Buffy the Vampire Slayer Questions

Year 10 English

Term 1 – Representations of women –

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Episode 22 Season 7 ‘Chosen’

In analyzing the representation of women in a text, you should consider the following questions.

1.     What do/ does she look like? Pay particular attention to the question of whether she is considered beautiful/ physically attractive? Is she young?

2.     What qualities are valued in women in the text?

 

3.     What aspects of the text challenge the traditional representation you identified in your fairy tale?

 

4.     How is the message presented to us? Consider the positioning techniques discussed at the beginning of the term.(Character(Buffy in particular), costume, camera angles, dialogue etc)

 

5.     How are men presented in this text? (Consider power, hero, villain etc)

 

6.     Who has power in this text? Why do they have power?

     7.     Consequences: Who is rewarded? How? Who is punished? How?

     8.   How are women represented in this episode?