Mean Girls Themes
Society and Class
In Mean Girls' North Shore cafeteria, it's eat or be eaten—and we're not just talking about the mashed potatoes. There's a well-defined social order, with rules both spoken and unspoken, and cliq...
Identity
High school's hard enough when you haven't spent the past twelve years being home-schooled and hanging out with elephants after class. Socially, Cady's a blank slate when she enrolls at North Shore...
Power
Sure, it's not as cool as x-ray vision or flight, but the manipulative power Regina George wields in Mean Girls is almost as strong. She gets what she wants. At North Shore, social standing is powe...
Women and Femininity
There's a part near the end of Mean Girls when, as the girls of the junior class brawl throughout the halls, Joan the Secretary yells to Mr. Duvall, "Ron, come quick! They've gone wild. The girls h...