Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Englisch -
Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,0, Technische Universitat Dresden
(Institut fur Anglistik / Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung:
Outstanding Film Directors, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Watching
Jane Campion's The Piano, the spectator is taken on an
anthropological excursion to New Zealand in the middle of the 19th
century. So the movie is set in a Victorian temporal context, and
we become witnesses of the arrival of the first European settlers,
mostly from England and Scotland. Ada, the protagonist, is an
obviously disturbed woman since she has stopped talking at the age
of six and even she herself doesn't know why. The spectator sees
him- or herself fascinated about Ada's mysterious and unusual
character as much as about her extraordinarily strong will. Without
her consent, she has been married to Stewart, a colonizer living in
New Zealand, and now she has to leave Scotland and travel to the
unknown country. The movie begins when she and her daughter Flora
arrive at New Zealand's shore. The Piano features a fair amount of
aspects worth to be analyzed. What appears to be the movie's
central role and all-determining, however, is the presentation of
gender roles and the wide range of issues that are related to it.
Therefore, this paper is going to draw attention to how The Piano
demonstrates its characters' gender identity, sexuality and ways of
communicating. For this purpose, it will be important to analyze
how the movie reflects the 19th century definition of gender and
sexuality and how it has been influenced by the invention of the
art of photography, which has often been discussed in
psychoanalytic theory. This view on gender roles self-evidently has
a substantial effect on Ada's relationships towards her daughter
Flora and towards Stewart and Baines, the men who are both courting
her, which will also be examined. What is equally significant for
the understanding of sexual identity during that time, however, is
the
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