Alice Through The Looking Glass Essay
Throughout history women and men have been treated differently. The movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass is based on the book written by Lewis Carroll in 1871, and takes place in male dominated England. This story follows a young woman, Alice, who wants to be a strong captain like her father before her. Unfortunately, her society attempts to force her into the image they have for women: pretty and complacent. This is not the image for a captain. In order to escape the oppression of the real world, Alice enters a fantasy world in which she is a strong leader. This motivates her to rebel against the real-world gender expectations to be the person she wants to be. In Alice Through the Looking Glass, women are treated as weak and inferior to
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In the film, Alice wakes up in a mental hospital where a male doctor diagnoses her with “Typical Female Hysteria” and that her condition is “incurable” before even talking to and evaluating Alice. The doctor then attempts to inject Alice with an unnamed drug while Alice protects herself. Her mother also protests but is held back by a man. This one scene shows that society regards some women as deranged while all men are regarded as cool and calm intellectuals who know best. This is why neither Alice nor her mother are allowed to contribute any opinion on Alice’s medical care, even though the mother is both sane and highly respected. This clearly shows the disparity between the genders to the point where women cannot even make decisions that directly impact them. At one point in this movie Alice finds out that her ship was given away against her wishes and her mother attempts to make her understand why. She says, “You can not force things to be as you wanted. Every woman must face that Alice. I did.” This shows that women have been brainwashed into thinking they are unable to improve their position and that they have no choice other than to deal with it. This is important because unless the women decide that they have the power and ability to change the world’s mind, nothing will change and women will never be
In the film, Alice wakes up in a mental hospital where a male doctor diagnoses her with “Typical Female Hysteria” and that her condition is “incurable” before even talking to and evaluating Alice. The doctor then attempts to inject Alice with an unnamed drug while Alice protects herself. Her mother also protests but is held back by a man. This one scene shows that society regards some women as deranged while all men are regarded as cool and calm intellectuals who know best. This is why neither Alice nor her mother are allowed to contribute any opinion on Alice’s medical care, even though the mother is both sane and highly respected. This clearly shows the disparity between the genders to the point where women cannot even make decisions that directly impact them. At one point in this movie Alice finds out that her ship was given away against her wishes and her mother attempts to make her understand why. She says, “You can not force things to be as you wanted. Every woman must face that Alice. I did.” This shows that women have been brainwashed into thinking they are unable to improve their position and that they have no choice other than to deal with it. This is important because unless the women decide that they have the power and ability to change the world’s mind, nothing will change and women will never be