Marge Simpson

Marjorie Jacqueline Bouvier better known as Marge Simpson is a fictional character from the cartoon television series The Simpsons. She is the wife of Homer Simpson and mother of the three children that she has had from this marriage: Bart, Lisa and Maggie. She, along with the rest of her family, make up the cast of leading characters in The Simpsons , her presence has proven to be essential to keep the family together.

Marge was created by cartoonist Matt Groening in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office, for her television debut on April 19, 1987, in the short Good Night aired on The Tracey Ullman Show.

Marge's distinctive gruff voice is provided by Julie Kavner in the original version, who also voices her closest female relatives especially her sisters, Patty and Selma Bouvier, and her mother, Jacqueline. The producers have limited Kavner's voice to the female characters of the Bouvier family, as her range is too recognizable and peculiar. Hispanic voice actresses have also limited their interpretation to these characters and some have even suffered throat problems during the interpretation.^{[citation required]}

The character of Marge Simpson has delved into the archetypal roles that housewife wives usually play in animated series, in the same vein promoted by Hanna Barbera with Vilma Flintstone or Jane Jetson. Her passionate and blind dedication to her ungrateful family has served as a modern model for other female characters in later animated series. For this reason, she has been considered the best mother both fictional and real by the British public.

Role in The Simpsons

Marge plays the typical role of a mom on family sitcoms, sometimes portrayed as gullible, gullible, simple-minded, or optimistic. Essentially she is a housewife, devoted to domestic chores, such as cleaning, cooking and taking care of her children, and to the financial management of the house. Her main role at home is to keep the family unit together with her sober vision of reality with her feet on the ground, seasoned with some lesson in civics and morality, sometimes idyllic and traditional that has even led her to show glimpses of intolerance. As a mother, she wants her older children to see her as her confidante and friend; as a wife she tries to keep her husband happy, sometimes sacrificing her welfare, sanity and ethics; and as a gregarious person, she struggles to have any friendships or social life.

Their most common tagline is an elongated, nasalized growl as a sign of disgust, surprise, or disapproval. It could also be considered as a filler for Marge to shout the name of her children or her husband to scold them or call them to attention for something. Another of her most famous and repeated phrases is the introduction of her formulated "a mother always knows..."; and then she shows off the knowledge of her acquired from her as a housewife, mother and selfless wife.

Biography

Marge was born on March 19, 1954 (not the same day as Mel Gibson as she herself admitted) and grew up in rural southern North America, on a farm with a very familiar atmosphere and vacationed with all the family to Barnacle Bay, an island off the coast of Springfield. Her father was a flight attendant (stewardess), which traumatized young Marge, developing a fear of airplanes and flying. Soon Marge went to live in the city of Springfield and graduated from high school. At the end of her compulsory studies, Marge had had several loves, but Homer, who already knew him from a camp in her childhood (although she did not know it was him), would be the one with whom she would have a longest relationship and would end up marrying. Marge worked as a waitress at a drive-thru while single and graduated from college.

After seeing The Empire Strikes Back, Marge became pregnant and, in order not to dishonor her, Homer proposed to her. They got married in Fast Pete's chapel so they wouldn't splurge, and their honeymoon wasn't much, either. They went to live in an apartment in the suburbs of Springfield where they raised Bart for his first two years. When she became pregnant with Lisa, the couple was urged to move to a larger family and bought the house they currently live in after Homer was accepted as an employee at the nuclear plant. They had a third child, Maggie, forcing Homer to stay at his job at the plant. Since then, Marge has been a stay-at-home mom all this time, trying to brighten up her routine with some casual, temp work.

Everyday life

Typically, Marge is a full-time housewife. She is usually at home all day, cleaning, cooking or taking care of Maggie and as a rule she only goes out to do the shopping. Exceptionally, Marge accompanies the children to school, in case they cannot take the bus, and to the doctor or has accompanied Homer to work or his mother-in-law somewhere in case they did not have the car. Sometimes Marge has organized outings with all or part of her family. To break the routine, Marge has unsuccessfully tried to take a side job or join social clubs.

Because of this monotonous and domestic life, Marge suffers from chronic foot pain and from time to time suffers from stress attacks. The latter has been solved either by taking vacations from her family, going to a retreat or spa, or by hiring a babysitter or family member to take care of the children and the house. After her return to normality, the rest of the family realizes how much they love her and how essential Marge is in her house and they promise not to stress her again, although this does not last long. Actually, this lifestyle of hers likes it, because if she finds herself at home without any housework to do, she is thrown into alcohol, which scares her. She also enjoys being intimate with Homer, and they sometimes arrange love affairs without the children. Marge has been a gambler since a casino opened in Springfield, and since then she has successfully tried to get away from gambling.

Character

Marge plays the role of a loving, patient and devoted hard-working mother, often scorned by her children and whose husband doesn't listen to her. On the one hand, she recognizes that this distancing from her children is the attitude that is usually adopted at that age, while on the other, she tries to instill in them values and moral perspectives that Homer ignores. As a rule, when Homer ignores his wife's advice, he ends up getting into trouble. In any case, Marge loves her family very much and with her husband she shows herself to be a great lover, especially in picturesque situations or with the risk of being discovered. She has developed a greater trust with Lisa, probably due to her being a girl, while Bart is usually much more ashamed of her. Maggie is very attached to her mother, due to the time they spend together.

She loves Homer so much that she has developed an unhealthy ability to overlook the stupid things he does, but despite that her patience has a limit. She has been on the verge of abandoning her husband more than once when he has not given her the pertinent signs of love, has embarrassed her or has carried out actions that have endangered other people. The patriarch's opposition to Marge's high moral values is not usually a reason for the couple to break up or separate, possibly because she is one of the few people in Springfield who has them and few can understand her. Despite this, Marge has gone against the Christian conception of her life as a couple on two occasions and has considered being unfaithful to Homer, without actually doing so.

Marge is famous for her recipes; Both her family and her neighbors recognize the high quality of everything she cooks and sometimes this is essential to maintain harmony in the city. She is also a compulsive cleaner, even in inappropriate situations. She is very meticulous, a perfectionist and likes to give the impression that in her house they are very clean and polite when they have visitors. She is also very strict when it comes to complying with regulations and laws and she feels like a criminal when she gives the impression that she is going against the system. The only vice of hers that has shaken her family stability is an exaggerated tendency to gambling, from which she seems to have partially recovered. Her only hobby is painting, which has allowed her to meet her her musical idol Ringo Starr by sending her a portrait of him made by her. She has also shown to have excellent teaching skills, but she has barely given them a professional outlet.

Physically, Marge is a healthy young 36-year-old woman. She is very thin and on several occasions has shown herself to be in very good physical condition. She daily wears a rudimentary green one-piece dress that she gets discounted in stores and some shoes and a necklace of the same orange color. She also has a large closet of inexpensive ball gowns for special occasions. She also sports necklaces and red heels. She has always worn her hair long and dyed blue and since her high school graduation day she wears it more often up in a long bun than loose.

Creation

Matt Groening was presented with the opportunity to make some animated shorts that would be included in a variety show. He thought that if he proposed his Life in Hell characters for the shorts, he would lose the copyright on the comic strip, so he impromptu designed the Simpson family in the waiting room of James L. Brooks' office. based on his own family. She hastily sketched her own version of a dysfunctional family, naming the mother after her own. Marge debuted in the short film Good Night with the rest of the Simpson family on April 19, 1987. on the Tracey Ullman Show.

The main characters were designed in such a way that they would be recognizable by their silhouette and in a crowd. Aside from her distinctive green dress, distinctive to Marge's design was her long blue beehive-like bow, which she always wore. makes you stand out from the crowds. Sometimes her long bouffant hair presents logistical problems that are usually resolved in the most comical way possible.

The concept and design of Marge is based on (or parodies or pays tribute to) one of the most famous wives in the world of animation: Wilma Flintstone. The idea of an attractive woman inexplicably married to a chubby, neglected, humble and not very attractive man comes from the concept of the main couple in The Flintstones. Marge's design owes a lot to this character: the simple one-piece dress and pearl necklace in the animation are based on Velma. Even Marge's bow is an exaggeration of Velma's.

Development

Marge is, after Maggie, one of the main characters that has evolved the least during the series. Her values, her ethics, her energy, and her political and religious convictions have not changed during the series. Homer Simpson's growing stupidity has made Marge sometimes have to declare why she is still with him, having to give an explanation that has little to do with the original reasons why they joined. An explanation that suggests that Marge is increasingly affected in the head by continuing with Homer. Possibly the only element of evolution as a character that can be captured in Marge is her ability to experiment to work outside the home and do what she wants, a theme that entered late into the series with Springfield Connection . Her political crusades have also diminished, implying that she is quite resigned and has realized that little or nothing can influence to improve the world. Her struggle to keep the family together, usually through religion, and finding a loophole in her routine are fairly recurring themes in all seasons. She herself now has the same difficulties socializing as she did at the beginning of the series, when she seemed to not have many friends.

Dubbing

Marge is voiced in the original version by Julie Kavner, who also voices her mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma. Kavner was already part of the regular cast of extras on The Tracey Ullman Show. Because voices were needed for the shorts, the producers approached Kavner and another teammate, Dan Castellaneta, to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire new actors. Part of Kavner's contract states that he cannot promote The Simpsons in screen so as not to 'destroy the illusion for children'. In the Simpsons film, some scenes, such as Marge's video message to Homer, had to be recorded many times, leaving Kavner exhausted. In the Spanish version, Marge was played by Amparo Soto for the first three seasons, but her harsh range destroyed her vocal cords, so she left the dubbing. She then replaced Begoña Hernando for the next two seasons, but she had to leave him due to the same problems. Since then, Margarita de Francia has been in charge of giving Marge the voice. In Spanish America until the fifteenth season (inclusive) she was voiced by Nancy McKenzie, currently replaced by Marina Huerta due to union problems.^{[citation needed ]}

Awards

Julie Kavner received a Prime time Emmy Award in 1992 for voicing Marge in the episode I Married Marge. In 2004, Kavner and Dan Castellaneta (the voice actor Homer's official) won a Young Artist Award for playing "Most Popular Mom and Dad on TV". For his work on the Simpsons film Kavner was nominated for an Annie Award in 2007 for "best voice acting in an animated feature," but the award went to Ian Holm for his performance in Ratatouille. Kavner in the film decided the majority of the film's positive reviews which noted that she "gave him her most heartfelt performance".

Marge has risen high on lists of the best moms of all time. She was ranked No. 1 on Entertainment Weekly's 1994 list, No. 1 on Fox News' 2005 list, No. 8 on CityNews' 2008 list, and was named to the "Top 10 Moms" list by Time magazine. In a 2004 UK poll, Marge was named "most respected mother" by respondents.

Catholic writer Kenneth Briggs wrote: “Marge is my candidate for sainthood […] she lives in the real world, she lives with crises, with handicapped people; she forgives and makes her own mistakes; she is a pious, caring person [...] totally holy & # 34;.

Marge has been lauded by critics, yet audiences don't have as close a relationship with the character as they do with others in the series such as Homer and Bart. Generally the women of the Simpson family have not been totally liked by the general public, being the chapters that focus exclusively on them the lowest in audience of all the TV series such as Lisa the Drama Queen, Four Great Women and a Manicure, Gone Maggie Gone, chapters starring the female members of the Simpson family, which shows a certain rejection of the chapters starring the women of the series.

In the November 2009 issue, Marge was on the cover of Playboy magazine, in honor of the series' 20th anniversary.

Reception

At the 44th Primetime Emmy Awards, Kavner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Over Performance for voicing Marge in the season three episode 'I Married Marge'. In 2004, Kavner and Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer) won the Young Artist Award for "Most Mom & Most Popular Dad in a TV Series". For her performance in The Simpsons Movie, Kavner was nominated for "Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature"; at the 2007 Annie Awards, but she lost to Ratatouille's Ian Holm. Kavner's emotional performance in the film garnered positive reviews, with one critic saying he "gave what has to be the most heartfelt performance of all time." Several episodes in which Marge has featured prominently have been nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program by Her, including 'The Way We Was Weren'. in 2004 and "Life on the Fast Lane," which won the award in 1990. In 2000, Marge and the rest of the Simpson family received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.

Marge has been ranked highly on lists of the best TV moms of all time. She was ranked number one on Entertainment Weekly's list in 1994; first on the Fox News list in 2005; eighth on the CityNews list in 2008; and was included in the list of "The 10 Best Moms Ever" of Time. In a 2004 UK poll, Marge was named the "most respected mother" by respondents. As late as 2004, Marge was ranked third in a poll conducted by the Opinion Research Company. In May 2012, Marge was one of 12 moms chosen by iVillage users on their list of "Dearest Mommy: The TV Moms You Love". AOL has named Marge the "24th Most Memorable Female Character on Television". Her relationship with Homer was included in TV Guide's list of "The Best TV Couples of All Time".

Religious writer Kenneth Briggs has written that "Marge is my candidate for sainthood... She lives in the real world, she lives with crises, with flawed people. She forgives and makes her own mistakes. She is a loving and forgiving person...absolutely holy."