Monarch of the glen - age

In the extract Monarch of the Glen it shows a clear difference between the age groups. It shows a young girl at the age of 16 and it shows a range of different adults at all mixed ages.

In the beginning of the scene you see the adults at work asserting their power as the adults. There are two types of age groups in this scene and that is youth and adult. The young girl is given car keys to drive a truck, she takes the keys and begins to drive a few moments later you hear the truck crash which shows that she is not mature enough to be able to drive and that she is to young to of passed her driving test or learnt.

The person who the young girl crashed into was her head master at her school, the adults who where working at the beginning hear the crash and run to the young girl to make sure she is okay, that is a good example of the adults showing their power over the younger girl, they go to protect her much like a mother would her own child or a father would. The headmaster reveals the girls age and states that she is only 16 and should be in school.

The adults seem shocked that the girl is only 16 as if she had been lying to them about her age this could suggest that she didn't want to be treated like a child and that she wanted to be treated equally like an adult, much like most teenagers. The costumes that both the adults and girl wear also states their age group and the difference in power, the girl is wearing casual clothes just a t-shirt and some jeans whereas the adults are wearing what would be classed as their work clothes as they work in the country side.

The adult male tells the young girl that she must leave and go back to her school and complete her exams, the girl gets very defensive and flips the stereotype by showing power over the adult when she begins to shout and argue with him, he argues back however it does show a flipped side of the stereotype as younger people are often considered less powerful than adults. The young girl also has her hair in a simple pony tail and not much makeup which suggests how young she is.

The girl is the victim in this as she is suddenly told she cannot be apart of the adult group and is instantly treated like a child again. She says that her father never paid attention to her which could be one reason why she wants to be more grown up as she may not have had much chance to be a child and she may of had to grow up a lot faster than most teenagers.

The young girl goes upstairs to pack her stuff like she is asked to showing that adults do have the more power and that the youth do obey to what they are asked most of the time. When the girl is leaving her room she leaves two teddy bears on her bed. Teddy bears are associciated with younger children much younger children. The teddy bears could be a representation of her youth and how young she is, although ahe is 16 and in her middle teenage years the teddy bears represent her age and it also represents the big gap between both the adults and the youth.