Media representations in soap operas
Phil Mitchell is being represented as rough, aggressive, and a thug. This reinforces the stereotype of people from the east end being violent and aggressive. This representation is exaggerated because he's shown to resort to violence after everything and his anger is extremely over exaggerated. Phil is a male and a male stereotype is that men are violent Phil reinforced this. This representation reinforces the stereotype because it isn't doing anything to challenge it. its reinforcing it while also making it more exaggerated. This is a news article about Millwall and West Ham fans fighting. This article reinforces the stereotype of people from east London being violent and aggressive as Millwall fans are from the east end. The other character,Dexter, is challenging the stereotype of black people being thugs. He's challenging this because he's trying to make amends with Phil and it trying to make a living because he just wants a job. He's being r...