Set It Off vs. Thelma and Louise
Set It Off vs. Thelma and Louise
1. How is sisterhood and loyalty established?
The women knowing each other since grade school and experiencing life’s heartaches and triumphs together establishes the sisterhood in Set If Off. The loyalty is established based on the women showing support to one another through their various heartaches and triumphs.
In Thelma and Louise, the two women established their sisterhood through their common bond of controlling men, restricting them from their desired adventures. The women established loyalty among one another by supporting each other through out their lives and actions. Louise supported Thelma by protecting her from a potential rape and accepting to live with what she had done.
8. How does the role of the white cop function in the narrative?
In Set It Off, the white cop is seen as the superior character in every scene he is in, causing the women to be inferior. The white cop also seems to enhance the ladies desires to get away and escape, which leads to the road journey. The white cop does this by being threatening and suffocating on the women’s space. This is very similar to the white cop in Thelma and Louise. The white cop in Thelma and Louise is also shown as superior because he represents the law and the termination of the women’s freedom, showing the women to be inferior when they are in a scene with him. When the women are not in a scene with the white cop, they act superior, similar to the female dominated scenes in Set It Off. The white cop in Thelma and Louise also seems to enhance the ladies desires to escape from the male dominated world they come from because they know that the white cop would be everything their husbands and boyfriends are: controlling and restricting.