Ideological Treatment of Gender in "Casablanca"

The movie "Casablanca", a jingoistic movie directed by Michael Curtiz in 1942 explores many different types of relationships between male and female, such as prostitution, adultery and also relationship between a young married couple. In "Casablanca" the females are portrayed to be fairly different from one another to a large extent, ranging from the characters presented as whores to virgins. Similarly for males, they are scaled from so called "bad" men to "good" men. These big differences in characteristics between the same gender conveys many ideologies that both accepts and challenges gender politics at the time the film was created, such as that "good women" must be protected compared to that adultery is encouraged which challenges the ideologies at the time.…