Research Paper

*Concept Of Feminism In The Movie "THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN "

ABSTRACT 

                                    Women in piracy is near to the word impossible. Though there are many females who were a part of piracy. Feminism is on its pick in the topic of piracy. Participation of women in sheep or piracy is not well received  in history. Feminism means, the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the quality of the sexes. Here is the definition of feminism from oxford dictionary:

                                   "The  belief and aim that women should have same rights and opportunities as men."

                              While piracy was predominantly a male occupation, a minority of pirates were women.On many ships, women (as well as young boys) were prohibited by the ship's contract, which all crew members were required to sign. Because of the resistance to allowing women on board, many female pirates did not identify themselves as such. Anne Bonny,  for example, dressed and acted as a man while on Captain Calico Jack's ship. She and Mary Read, another female pirate, are often identified as being unique in this regard.

                             During the Golden Age of Piracy, many men had to leave home to find employment or set sail for economic reasons. This left women with the responsibilities of taking on traditionally male roles and filling the jobs that were left behind. The need for women to fill these roles led them to be granted rights that had historically been exclusive to men. Women were allowed to trade, own ships, and work as retailers. Often they were innkeepers or ran alehouses. In some seaside towns, laws were even written to allow widows to keep their husbands' responsibilities and property.

                                Women sometimes became pirates themselves, though they tended to have to disguise themselves as men in order to do so. Pirates did not allow women onto their ships very often. Additionally, women were often regarded as bad luck among pirates. It was feared that the male members of the crew would argue and fight over the women. 

                                Pirates of the caribbean movie is Set in the late seventeenth century Caribbean Sea, the story features a villainous band of cursed and undead pirates (i.e. Captain Barbossa and his crew), who ravage the British colony, Port Royal, and kidnap the governor's daughter (Elizabeth Swann). The movie itself has many female character in it. 

KEY WORDS :

Feminism

Piracy

Women 

Pirates 

INTRODUCTION :

While piracy was predominantly a male occupation, a minority of pirates were women.On many ships, women (as well as young boys) were prohibited by the ship's contract, which all crew members were required to sign. Because of the resistance to allowing women on board, many female pirates did not identify themselves as such. Anne Bonny,  for example, dressed and acted as a man while on Captain Calico Jack's ship. She and Mary Read, another female pirate, are often identified as being unique in this regard.

 During the Golden Age of Piracy, many men had to leave home to find employment or set sail for economic reasons. This left women with the responsibilities of taking on traditionally male roles and filling the jobs that were left behind. The need for women to fill these roles led them to be granted rights that had historically been exclusive to men. Women were allowed to trade, own ships, and work as retailers. Often they were innkeepers or ran alehouses. In some seaside towns, laws were even written to allow widows to keep their husbands' responsibilities and property.

Women sometimes became pirates themselves, though they tended to have to disguise themselves as men in order to do so. Pirates did not allow women onto their ships very often. Additionally, women were often regarded as bad luck among pirates. It was feared that the male members of the crew would argue and fight over the women. 

    Pirates of the caribbean movie is Set in the late seventeenth century Caribbean Sea, the story features a villainous band of cursed and undead pirates (i.e. Captain Barbossa and his crew), who ravage the British colony, Port Royal, and kidnap the governor's daughter (Elizabeth Swann). The movie itself has many female character in it. 

                                

  Pirates Of The Caribbean movie has many female characters in it. This movie shows every female character on a good terms. The list of female character in the movie is under here:

                ELIZABETH SWANN

                        TIA DALMA

                         ANAMARIA

                             SYRENA

                        SOCIETY LADY

                              ESTRELLA

                           CARINA SMITH

                              ANGELICA

                  ELIZABETH SWANN

Elizabeth swann appears in 3 parts of the movie. She introduced as protagonist and heroin in first part of the movie. Swann displayed intelligence, wit, cunning and weaponry skill, her role as pirate, leader and king was ultimately overshadowed by her role as lover, beauty and potential wife. She ended up in a very traditional place at the end of the third film–as wife and mother awaiting the return of her beloved husband, Will Turner. Heroin shows bravery in the movie. The girl goes to other sheep for rescue her lover Turner. Elizabeth Swann sang about pirates song. Mr.gibbs forbad her andconclused that the song could in5ite pirates to come. Then he said to hislieutenant /bad luck to have a woman on board, too. Even a miniature one. It shows like women will never be a usefull person on a boat. In a hard situation,women can not do anything Moreover, maybe they will must make muchtroubles. It seems such a big mistake then the lieutenant let her there. t truely holds marxist feminism in which disision of labor is related ith men that is stronger than women.

            ANAMARIA AND TIA DALMA

                           

  Other female characters from Pirates suffer from stereotypical depictions as well. Anamaria, the black female pirate captain, was sidelined in the first film and disappeared from the 2nd and 3rd.  Replacing anamaria is Tia Dalma, the stereotypical, animalized black woman of come-hither seductiveness from the 2nd film. Tia Dalma, the human incarnation of the goddess Calypso  and even more problematic character. Tia has been bound in human form by Tia's  human lover Davy Jones as revenge for Tia's  failure to keep their scheduled tryst. As Tia's justification, she says, it's my nature." This implies that this powerfulfemale being is bound by girl's  nature, denying her agency and justifying nones's actions, a virtualenslavement that prevents her from acting according to her own desires. -normously powerful, capable of controlling the seas and storms, the goddess Calypso is represented as fickle, capricious, dangerous, andmotivated by revenge and jealousy. As such, she incarnates male fears of female power

 In On Stranger Tides, however, Cruz is depicted as being as pirate-capable as, and even more daring than, Sparrow. Indeed, in the scene that introduces girl , the girl has disguised herself as Sparrow, playing not only into the gender ambiguity of Sparrow’s character but also nodding towards the notion that “pirate-ness,” like masculinity or femininity, is a role that can be “played” by anyone. This is true to pirate history, in which several women disguised their sex/gender in order to lead the pirate life.

 According to Tracey McCormick, 

                          Female pirates, from the                                   3rd century BC to 

                            Elizabethan England,                                   roamed the seas as rulers, 

                      marauders and entrepreneurs.

                        ANGELICA

Angelica’s characters is less romantically focused than Elizabeth Swann’s and more in keeping with her real-life historical predecessors, such as Anne Bonney, Mary Read and Grace O’Malley.

 Sadly, the mermaids in the film, particularly the main mermaid Syrena, do not fair so well. As a group, the mermaids are your typical fish-tailed sexualized man killers and play only a very minor part. Syrena, the one mermaid with a meatier roll, is romantically paired with a Christian missionary who carries her once her tail turns to legs too weak to walk on.

 While Angelica is an improvement on Swann, the pirate life via a Disney lens is far from radically rewriting traditional gender scripts. Like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which still has not changed the “buy a wench for a bride” sign, the films are a long ways off from offering a feminist vision of the pirating world.

                                                                                 Beyond the characters discussed above, the series has a number of prostitutes, portrayed as lascivious, jealous, and quarrelsome, and a few singaporean servant girls, both killed during a battle between the pirates and the east india Trading Company in At World's End. 

CONCLUSION 

 In the series of Pirates Of The Caribbean viewers can observe  partiality between male and female. There is one scene where Jack Sparrow shocks after knowing that a female character also going to join them on journey. Jack and every males during that time believes that women is not allowed on the sheep. Another scene take place where Elizabeth hides in male's clothes as woman isn't allowed on the journey. Though the series mentioned many female characters in the movie. First, add a lot more female characters and integrate them into the POTC universe in an organic way, perhaps in one of the pirate crews. It would be preferable if those characters are not prostitutes or predatory supernatural beings. Second, give the female lead her own goals, untied to loving, protecting, or being subdued by the male characters. Third, give the female lead a conclusion that isn't tantamount to enforced domestication - both Elizabeth and Angelica end their respective story-lines stuck on a lonely beach awaiting their respective love interests. Fourth, have female characters that don't have any romantic story-lines, like the vast majority of the male characters.

                             Citation 

1) Natalia, Wilson. “Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Feminist Pirate's Life for Me.” 23 May 2011.

2) Ward-Vetrano, Gianna. “A Feminist Analysis of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’” A Feminist Analysis of "Pirates of the Caribbean", 1 Jan. 1970, http://www.unbearablebookishness.com/2014/09/a-feminist-analysis-of-pirates-of.html.

3) Dr. Smith. Psychology of Men, 2008.