Feminist View on Fifty Shades of Grey
The hot seller Fifty Shades of Grey is a descriptive novel of a man fulfilling his dirty fantasy. It starts off clean talking about a man meeting a women, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, then leads to talking over coffee, and advancing to a friends with benefits. The friends with benefits is more than just hooking up with another, it becomes a submissive and dominant relationship. Christian is the dominant and exercises his sexual fantasies on Anastasia Steele who is the submissive. Throughout the novel there are correlations to the ideas and discussions in the Sociology – Gender, Power, and Society class. There are many different ways that this connection takes place, such as through the dialogue, the way things are described and certain action taken by the character. Fifty Shades of Grey is a book that tells a tale through a mans eyes but exploits many theories about gender and power that are relatable to society and to the course.
A very famous test that is conducted on novels and books is called the Bechdel Test, which looks at whether there two female character and whether they talk or not. If they do, do they talk about something other then a man? In Fifty Shades of Grey there are two female characters Anastasia Steele and Katherine Kavanagh, they are two best friends who live together. A typical conversation between these two would go as so, “Mostly he was courteous, formal, slightly stuffy – like he’s old before his time. He doesn’t talk like a man of twenty-something. How old is he anyway? P.15” Due to the lack of conversation about other things then men, it fails the Bechdel Test. This is not a bad thing, but failing shows a lack of female empowerment and female characters are unnoticed. When this happens the focus shifts to only men, and that women are only meant to praise men and make them see like they are the main focus
An ideal man or women in society need to simply be flawless and meet the standards to fit into the category of
A very famous test that is conducted on novels and books is called the Bechdel Test, which looks at whether there two female character and whether they talk or not. If they do, do they talk about something other then a man? In Fifty Shades of Grey there are two female characters Anastasia Steele and Katherine Kavanagh, they are two best friends who live together. A typical conversation between these two would go as so, “Mostly he was courteous, formal, slightly stuffy – like he’s old before his time. He doesn’t talk like a man of twenty-something. How old is he anyway? P.15” Due to the lack of conversation about other things then men, it fails the Bechdel Test. This is not a bad thing, but failing shows a lack of female empowerment and female characters are unnoticed. When this happens the focus shifts to only men, and that women are only meant to praise men and make them see like they are the main focus
An ideal man or women in society need to simply be flawless and meet the standards to fit into the category of