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Nevertheless, her mental struggle spurs several diegetic outcomes in the twenty-one seasons of the TV series. Since The Simpsons is a sitcom whose protagonists’ personalities necessarily remain unchanged throughout the episodes, Marge is and will continue to be the perfect family woman, who tries to morally improve her household but whose attempts are invariably frustrated. These circumstances cause a private conflict in the woman, because she emotionally feels the opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible states, namely, her desire to construct her identity as an ideal traditional homemaker, wife and mother on the one hand, and the weird nature and behaviour of her husband, children and neighbours on the other hand. In fact, she is optimistic and idealistic, two characteristics which are commonly strained by her children and particularly by her unsentimental husband, since, for instance, she would wish for more care and affection than prosaic Homer is willing or able to provide.
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Homer marg code#
1 See, for instance, the ninth episode of the first season, "Life on the Fast Lane" (production code (.)ģ At least two of Marge’s personal features seem to urge her on to perform as the model conventional homemaker in the Simpsons’ odd household.In my article, I analyse the figure of Marge from a different viewpoint, and I discuss not the social and cultural contradictions incarnated in the dramatis persona of the woman, but a more private conflict which that dramatis persona experiences. Hence, according to Henry, the woman embodies the cultural conflicts of contemporary femininity mainly in the contradiction which she feels between the private and the public, between the home and a possible job and career outside the home. Therefore, the female dramatis persona of Marge discursively sustains, that is to say, performs, a gendered identity which is based on clichés about female nature, and which preserves and supports the status quo in women-men relations and in mother-children relations.Ģ In his article on feminism, female identity and The Simpsons, Henry (284) defines Marge as a "liminal lady", and explains his definition of the woman as follows: "More than any other character, Marge exists ‘betwixt and between’ social categories, behaviors and spaces, and she embodies the ambivalence that still exists regarding female identity and its relation to the public and private spheres". The female figure of Marge embodies the stereotypical (sitcom) mainstream homemaker, wife and mother, typified by wisdom and patience with her weird family, by morality and a desire to maintain order at home and in her town, Springfield (in an unknown US state).
Homer marg series#
Top of pageġ Marge Simpson, one of the main characters of the American animated TV series The Simpsons, produced by Fox since 1989 (Alberti 2003, Gray 2006), is a beautiful homemaker in her mid-thirties, Homer’s wife and Bart, Lisa and Maggie’s mother. En effet, bien qu’ils soient stéréotypiques, et bien qu’ils soient aussi parodiés dans la série télévisée, les traits de caractère de Marge contribuent à représenter la femme non pas comme le chef d’une famille parfaite, mais comme un personnage féminin positif et constructif.
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Bien que la construction linguistique d’une famille modèle que Marge propose dans le texte de sa lettre soit démentie au niveau visuel et au niveau du discours dans la scène, son autoreprésentation linguistique comme un personnage féminin traditionnel n’est pas complètement niée par les signaux paralinguistiques et non linguistiques dans la même scène.
Homer marg plus#
Dans cet article, j’analyse l’épisode pilote (1989) de la série télévisée, en particulier la scène où Marge écrit une lettre de vœux pour Noël aux amis de la famille, et où son conflit privé est le plus remarquable mon étude se fonde sur les cadres théoriques et les méthodologies de la linguistique féministe et des études féministes sur les médias. L’identité féminine de Marge Simpson, un des personnages principaux de la série télévisée d’animation américaine Les Simpson, est construite sur un conflit privé : elle souffre de l’opposition entre deux situations simultanées mais incompatibles, c’est-à-dire entre son désir d’incarner une femme au foyer, épouse et mère idéale d’un côté, et de l’autre la nature et le comportement bizarres de son mari, de ses enfants et de ses voisins.