019
Essay --
text A is a comic strip authorise CATHY, created by Cathy Guisewite and published in 1986. The text talks about sex activity stereotypes and the fact that people become ignorant when it comes to sexual urge. Text B is an derive from a annals by Shusha Guppy, The Blindfold Horse, Memories of a Persian childhood, and is published in 1988. This text is about gender inequality plainly as well refers to destiny and determinism vs. free will. Both texts deal with the ordinary theme of gender stereotypes, but each one approaches the theme from a variant point of view. The comic mainly focuses on the physical and behavioral characteristics that identify each gender, whether the extract focuses on gender stereotypes from a incompatible view, gender inequality, and also talks about determinism and destiny in life. In Text A, Cathy supports her ideas with a series of sketches and the use of visual images by adding nervus facialis expressions to the characters. In contrast, Text B ha s a more narrative air and passes the message to the audience without the use of direct images. A similarity among the two texts is the date of publication and thus the reader elicit learn that they have a similar contextual background. However text B, as an extract from a memoir, talks about events that occurred years before the publication.Text A has the purpose of showing how people viewed specific characteristics as virile or feminine and sensitizes people that sex stereotyping is compulsory. From the first image we can see that the mother of the ball up is not saying yet the babys sex in order for it to have the ability to garner people, continue living free, away from stereotypical characteristics that may affect its life. The chemical reaction of the nurse, Ill bet its a boy, r... ...traditional Persian ship canal and shows that the narrator stands up for the sex equality. The veil is also literally utilize as a symbol to hide womens beauty and suck up their feeling of being less towards the society. At both texts there has been guardedly selected word choice to relay the message. This word choice is basically feminized for the commentary of the women and hence, we can understand that both writers are feminists and they have the similar object lens audience.To conclude, women nowadays have a more advanced and sophisticated government agency in society although the sex stereotypes continue to exist and societies attitudes change towards gender roles. The contrast between a comic with an extract from a memoir which share a common theme, provides us with information about the different attitudes that cultures have towards gender stereotypes and especially towards women.
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