Avengers Characters

The Representation of Characters in The Avengers

Mrs Peel Representation:

• Costume: Emma Peel is usually seen wearing a skin-tight latex suit.
• Settings: Emma Peel is often seen in her apartment which is highly modern and contains very expensive decorations.
• Props: Emma Peel can be seen fencing quite often.
• Actions: Emma Peel would quite often flirt with her partner, John Steed.
• Dialogue: Speaks with a posh accent to prove she is of the upperclass.
• Stereotypes: Is quite often sexualised as a woman, but is in no way shown to be weak as she can beat others in a fight, however she does sometimes become damsel in distress as requires John Steed to come to her rescue.

Mr Steed Representation:

• Costume: John Steed is often seen wearing a suit and a bowler hat.
• Settings: John Steed is often found in places where the action is high, or a pace usually allocated to those oh a high class.
• Props: John Steed is seen carrying an umbrella quite often.
• Actions: John Steed is often seen flirting with Emma Peel. He is also quite good at hand to hand combat and will often be seen fighting.
• Dialogue: Speaks with a high-class accent.
• Stereotypes: Is an excellent combatant and can win in a fight against anyone, he will often come to the rescue of people such as Emma Peel.

1960's Stereotypes:

• Nationalities: At the time of filming majority of England would've been White British, and so the actors were White British so that way the audience could've identified further with the characters.
• Gender: Most of the lead roles were played by males, and females were minor side character apart from the aide of Steed.
• Job Roles: Females were always seen performing jobs which would've been considered womanly, so many females would've been teachers or nurses. Men would've been seen playing roles which required a lot of strength like soldiers or blacksmiths.
• Places: Seaside towns would often be the setting of episodes as they were associated with Britain.