Representation of Women and Cyborgs

AUTONOMY - having control over your own life
AUTOMATON - a robot which is controlled by someone else

Representation is used to show something again, often the way something is represented is chosen by the producer. This emits and ideology to the audience. They are manipulating the audience to think in a certain way, and challenges what the audience normally thinks. The ideology will slowly grow within the audience and cultivate their own beliefs.

What roles do 'synths' and women play in Humans?

  • slaves
  • cleaners
  • prostitutes
  • workers
  • mother
  • housewife
  • children
  • a friend or companion
  • professionals
Early on in the episode, the young girl says to her father, "I hope she's pretty", and this adds to the element of Anita being almost like a doll, and the young girl wants to aspire to be like her. She also wants to have something she can show off like a pretty posession.


The Closing Montage - 
  • both Anita and Laura show affection towards the child, motherly, as shown by the mid shots of them both looking over the child
  • the husband plainly says "we're not taking her back" and shows his patriarchal authority, and at the start of the episode he is doing the housework however Anita is used to bring back his authority and his more manly role
  • the sex worker is ordered by the male and does as he asks which is patriarchal
  • Anita clearly yearns for a maternal connection
  • the audience is forced to look the prostitute synth in the eyes, which makes the audience uncomfortable as we can see how she is trying her hardest to control her emotions
  • when the little girl is taken, we as an audience know it is wrong however we want to know why Anita is so happy with the child (hermeneutic code)
  • the mise-en-scene of the toy creates a proairetic code
  • symbolism of the toy is that the girl is taken from her family and loses them
  • two women are being exploited in this, Anita being controlled by the family and the prostitute controlled by the man
  • the news show implies that the synths have no feelings, and this seems to remove Anita's emotions form her actions - she takes the child and seems to have no guilt or remorse and seems to have no motive
MADONNA / WHORE COMPLEX
- the madonna, traditionally, is a statue which is based from the virgin Mary from the bible, and represents virginity and chastity, they are typically nurturing, saintly and sexually repressed
- whores are sexually promiscuous and connotes to something dirty and disgusting, often a prostitute, and are sexualised
- devised by Sigmund Freud, and what he theorises is that men will judge women and define them through these two categories, if they are a 'madonna' they will admire and respect her and if she is a 'whore' he is more anxious about her and does not respect her



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