Failures at Conventional Married Life Failures in Wooing the Feminine Women in The Tramp and One Week essays

Failures at Conventional Married Life Failures in Wooing the Feminine Women in The Tramp and One Week essays Both Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are often heralded as cinematic comedic pioneers. However, in both of these comedian's short films, entitled "The Tramp" and "One Week," each comedian makes use of common stereotypes of women, and also of common stereotypes of romantic relationships between men and women, to illustrate their comedic creations' personality deviations from the conventional masculine roles of domestic success. Both men in the two films function as failures in the domestic realm. This parallels their failures in conventional life and successes at comedic life. At the end of both films, rejections of conventional domesticity and the feminine become symbolic of these men's failures at conventional, masculine life, but also of their success in the world-upside down comedic, even heroic realm, of unconventional physical prowess and This is not to deny the groundbreaking efforts of both comedians. Surely, one of the seminal works of early comedy cinema is undoubtedly Charlie Chaplin's 1915 short film "The Tramp" because of its introduction of Chaplin's famous persona, The Little Tramp. As is indicative of the film's title, this story sets the tone and theme of almost all of the films Chaplin's major comedic character was to appear in. In this particular film, the tramp's first incarnation is that of a hobo who finds love by the side of a road. There is a strong association in the film between food, femininity, and the central protagonist's desire to find a place in a world. For instance, at the beginning of the short,' another tramp-like character, only a vicious one, tricks Chaplin's character into giving up his only sandwich for a brick. Because of this, the tramp must eat grass. But because of the tramp's willingness to trust he finds a more permanent source of sustenance. When the deceitful tramp tries to take advantage of a farmer's daughte...