Both Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are often heralded as cinematic
             comedic pioneers. However, in both of these comedian's short films,
             entitled "The Tramp" and "One Week," each comedian makes use of common
             stereotypes of women, and also of common stereotypes of romantic
             relationships between men and women, to illustrate their comedic creations'
             personality deviations from the conventional masculine roles of domestic
             success. Both men in the two films function as failures in the domestic
             realm. This parallels their failures in conventional life and successes at
             comedic life. At the end of both films, rejections of conventional
             domesticity and the feminine become symbolic of these men's failures at
             conventional, masculine life, but also of their success in the world-upside
             down comedic, even heroic realm, of unconventional physical prowess and
             This is not to deny the groundbreaking efforts of both comedians.
             Surely, one of the seminal works of early comedy cinema is undoubtedly
             Charlie Chaplin's 1915 short film "The Tramp" because of its introduction
             of Chaplin's famous persona, The Little Tramp. As is indicative of the
             film's title, this story sets the tone and theme of almost all of the films
             Chaplin's major comedic character was to appear in. In this particular
             film, the tramp's first incarnation is that of a hobo who finds love by the
             side of a road. There is a strong association in the film between food,
             femininity, and the central protagonist's desire to find a place in a
             world. For instance, at the beginning of the short,' another tramp-like
             character, only a vicious one, tricks Chaplin's character into giving up
             his only sandwich for a brick. Because of this, the tramp must eat grass.
             But because of the tramp's willingness to trust he finds a more
             permanent source of sustenance. When the deceitful tramp tries to take
             advantage of a farmer's daughte...