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Tropes In Jennifers Body

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Jennifer’s Body, to some people, can be looked at as a joke or as a film that slightly changed the horror genre with its different way of story telling . This film took certain tropes and flipped them in order to make the audience think differently about how women are portrayed in horror films. It is very common in horror films to see a woman as a damsel in distress or as the final girl that somehow survives the mass killing. However, there are classic tropes that are inserted in this film like the pretty girl has a best friend that is less pretty than her. Their friendship is put to the test when something strange happens to Jennifer because her sexuality was questioned and she becomes a hot demonic creature. Jennifer’s Body can be seen agreeing with the statement that female sexuality is monstrous by how the female characters become fleshed out …show more content…

One way that Jennifer’s Body shows female sexuality is monstrous is how it compares to the female sexuality shown in The Exorcist. In both films, there is an underlying subject of abjection that can explain how their female sexuality is reflected as monstrous. Both of the main characters in each film become possessed by an evil power that causes them to wreak havoc on those around them. How they each become possessed and how they inflict pain on others is different, but they are both using their possession as a crutch to blame for their actions. According to The Monstrous Feminine, “Possession becomes the excuse for legitimizing a display of aberrant feminine behavior which is depicted as depraved, monstrous, abject, and perversely appealing.” In The Exorcist, Regan uses her possession in order to get back at or punish her mother for being an atheist. While in Jennifer’s Body, Jennifer uses her possession as a way to stay alive because if she has not eaten she will become weak and easier to kill. In order to stay alive and healthy she feeds on the young guys

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