Erica Freedman 1-24-2013 Feminist Theories in Intercultural Perspective- Hoffman The explosively common 50 Shades of Gray sequence depicts Ana Steele, an aspiring younger author who rapidly falls into the clutches of an especially seductive and profitable Christian Gray in a dominant/ submissive love story. Simply sweeping the younger and stressed woman off her ft, Gray’s assured and demanding presence starkly contrasts Ana’s who is understood to self deprecate and conceal behind plain clothes or a pile of books.
From the onset it’s clear that stereotyping Ana as frail and naive are what enable Christian to seem as the final word prince charming. Ana is initially depicted as unbiased: hyper-focused on a profitable profession within the literary world, the right daughter and the right pupil who has by no means had time for a boyfriend. Her greatest buddy and roommate Kate is much more self-sufficient because the requisite foil with the outspoken persona and journalistic go-getter angle. When Kate and Ana lose website of their objectives as a result of good-looking pair of profitable brothers, two gender facets are highlighted.
Kate’s energy is all of a sudden depicted as a masks that was disguising her actually female and love searching for qualities. Her priorities turn out to be utterly raveled and all she begins to want is spending extra time together with her new infatuation. Ana grapples with a watered down battle of morality the place she claims to really feel immense discomfort in having an overwhelming lover who can get her to do something he desires, whereas nonetheless desirous to make her personal manner. This concept is persistently undermined by her actions all through the story.
For example, after saving herself for the right particular person for twenty-two years, Ana is satisfied to giver herself away in a one-night stand with Gray. Instantly previous this level, Christian locations Ana in a highly-controlled, powerless relationship the place he stalks her, takes all of her time and insists on shopping for her issues she supposedly doesn’t want–together with a brand new wardrobe and the next place in a publishing firm that he decides to amass just a few weeks after she begins interning there.
Anastasia is all of a sudden incapable of speaking to certainly one of her closest buddies, Jose, due to Christian’s overwhelming jealousy. Finally, Anastasia caves to his needs on that entrance as effectively. As sexually liberated and full of love as Christian makes Ana really feel, he additionally simply and rapidly strips her of as a lot of her independence as he can. It’s these traits that make the existence of their relationship attainable. With out Ana’s willingness to stick to Christian’s expectations and calls for, she can’t have him, and so she does what is predicted of her as an alternative.
