Wednesday, November 7, 2007

A Feminist at Tiffany's

Coming up with an idea for this paper took me quite a while I'll have to say. This year I feel like I have become much more of a feminist than in the past due to certain experiences I have had this year and from certain professors who are feminists. For this paper I knew that I wanted to write something from a feminist perspective but I wasnt sure exactly what to do a reading on.....
Then I thought of my favorite movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's". The 1961 film was written by, yes a man, Truman Capote. Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is the main character of the film. Holly Golightly is a young, attratctive, indipendent, energetic, and strong woman. She lives by herself and does whatever she wants...a free spirit you could say. Golightly is constatnly surrouned by men and when she is approached by them she rejects them....except for one.
What I find interesting is that this woman is portrayed as she is and has to fight against men to get what she wants.
I plan to analyze this film and apply the femist theory yet also keeping in mind that it was in fact written by a man and also finding parts of the film where it is evident.