GENDER TSOTSI ESSAY

GENDER:

DUE 3RD APRIL (BEGINNING OF LESSON)

Traditionally, in Afrikaan culture women are seen to be responsible for the homestead and their main role is to bare children. Discuss the representation of male and female characters in ‘Tsotsi’ and explain how their roles are divided.

1. explain when we first meet miriam, she is wearing orange clothing and has a baby strapped around her. women in the neighbourhood are queuing for water. 

1. MEN ARE SEEN AS PROVIDERS. EXPLAIN HOW THEY CAN BE PERCEIVED AS ‘BREADWINNERS’ DESPITE THE FACT THEY’RE CRIMINALS. 

1. EXPLAIN WHEN WE FIRST MEET TSOTSI’S FAMILY - HOW DO HIS FATHER AND MOTHER DIFFER? 

1. TSOTSI FORCES MIRIAM TO FEED THE BABY, HOW DOES HE SEE HER AS INSIGNIFICANT IN COMPARISON TO HIM?

1. EXPLAIN THE LAST SCENE WHEN WE SEE PUMLA IN A WHEELCHAIR. DESPITE HER HANDICAP JOHN IS THE INSTRUMENTAL IN RETRIEVING BACK THE BABY. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS?