Timed Essay Question 6
Stranger Things and The Walking Dead both represent gender, age and class in a way that would appeal to their target audience to encourage them to continue watching. Stranger Things represents gender in a very different way to traditional views. This is achieved through the way that Eleven’s character is presented. In the first episode, Eleven is shown to have powers and is able to take down men that were trying to capture her. This shows that she is a strong female lead who contradicts the idea of gender theory where females are presented to be either domestic, marital, sexual or consumers. However, in the Walking Dead, Carol’s character first begins off very weak with an abusive husband (shows her to be marital and domestic), and then as her character develops throughout various seasons, she becomes very independent and is involved in resolving a lot of the disruptions (narrative structure). This is very similar to Eleven as they both go against the stereotypical viewpoint of w