{"id":3888,"date":"2021-09-12T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/gender-roles-in-popular-romantic-movies-of-the-2000s\/gender-roles-in-the-notebook\/"},"modified":"2021-09-12T20:37:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T20:37:53","slug":"gender-roles-in-the-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/gender-roles-in-popular-romantic-movies-of-the-2000s\/gender-roles-in-the-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Roles in The Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The media I will be analyzing will be the movie, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Notebook. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This film takes place in the 1940s, when the cultural expectations for genders were much different than they are now. Below I have highlighted specific examples from the film that emphasize gender roles and stereotypes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Masculinity In The Notebook<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a scene in the movie where Noah is teaching Allie how to drive. In the 1940s driving was seen as a skill that was manly.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Lon proposes to Allie, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he says \u201cI&#8217;m wealthy, I&#8217;m from the South, I got a decent job&#8230; I&#8217;m a really smart guy\u201d. This scene not only implies that a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cram.com\/subjects\/woman\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">woman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> looks for a man that is smart, wealthy, powerful, and a leading force in the relationship, but also that men are expected to be able to supply and take care of a woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noah is very reserved, and not emotional throughout the film.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another classic \u201cmanly\u201d stereotype that Noah portrays is that he can build things and does manual labor. In the film, he builds and renovates Allie\u2019s dream home as an attempt to win her love back (and it works).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noah is portrayed as very brave. A few examples are when he joins and serves in the army, and when hangs off the top of the ferris wheel to impress Allie.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of the men in this film smoke often, but never the women.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The men that are very rich work in offices in the city and are often well dressed and put together. These are the men that Allie\u2019s parents tell her she should be with, and not the men that are poor and work in the mines.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The men are the initiators of relationships, and always make the first moves.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Femininity in The Notebook<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allie is portrayed to be very over emotional which is a common stereotype of women. For example, the scene where Noah is teaching her how to drive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Allie\u2019s parents do not allow her to date Noah. They believe that since she is a young woman she is not capable of finding a compatible husband on her own. They also did not approve of Noah because he came from a poor family. This again highlights the gender role that men are expected to be able to provide for the women and that a woman should have to work for money.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0On Noah and Allie\u2019s first date, Allie mentions that in her freetimes she likes to read, dance, and paint (all of which are seen as very feminine things). This also goes along with the fact that Allie is always put together nicely, very clean, and very naive.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Allie is seen as a very mothering figure. For example, while Allie is in college she becomes a nurse because she wanted to help the men who were coming home injured from the war.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media I will be analyzing will be the movie, The Notebook. 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