Gender Roles
The lack of definition in gender roles is central to a major body of Hitchcock’s oevre. Hitchcock usually incorporated the aforementioned theme to the mother-son relationships as seen in: Psycho, North By Northwest, Strangers on a Train, and as well as in Notorious. But, it is in Notorious that this Hitchcock-narrative-staple of undefined gender roles are to appear twice. To elaborate, what I mean to suggest is that the same character traits are overtly expressed in not only in the debonair-Nazi-antagonist, but also sublimely in both of Notorious’ lead roles played by Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Devlin’s exterior typifies stereotypical male behaviorisms such as toughness, which is a staple of the leading male (i.e. Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra) from the Hollywood films of this era. He also personifies cynicism. This remains overtly clear in his inability to profess his love to Alicia, paradoxically being the driving force in the couple’s romance. Conversely, Alicia’s façade of cynical behavior is slightly more difficult to pinpoint in terms of the cinema. Her cynical exterior may be attributed to her father’s entanglement with the law, giving her false justification to her treatment of males. Or, it may be indebted
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Approximate Word count = 2380
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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