Monday 13 October 2014

Essay Plan; gender roles

Valerie; nurtures Evie's character development, at Evie's lowest point she nurtures her. 
Sutler; nazi GERMANY; family values. Sutler is the father to Creedy; he kills him to gain control; opedipus complex. The population are female because they are fearful. The fuher ; the fatherland that protects. 
Dietrich; her boss; Evie looking towards him as a father figure. Dietrich is emasculated and feminised. When we discover his sexuality 
Gender roles are subverted; not to be passive but to be active, portrayed through masculinity; men are active, women are passive 


  • Revolution: guns = phallic
  • Roses=symbolising yonic imagery/death 
  • Lever; can blow up parliment; phallic imagery results in yonic imagery 
  • Creedy points down his gun; flaccid phallic imagery; surrendering, emasculated
  • Passive revolution which is a feminine trait; celebrating female virtue.
  • Yonic and phallic imagery; train in the tunnel; birthing scene; Evie turns into a mother figure, birthing freedom and revolution. 
  • Blowing up Parliment; a male dominant democracy; destroying it with symbolism of yonic orgasms; blowing up big ben; destruction of yonic; 
  • He was my father and my mother; taking on both roles. 
  • Every character who was killed by the government returns at the end. 

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