Analysis Of Schindler s List, And Benigni s Life Is...

Throughout history, a very small amount of women have made their way into myths, and legend as heroes rather they are portrayed as the seductress, or some other secondary character. Even today, we still live in a male dominated society, where women are still being underrepresented, and even misrepresented. While there are many works of art that have women as the main subject, they are often depicted as mothers, victims, sexual beings, or shown as pure, and innocent. We rarely get to see women playing the dominant roles. Holocaust art works are no stranger to this theme. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting how females are depicted in Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and Benigni’s Life is Beautiful. While the Oscar nominated movies, Schindler’s List and Life is Beautiful, both fail to represent women in the spotlight as main characters, each movie seem to choose different ways and use different techniques to depict women. In Schindlerâ€⠄¢s List, the portrayal of women are the stereotypical passive women quite the opposite to Life is Beautiful where we see more dominant and independent women. It is clear from the beginning that both movies are told from a male perspective. We start off with Schindler’s wife, Emilie Schindler, played by Caroline Goodall. In the movie she is portrayed as a filial wife who comes to Germany to be with her womanizing husband. We can see from her actions that she a very patient woman who loves Schindler unconditionally, even as he