Saturday, April 6, 2013

Extra Credit blog #4 question #6

As we were watching the Oleanna class, we got to learn a lot about our characters Carol and John. John who is a professor at a university comes in contact with Carol who is one of his students. Carol comes into his office with a problem of failing his class and she is seeking for some guidance and understanding. As the film continues I began to dislike Carol due to the fact the he was rude to her professor the whole time while he was trying to explain to her and make her understand what was going on. He also had other proprieties with his family that he had to get to, but he decided to help her. Looking at Carols character, I do not see her as being a Feminist,or even being a role model. Although my views on Feminist are different, relating to the film, I see someone as a role model if they are setting a good example, and are strong willed. As Carol is a strong willed and determined person, the way she comes off to the professor is rude and arrogant and just trying to get what she wants, which is to pass his class. She is constantly asking "what" and "why" to everything the professor is saying and at times doesn't even let him finish his thought. By her expression, you can tell that Carol gets overwhelmed very easily and tends to come off as a pain and overall rude person.

1 comment:

  1. I thought that Carols interrupting was more of a lack of social skills than purposefully trying to be rude. I hard similar comments to this in class, people thought she was very disrespectful. But it seemed to me that John interrupted and failed to listen to her just as much. Does being a teacher give someone the right to be impolite more so than being a student does? Does a teacher innately deserve respect or should it have to be earned?
    I don't disagree with your dislike and critique of Carol, I just felt like John was also deserving of some as well. They both drove me nuts!

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