Representation structure: What is representation? Representation is a re-presentation. By who? For what purpose? For what function? For what ideal? Who does this impact upon? Both the target audience and the group being represented Most female roles throughout the first episode are where the female is the giver/server. For example, there are roles of the mother, caregiver, prostitute, made, butler, friend, slave, rebel. This means that there are quite narrow representations of women. Madonna/Whore complex - Sigmund Freud Freud developed a theory to explain men's anxiety towards women's sexuality, suggesting that men define women into on of two categories: the Madonna (Women he admires and respects) and the whore (women he is attracted to and therefore disrespects). The Madonna is typically virtuous, nurturing, saintly and sexually repressed. The whore is sensual, sexualised and desirable without purity. This can be used in Humans - the mother is clearly the Mad...
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