ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thomas Malory, Two-Face, Courtly Love
3 Feb 2017
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Operating at night rather than in light of day. Batman walks a fine line between crime fighter and vigilante (someone who needs to be gotten rid of) Knights more complicated than the cartoon version of knights. Harvey dent = idealist desires to be hero, but gets dirty fighting crime. Desire for justice might turn into a desire for revenge. Knight = chivalrous, strong, defender of the weak, rescue the damsel in distress, honorable, virtuous, brave. Gender: the perceived identities man and woman and the range of characteristics commonly associated with masculinity and femininity. Biological sex equated with gender and how your meant to behave = essentialism (socially constructed. More comfortable with gender as a social construction and expectation to how youre supposed to behave nowadays. How masculinity and femininity changes across cultures and time periods. Hegemonic masculinity = a range of ways to be masculine but one of them has become dominant within a culture.
