India

A detailed Summary of India

Women are pieces of property and should be used as pleased. After watching the three films in class, this seems to be the underlying point and main concept for the two Indian films and has representation somewhat in the western movie, but a more in depth analysis of the pictures show many more ideas and concepts, and in fact woman as property may not be the main idea at all.

A more in depth analysis would seem to place gender roles and power, the most important issue in the films, and because of this, social control, and love and marriage are very important co ideas, that must be analyzed and talked about as well.

Gender roles and power would seem to go hand in hand, but in the films there was a conflict between the two. The male as it was portrayed seemed to be the more powerful of the two genders. Woman in all movies were treated as property, there was instances of rape, violence, and disrespect in all three movies. In the Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi was raped, beaten, and disowned by her own father. Kama Sutra had men controlling the two lives of Maya and Tara, and even in The Deceivers, Pierce Bronsen physically harms a woman and almost kills her. So it would seem that the male has the more power oriented role, bu

As gender roles and power seem to be the main concept of the stories, social control is the framework for gender roles and the acquisition of power. Without social control the main characters would not be in the position to acquire power. There lives were controlled by the class or caste they were born into, and because of the hardships they faced in their caste, they acquired power. Phoolan Devi was born into a low caste. Being female she was no use to her family so she was wed as soon as possible by her father, and because of this was raped at a young age and so started her life as the Bandit Queen. The same goes for Maya; a decision against a higher class caused for her to be exiled and so she became a student of the Kama Sutra. The Deceivers is more difficult to understand, again the western movie draws away from the other films in that a woman from a lower caste is trying to disvalue gender roles and acquire power, but in The Deceivers a man from a higher caste is trying to gain power from a woman goddess in a lower caste.

The role of love and marriage also seem to play a role in the three films, mostly because the two have nothing to do with each other in all three movies. The bandit queen as we all know is raped by her husband at in early age, but dose find true love, but never gets to marry her true love. In Kama Sutra the reason Maya is exiled, is because of the choice she makes not to marry a prince, because she dose not love him. Another prince falls in love with Maya and has her lov

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