Masculinity Essays

The American adaptation of The Office reinforces various stereotypes found in the workplace through humor. This sitcom follows the daily lives of the employees at the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The whole point of the show is to satirize the culture of the business world. Although …

Feminism only recently became an accepted idea, but it even still faces criticism. However, in the Elizabethan time period, feminism was unheard of; the idea that women were equal to men would be nothing more than a joke. Women were treated as lesser and even objects compared to men, and …

Issues revolving around the position of masculinity and femininity are prevalent in almost all societies, theatrical or real, and thus it is not surprising to find that the realist work of Ibsen, A Doll’s House and the tragic work of Anouilh, Antigone, share these issues. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, set …

Masculinity is a very important subject in the play. Arthur Miller uses the three main male characters to show masculinity, whether it’s through actions, or through words. Eddie, Marco and Rodolpho have different views on masculinity, and these change throughout the course of the play, as does their masculinity, which …

‘Death of a Salesman’, ’Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ and ‘The Glass Menagerie’ are three American domestic dramas in the style of Ibsen and Strindberg that attempt to explore the idea of masculinity in America in the mid twentieth century. Masculinity in the time of the plays’ creation was defined …

Soccer, which is also known as football in many countries around the world, is the most popular sport in the world. According to Sudgen and Tomlinson Soccer, compromises many countries’ national sport which provides a key site for the re/production of traditional forms of aggression and masculinity at an international …

Australian voices The text ‘’The story of Tom Brenna’’ by J. C. Burke deals with many of the issues facing today’s youth such as perceptions of what constitutes masculinity ,the transition between childhood and adolescence, and the influences of peer-pressure and alcohol . It tells the story of the central …

“Dance is a manly sport…” (Jowitt, 2010, p.231), said Ted Shawn, a distinguished forerunner of modern dance. Male modern dancers have been fighting for their masculinity in dance for ages. They have arduously exerted to characterize dance as a worthy profession for men through press reports and hype enthused (Jowitt, …

Norman Mailer once said, “Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor” (Mailer). He is saying that the honor of being masculine is not just handed to one on a silver platter, but is rightfully earned, much …

Matars protagonist, the young Suleiman in the novel ‘In the country of men’ is essentially bewildered about what it means to be a man in the Libya of his youths. Receiving conflicting messages about the meaning of true masculinity and various impressions of what it means to be a man …