Ada, the protagonist, is an obviously disturbed woman since she has stopped talking at the age of six and even she herself doesn’t know why. So the movie is set in a Victorian temporal context, and we become witnesses of the arrival of the first European settlers, mostly from England and Scotland. Watching Jane Campion’s The Piano, the spectator is taken on an anthropological excursion to New Zealand in the middle of the 19th century. 2 The Movie’s Presentation of Gender Ideology and Sexualityģ Ada – A Victorian Woman in A Male Dominated WorldĤ Ada and her Relationships to the Other Charactersĥ.1 The roles of Maori and Victorian womenĥ.2 Presentation of the Maoris in The Pianoĥ.3 Critique on the Presentation of the Maoris
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