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THE DEVIL WEARS

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Would you like to be

an assistant of a
celebrity? Who will it
be and why?
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What are you willing to do to

achieve your dreams? Will
you be willing to sacrifice
your principles for the sake
of your dreams?
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Class
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Ideology
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THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Freytag ’s p y r a m id
 Exp os i t i o n

Andrea Sachs, a simple

and naive recent
journalism graduate, is
employed as Miranda
Priestly's second assistant
in New York.
Andrea changes her attitude and
behavior, affecting her private life
and her relationship with her
boyfriend, her family and friends.
She also needs to inform Emily that
Miranda has chosen Andrea to
accompany her to a fashion show in
Paris. whether she’ll tell to Emily or
risk losing her job.

RISING
 C L I MA X
Andrea got her senses that
everything has changed in her life. A
realization of how her social world
changed when she works as
Miranda's assistant. How her social
world had dwindled to only
Miranda.
 She abandons Priestly
and
reconnects to her
boyfriend. Thus, she
realizes that there
are
things more important
in
life.

FALLING AC T I ON
 RE S OL UT I ON

Andrea gets back in New

York, she carves out a new
path for herself and frees
herself from the temptation
that Miranda offers.
SETTING
CHA R A C T E RS
 MEANGIRL
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Critical Issues in the 21 Century

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THE DEVIL WEARS

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“To be yourself in a world
that is constantly trying to
make you something else is
the greatest
accomplishment.”
 IDE OLO GY
♥ A system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms
the basis of economic or political theory and policy.

♥ It can be interpreted as type of a “False

Consciousness” but this itself is a misperception since
it assumes that there is a “True” Consciousness out
there that we only need to imbibe in order to get the
heart of reality.

♥ Is made of a set of existing images, discourses and

ideas that allows us to imagine
 IDE OL O GY
The Devil Wears Prada reinforces the
ideology that women should not
pursue career goals if the career
takes away time from crucial figures
of the patriarchy: family, friends, and
partners.
 The Germ an Id e ol og y
• Karl Marx and Frederick Engel’s
Considered history from a
materialist perspective as opposed
to the idealists worldview
propagated.
• Marx and Engel held that human
lives are ultimately governed by
their material conditions.
 Class

Class
a set or category of things having
some property or attribute in
common and differentiated from
others by kind, type, or quality.
 Socia l C l a ss
Social Class refers to divisions in
society based on economic and social
status. People in the same social
class typically share a similar level
of wealth, educational achievement,
type of job and income.
• In Ian Watt's landmark study of the
Raise of Novels; Realism and Novel's
Form(1956), the author traces the
emergence of realism as an
exemplary form, the novel, to the
rise of the middle class in 18th
century England.

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• According to him, Capitalism as made of
production made possible the burgeoning of
prose narrative that involves into a realistic
novel.
• Louise Althusser, a French Critic who
reworked the main ideas of Marx, coins the
term interpellation

❑ Interpellation.refers to the operation by

which ideology assigns the individual
human being an identity as a subject
 Interpella ti ng t he F em al e

♥ Most popular genres for girls romance novels chick lit.

♥ The Task of Cultural Critique, Marxist critic Teresa
Ebert note that romance era,conspicuously, narratives
that operate on female fantasies about love, sex
andmarriage.

♥ Ebert claims that the genre is more ironic than its

predecessor in that it rejects the sentimental quality
of romances.
 Q ue s ti on?

What do you think is the

ideology of Miranda?
How is Miranda the voice
of the Feminist society?
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Andy as the voice of

the patriarchal
society?
 AC T IV IT Y

Are you willing to go to any extent if your boss

ordered you to do something you didn't want to do
just to keep your job, as Andrea did? Why or why
not?

Do you think that a successful professional life

is compatible with a successful personal life?
Rubric
 A ssi gn m e nt

For your assignment(20

points), write an essay about
your ideologies and how it
affects your daily life.
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