![]() The whole movie seems to deal with Bridget’s development into a better woman by conforming to social expectations and media representations. The norms in turn influence identity formation among the people, which is an important element of Bridget Jones’s Diary. The symbolic violence can be seen as the hegemonic power to impose an idea of norms on the rest of society. Symbolic violence, a violence that is hardly noticed, almost invisible for the victims on whom it is perpetrated a violence which is exercised principally via the purely symbolic channels of communication and knowledge (or, to be accurate, mis-knowledge) of recognition and, in the final analysis, of feelings. According to Bourdieu, this hegemonic position leads to In Western society, just considering gender, not class, traditionally white men are the dominant group. Gramsci defines hegemony as the domination of one group in society over another (Stillo 1999). Secondly, I will evaluate the role of the feminine gaze and objectification of Cleaver and Darcy. ![]() On the basis of these concepts, I will discuss masculinity and femininity in the movie, comparing the leading men Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), and the heroine Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) with the seemingly perfect Natasha. In this essay, firstly, I would like to introduce various concepts of identity formation, including hegemony, discursive formation and invented categories. Her following even grew when the 2001 motion picture was released. ![]() In 1996, Bridget Jones’s Diary was published and its sympathetic heroine became an identification figure for many women.
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