How does making the antagonist, Goldilocks, a pretty, young, blonde, girl affect the reader and how does it show sexism and racial preference throughout the story?
Yours is the only one up! Also, I reference sexism in Goldilocks, too! Haha how weird! Anyway, she's portrayed as something that could be angelic. The contrast of a naughty or wrongdoing girl portrays her as a fallen angel. This, in turn, creates her into a Satanic (or at least devilish) figure. The author (whoever wrote the original) is now portraying women as devils. The author is most likely a male, though I'm not sure, but this story seems really old and most author's a long time ago were male. The sexism is obvious because the girl is the one doing everything wrong.
I think he's portraying Goldilocks more as the naive nature of women. Saying that women are naive similarly to the girl in the story. Basically down grading women, as naive and somewhat ditsy (since Goldilocks doesn't seem to realize breaking and entering isn't exactly a good thing to do)more then trying to hint at a devilish side of all women. Since especially in the older days, women through television were often portrayed as ditsy and cute, for humour.
The reader than sees woman as selfish gold diggers only in it for them selfs. Another woman's bowl of soup wasn't good enough for a woman, so that's the sexism part. Also, it shows that girls only eat and sleep and do nothing.
I view the character of Goldilocks as a satire of the way that some humans act. A much broader stance than just singling out women. While it very well could have been the author's intent to poke fun at women and their roles in society, I doubt that it was the primary reason for using the charachter of Goldilocks. In saying that this was the sole point the author was trying to convey in the story would be similar to saying that the author uses bears in the story to show that all bears arent accomidating in the least and dont take kindly to someone else sampling a little of their porridge or testing their furniture.
Yours is the only one up! Also, I reference sexism in Goldilocks, too! Haha how weird! Anyway, she's portrayed as something that could be angelic. The contrast of a naughty or wrongdoing girl portrays her as a fallen angel. This, in turn, creates her into a Satanic (or at least devilish) figure. The author (whoever wrote the original) is now portraying women as devils. The author is most likely a male, though I'm not sure, but this story seems really old and most author's a long time ago were male. The sexism is obvious because the girl is the one doing everything wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think he's portraying Goldilocks more as the naive nature of women. Saying that women are naive similarly to the girl in the story. Basically down grading women, as naive and somewhat ditsy (since Goldilocks doesn't seem to realize breaking and entering isn't exactly a good thing to do)more then trying to hint at a devilish side of all women. Since especially in the older days, women through television were often portrayed as ditsy and cute, for humour.
ReplyDeleteThe reader than sees woman as selfish gold diggers only in it for them selfs. Another woman's bowl of soup wasn't good enough for a woman, so that's the sexism part. Also, it shows that girls only eat and sleep and do nothing.
ReplyDeleteI view the character of Goldilocks as a satire of the way that some humans act. A much broader stance than just singling out women. While it very well could have been the author's intent to poke fun at women and their roles in society, I doubt that it was the primary reason for using the charachter of Goldilocks. In saying that this was the sole point the author was trying to convey in the story would be similar to saying that the author uses bears in the story to show that all bears arent accomidating in the least and dont take kindly to someone else sampling a little of their porridge or testing their furniture.
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