Gender is represented throughout this extract through the
use of language. Professor Chadwick immediately appears to be the dominant character
in this text. We know this as the title ‘professor’ indicates that he has high
qualifications meaning he is well educated. When he is speaking strong language
is used like ‘he demanded’, this shows that he is more superior to the others
as he is able to put them under pressure and give them commandments.
Penny another character in the novel says ‘Where do you want
me, Professor Chadwick?’ This sounds like a sexual innuendo which may have been
intentional. She uses the second person pronoun ‘you’ to involve him, this
almost makes Penny a possession which is stereotypical as men are normally seen
to be in charge of women.
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