Friday, January 27, 2012
Focus-Topic-Thesis #1
Topic: Lisbeth Slander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Focus: Why gender is a limiting factor for female heroines and how Lisbeth is a so called “gender outlaw”.
Thesis: Steig Larsson’s bestselling series “The Millennium Trilogy” revolves around the lives of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. Lisbeth is a woman with a mind of her own who has suffered terrible abuse at the hands of people, who raped, neglected, tortured, mistreated, and ridiculed her. Lisbeth’s struggle in life as a woman mistreated by men has led her to become, or try to become, the neutral androgynous gender. Her departure from the “traditional” female heroine is both empowering and haunting as she fights society’s conceptions and those who try to force her into submission.
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I think that your concept is really interesting and your thesis is going to lead to a very intriguing and different paper. I think its important that you sort of decide what this androgynous gender is that she has created because to me it is a little unclear. I really really like it though!!
ReplyDeleteI guess the only question I have is what happens when she becomes this gender? How does it affect her and society? Would you say shes changing society in a good way? Is she leading way to a whole new gender to be continued?