Story

Act 1, Scence 1

Nicholas Blake is at work he is 6ft, quite manly man that owns a car company, he is married to Carolina Blake and has two children called Matt who is 3 years old and Lily who is one years old. he is wearing a black suit and his hair is nicely done with gel, he has a white shirt and a black tie. At the moment he is at work a client has walked over to him. she is wearing 5 inch heels, she is walking like she is on a cat walk. her leys are very tanned and she is wearing a black skirt (knee high) with a white kind of shirt that is tucked into her skirt her hair is a camerl brown, down and straightened. As she approaches Nicholas he stands up an goes over to talk to her.  

Nicholas: Good afternoon there, how may i help you? (with his hand out ready to shake hers, and a big grin, showing his white teeth)

Miss Stella Smith: Good afternoon (shaking his hand and returning the smile) i was looking for the brand new BMW X8.

Nicholas: Are BMW X8 are over here (pointing to the left of the car lot). If you would like to follow me (he starts to walok over to the cars).

He talks for a bit about the cars, she examines them.

Miss Stella Smith: Well you have a nice collection, very sexy like you (wnks at him and starts to laugh kind of girl like). here is my business card, (she gives it to him, he then gives his to her). I'll call you, you know to talk business, or maybe something else. (she starts to walk off)

Nicholas: Yeah, call me.  Strict business. (smiling at her, he watches her walk off, as she shakes her bum).

Scene 2

Nicholas is on his way home, when arriving, before getting out of the car he puts his wedding ring back on and enters the house. The time is 6:30pm. His wife Carolina Blake is in the kitchen putting the children there dinner, she is wearing a big baggy T-Shirt with black leggings, as she has been running around all day, taking Matt to nursery in the morning, coming home, cleaning everything, making lunch, picking Matt up. Then starting with dinner. She is hot and bothered and just wants to relax. Nicholas walks to the kitchen.

Nicholas: Couldn't you wait for me to come home, to start eating. (in an aggresive, angry tone of voice)

Carolina: The children have waited quite a long time, and they are going to sleep soon. You are about half hour late. (in an innocent and also annoyed tone of voice.)

He ignores her comment, washes his hands and sits to eat, everyone is silent whilst eating. When they finish eating Nicholas leaves his plate and goes to the leaving room, puts his feet up, puts the TV on and starts to read The Guardian Newspaper. Whilst Carolina is left at the table to tidy everything up and start to put the kids to sleep.

An hour later around 7:00PM, Carolina has just put the kids to sleep and comes to sit on the sofa, Where Nicholas is watching TV, as she opens the door he looks up and gives her a smile. she sits down and he starts to stare at her, she is watching the TV but can feel his eyes on her.

Nicholas:  Come and sit, a bit closer to me baby, haven't seen you all day. (patting the sofa and smiling)

She slowly moves over, next to him. She carries on watching TV. All of a sudden he grabs her face and squeezes her cheeks and starts to kis her face all over.

Carolina: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? (moving away from him, even thoug he still has hold of her face)

Nicholas: Can't you ever lighten up and have some fun, your so serious and boring.  (laughing right in her face and continues kissing all of her face).

She starts to shake, as she is scared. As she feels the last scars when the same thing happened.

Nicholas: Don't be scared baby, I will never hurt you. ( Re-tracing her scar on her face and stroking it as he lets go of her) AGAIN!!

Carolina: Going to make some tea. ( choking up on her words, as she holds back tears).

Nicholas: I don't want tea and nither do you. (becoming more serious)

Carolina: Well, I do.

He stares at her and she ignores his glaze and then he raises his hand and hits her. She shouts as the pain stricks her. And she runs out of the room.

Scence 3

The next morning, Nicholas leaves for work when he arrives, Miss Stella Smith is there she is waiting up against her sports car.

Miss Stella Smith: How long was I going to wait for you (going towards him)

Nicholas: Not that long.

He kisses her and one thing loads to another has he starts hisd affair with Stella. He receives a voice message, which is from Carolina saying:

I have had enough of your abusive behaviour, I am leaving you, i moving to Liverpool and taking the kids with me don't call or come and find me.

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How do they challenge dominant representations?

The way they challenge dominant representation is in this story the man is dominant he has the most control, for example over his wife but he is also tempted by a woman as well. Men are often though to be the dominant representation because they are big, strong and can fight better meaning they can have anything they want.

Why challenge dominant representations of gender?

The reason why you would challenge dominant representations of gender is because they are two types of gender male are seen to be strong and big and get what they want, whereas women are seen to be weak and have to either be sexy to tempt a male or powerful which most women are not.