We are one, other and the same : the need for alter egos in the perfection-obsessed world of Mildred Pierce and Black Swan.

• Main Author: Shereen Naaz Charles Syariff.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45880
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Over the years, women have been subjected to a myriad of expectations. Women were not allowed to act as they wanted to or be whoever they wanted to be. Instead, they had to conform, mostly, to a patriarchal society’s expectations of them. In a bid to be who they wanted to be, my paper examines the i...