The Graduate Themes

In The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock has just graduated from college, but he still hasn't developed an idea of what he wants to do in the world or who he really is. Up until now, his identity has bee...

Ben's relationship with Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate is not about love. They hardy talk during their trysts; the nature of their relationship seems to be purely sexual. On the other hand, he and E...

The Graduate was a pretty provocative movie for its time, even though you can see more sex today on prime-time TV. The raciness is really in the seduction. Nichols said he deliberately left out muc...

We have at least one example of a bad marriage in The Graduate, and one potential example of a good one (not counting Benjamin's parents' marriage, which seems to be pretty good). The bad marriage...

Alienation is one of the themes of The Graduate that make this film so popular among young people. Feeling misunderstood and feeling like an outsider are universal experiencea on the road to figuri...