Mona Lisa Smile December 10th‚ 2012 Part A: Using the movie as a source‚ how have roles changed in respect to how women are viewed in society since the 1950s? How have things not changed? Since the 1950s‚ roles have changed in respect to how women were viewed in society. The film Mona Lisa Smile depicts the traditional ideology of a woman’s role in society as a domestic homemaker as well as the new idea of an educated woman. Education was utilised to teach respectable women how to prepare
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Mona Lisa Smile The movie "Mona Lisa Smile" is set in the 1950s and deals with the starting feminist’s movement against traditional roles. The main character‚ "History of Art" teacher Katherine Watson‚ arrives at the conservative all-women college of Wellesley and tries to teach her really smart students not only art history but also independence. She also wants her students to know that their aim‚ namely getting married‚ does not have to be their only purpose of life‚ but that it is also possible
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By watching Mona Lisa Smile‚ I noticed that life as a young adult during the 1950 ’s was similar and very different than how life is now in 2005. In the 1950 ’s birth control was unheard of and people made it out to be against the law whereas today‚ birth control is the most widely used drug to prevent pregnancy. Within a typical 1950 ’s household‚ the soul responsibility of a wife was taking care of her husband and kids and the husband’s role was working for his family and keeping them financially
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Mona Lisa Smile takes place in 1953 and tells the story of a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and left as a first-year teacher from Oakland State University. She also leaves her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles‚ California‚ to teach at Wellesley College‚ a conservative women’s private liberal arts college in Massachusetts‚ United States. Katherine Ann Watson tries to open her students’ minds to their freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. She encourages her students
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Abbey Ginnifer Goodwin as Connie Baker Kirsten Dunst as Betty Warren Juliet Stevenson as Amanda Armstrong Julia Stiles as Joan Brandwyn Dominic West as Bill Dunbar Maggie Gyllenhaal as Giselle Levy Summary Of The Movie In Mona Lisa Smile‚ Julia Roberts leads an all-star cast of prominent young actresses including Kirsten Dunst‚ Julia Stiles‚ Maggie Gyllenhaal and newcomer Ginnifer Goodwin‚ in a story of women struggling to define themselves in a world that has already defined
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Mona Lisa Smile. Dir. by Mike Newell. Columbia Pictures‚ 2003. In the movie‚ Mona Lisa Smile directed by Mike Newell‚ a new art history professor at Wellesley College teaches her female students alternatives to their seemingly preordained futures as wives and mothers. In this paper we will examine women ’s roles in the 1950 ’s through Mona Lisa Smile and compare this film to actual experiences of Wellesley collage graduates. In 1953‚ a time when women ’s roles were rigidly defined‚ free-spirited
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gender roles are innate.Gender roles are learned and internalized with the help of agencies such as family‚educational institutions.There are these agencies in this movie.Furthermore‚functional approach suggest that gender differences contribute to social stability and integration.Namely‚the women should concentrate on domestic and family responsibilities while men work outside the home.There are expressive roles for women and instrumental roles for men.The females should provide care and security
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My Grandma’s really into buying bootleg DVD’s at the Flea Market and picked up Mona Lisa Smile. I didn’t see it in theaters but I heard awful reviews of it. Everything from "this movies doesn’t make sense‚" to "just feminist garbage". Bored off my mind one night‚ I decided to pop the DVD in and have a look with my cousin. Both her and I agreed it was one of the best movies we had ever seen! We loved every character‚ we thought it was so well done‚ and the plot was just amazing. There is not one
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The Mona Lisa‚ is it just a piece of artwork‚ or one of the best pieces of artwork in the history of art? The Mona Lisa was painted in the early 16th century by one of the most widely known artist at that time‚ Leonardo Da Vinci. It is said that the painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini the wife of Francesco Del Giocondo‚ but also could be portrayed as Da Vinci himself in female form. Researchers claim that Da Vinci used mathematical equations to create the painting such as‚ the golden triangle
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that most people would discard‚ it is quite an enigma as to why the world has been obsessed with the “Mona Lisa” for over 500 years. In “Ways of Seeing” John Berger‚ an art historian and novelist (only a tiny sample of the different ways I could title this Renaissance man)‚ offers his readers a way into understanding the moment captured in paintings‚ especially mysterious paintings like the “Mona Lisa.” He suggests that viewers ask questions about and to the painting as way into entering into a sort
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