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Men/ women. Laura/ Anita. Cyborgs/ humans. feminist theory- madona and whore- anita and niska. USE EVIDENCE- reference to a key scene.

According to Claude Levi Strauss, texts convey their meanings through a system of binary oppositions. Evaluate this structuralist theory. refer to "Humans".


The use of binary oppositions in humans is important. In particular there is one binary opposition in Humans that dominates all the others. This is the feminist theory about the whore and the madonna. This theory implies that a whore is a female that heterosexual males desire but due to her sexual history she is seen is unclean. The madonna on the other had, references to the virgin Mary. Males see her as innocent and clean however, there is a lack of sexual desire for the madonna due to her lack of sexual history. This theory links in with humans as there is a binary opposition between two of the character who are both cyborgs- Anita and Niska. Anita is seen as the Madonna in the first episode. This is encoded through the mise-en-scene of her outfit in the scene where there is a long shot angle of her standing in the kitchen, where she is shown wearing a long, plain blue dress. The colour of her dress is often associated with purity and cleanliness. The shape of her dress doesn't show off her body, making her unsexualised. Her outfit is similar to one that could be worn by someone from a religious background which further supposts the idea that Anita is the madona. However, there is a binary opposition between her and Niska, as Niska is seen as the "whore". This ideology is cultivated through the performance. This is evident in the scene from Humans where she is in the brothel, a man appears and tell her to kneel down and take off her clothes as she obeys without question. To the audience, this behaviour is related to the baviour shown by a "whore" as she shows little self respect or is to scared to speak up fro herself so she just listens to the man. This idea taht Niska is the "whore" is also represented through the mise-en-scene of her costume. In the brothel scene, she is shown wearing tight, recveling clothes. Her outfit is used to sexualise her and possible pleasure a heterosexual male audience, which is the same role a whore undertakes. The camera angles used in this scene also emphasise Niska's sexual nature as there are many mid/ close up shots of her, mainly her outfit and her skin, furtger sexalusising her. Tjis is in binary opposition with the camera angles used on Anita in the kitchen scene, where theres a long shot of her standing in trhe kitchen. The shot captures her whole body and face, giving her importance as her face is shown the whole time

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