'Fawlty Towers' and 'The Beano' comparison

Within ‘Fawlty Towers’ the audience are presented with a female character, the female character represents a traditional, middle class elegant woman because she is in the kitchen most of the time. The housewife represents many women of the 1970s because she has a passive royal in society and is being delegated by the male to go back into the kitchen. This emphasises on the aspect that ‘Fawlty Towers’ represents the idea of a patriarchal society because the man has all power for, he stands at the front desk of the hotel and accompanies the guests. The idea of a patriarchal society is shown through the comic strip of ‘The Beano’ because within the first few captions there is a male teacher who educates his class whom, majority are boys.

Within ‘The Beano’ there is a battle between how appearance is reflected through the perception of others. Within the ‘The Beano’ there is two female characters one whom can be classified as a ‘ladette’ a girl who behaves like a boy and secondly, you have the pretty feminine girl whom is into her beauty and appearance. ‘Ladettes’ are females whom have the quality of males and rather dress a certain way to gain authority and statue within society- many feminists would suggests ‘ladettes’ are a new form of girl power because they are going for males jobs and becoming stronger and more dominate. The ‘ladette’ girl in ‘The Beano’ is seen as the final girl because she is the one who exposes the pretty girl to be blind- because she is flirtatious to a not so good-looking boy. The battle between females is part of their female intuition because it is like a competition to see who is more pretty and who will actually last between the boys.

‘The Beano’ is situated in a school, the hypodermic needle suggests that whatever an audience sees on any type of media they would emulate therefore, the ideologies being drip fed to the readers of ‘ The Beano’ is the theme of education. Educational factors are also, present within ‘Fawlty Towers’ because the main man is talking about the Great War and how the Germans were defeated – the historical contexts adds parody to the Great War which has an entertaining factor to the audience how they are indoctrinated to listen to the historical knowledge being portrayed to them.