Women's Role in Aliens

Women played a very important role in the movie Aliens. Throughout the movie, women went from small roles to becoming leaders, survivors, and protectors. For example, Ripley tries to let the Colonial Marines know that there will be disaster of aliens infesting the colony, but they continued to interrogate her and not take her seriously. They were surprised to see that Ripley was able to use weapons and machinery as well as the rest of …

…feeling safe herself. With all the men dead, females are the only ones to survive, leaving females triumphant over males when it comes to combat battle. The females were the last to survive, which ended up with a duel between two females. The final battle was between Ripley and the alien queen, the two female leaders of both species. Which ends up with Ripley destroying the alien queen and saving her “child” Newt and herself.