Essay On Mad Men

Some people believe that the more money a person has, the less satisfied the person is in life. Women’s emotions are not affected the same, but some women’s emotions are affected differently by dealing with different men with different income compared to other men. The show, Mad Men, takes place in the 1960’s New York, portraying the life of the protagonist, Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the Creative Director of Sterling Cooper Agency, an advertising agency owned by Roger Sterling (John Slattery). Don Draper is praised for his work, but many of the employees in the company, like Draper, are filled with arrogance and disrespect that not only the men face, but the women tolerate. The episode “Shoot” mainly focuses on how Don does not want his wife, Betty Draper (January Jones), to model again, on how the agency is trying to figure out how to stop John F. Kennedy’s campaign on the air, and how Don is trying to figure out to leave Sterling Cooper Agency and work for McCann-Erikson Firm, a different advertising agency. Throughout the episode, many can notice the men degrading and utilizing the women in the episode by making rude, sexual remarks towards the women or competing to be better than the women. Betty symbolizes a married woman who becomes more dependent as her husband becomes more successful. Betty’s expectation to be a dutiful, nurturing mother is displayed in her mother-daughter relationship. This episode’s depiction of working, single women indicates that single women are

The complexity of Rachel’s character differs within the play. On the one hand, Rachel is portrayed in a male disguise showing she has independence as she has taken matters into her own hands, her successful manipulation through disguise perhaps demonstrating her intelligence and how easily women can dupe men. This could also suggest that she is not acting according to the social ‘norms’ for women in the 60s demonstrating that she doesn’t fear people’s views of her although she is a woman. She demonstrates her strength and independence as she takes matters into her own hands ‘I’ll take two hundred in cash’ and acts in a violent way ‘Rachel slaps Francis’, portraying the growing power of women. On the other hand, Bean could have done this to project the message that women cannot hold any power without the help of a man. Although she has decided to solve her problem herself, she has had to dress up as a man to do so, thus showing that women’s roles are often tokenistic. The motive behind her plan was also for a man illustrating the length a women will go for a man. Had Rachel not dressed up as a man maybe she would not have gotten so far, her success in doing so

Although Rachel is very emotional, in the only dialogue between her and Mrs. Pierce she sounds very shy, unsure of herself, not ready to confront and timid.

Rachel Price is a character within the novel who is very self-centered, arrogant, selfish, racist, and independent. Although some of these characteristics go along with each other, others seem to contradict each other. Rachel’s selfishness shows through in many parts of the book. She is typically only focused on her successes and issues, without much regard to anyone else.

This inner defiance gives evidence to Rachel’s determination and individuality. The sweater now represents a sort of barrier and if she submits herself to it, she fears the world of ages and maturity.

This aspect of greed is greatly represented by all characters throughout Mad Men. In the opening episode of Mad Men, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, viewers discover the infamous Donald Draper and the challenges he faces as a high-powered ad executive for Madison Avenue’s most prized advertising agency, Sterling Cooper. Viewers see Draper visit his mistress, Midge, and after a late night arrival and early morning departure its obvious Drapers intentions is nothing more than physical relations. After Draper’s departure from Midge’s he is off to the office for his usual work routine. Returning home audiences discover Draper is married with a picturesque wife, home and children. This first episode of the series sets a tone of the greed and deceit which Draper represents. Despite his highly acclaimed and acknowledged success, Draper is not fulfilled with the seemingly perfect life he has built for himself. In another episode “Marriage of Figaro” the Draper family is celebrating daughter Sally’s birthday. Betty, Don’s physically flawless wife, requests he make a trip to the bakery to retrieve Sally’s birthday cake. Upon his journey Don decides not to return to the party leaving everyone disappointed, his family included, for his own selfish reasons. Don has virtually zero regard for anyone but his own self’s happiness. Also another key representation of greed comes in the form of Pete Campbell, a new executive of Sterling Cooper. Pete engages in relations with

Women take an oppressive role and Rachel is sure to not be taken under a man’s hold. While faking an engagement with a man involved in political affairs, Eeben Axelroot, she knows how to use her physical features to make him expose his intentions. In addition to that, she uses what she knows about others through Axelroot to her advantage. At one point, while interested in marrying a rich ambassador, she says “ After what I know about that man, I can wrap him around my little finger” (Kingsolver 428). Rachel also understands that although men keep women in the house daily, they cannot go on a week without them cooking or supporting their

I never had that. My life was the store". This quote demonstrates that Rachel wanted a change and was ready to do whatever it took to get it. Rachel experiences at school were awful due to the fact that she was Jewish and her father owned a business. During this time period she stood out from other people and no one wanted to be her friend except for a white girl named Frances.

Her arrogant tone and malapropistic diction show that she has no intention of learning the language of Kilanga or communicating with the people there. For example, when she is making fun of Mr. Axelroot she says the he may have forgotten “we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony” (Kingsolver 405). This along with many other times she uses incorrect syntax and malapropism shows that Rachel is trying to act older than she is and causing miscommunication between her and others. She also is arrogant and comes to the Congo with the belief that whites honestly are superior to other races.

“That’s what it felt like this morning, because it’s their territory now, it’s Tom and Anna’s and Scott and Megan’s. I’m the outsider, I don’t belong here, and yet everything is so familiar to me” (65). I selected this quote because it indicates Rachel’s feeling of isolation from what she was once a part of. “I’m not beautiful, and I can’t have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless” (79).

Rachel herself is a child that wishes to someday be a loving caring mother. The whole play itself is a social protest against racial violence and lynching of African Americans. It was first performed in Washington DC in the year 1916. This first play was also known as “The first successful drama written by a Negro and interpreted by Negro actors.” (Locke and Gregory). At the time it was also admired by some critics for its dramaturgical skills. Surprisingly, now days, there has been hardly any criticism. This may be due to the play itself still being unfamiliar to so many and the fact that Grimke’s dramatic writing style is just not what people read these days, it is somewhat outdated. Grimke did not mind any of the criticism she got, she just learned to take the good with the bad. Although she had written a large number of plays sadly they did not become widely popular until after her death.

Rachel Marsh, had to be confident on where she stood politically. “I have found my proper place I am sure of it.” Rachel says this after choosing Patriots because she knew that she had to chose a side that supported her, and her beliefs. This is important in the story, because Rinaldi liked to put women in a place of power in her novels where everything revolved around them, where Rachel had full power to make this choice herself. Rachel grows immensely in confidence throughout the novel, readers can easily prove this with the ending of the book with her making the best choice for her, and is no longer Matthews

Rachel grew up in a house hold where she had to grow up really quick. In her early teenage years she witnesses her mom struggle through abusive relationships with her step dad and other boyfriends that came after. She eventually became an alcoholic. By the time Rachel was 13 year old, she dropped out of school to take the role of the emotional and financial care taker of her mother. Living in her

Countless women in the 1980s were discriminated based on their gender alone, so they believed in order to establish themselves they needed to act like a businessman to be heard. “Being used to having successful executives being, and therefore acting like, men teaches managers and leaders to expect women to model the same behavior.” Women that related to Kathrine Parker’s character believe they need to act like their dominate counterpart in their business, since the attitude men were giving gave them

In the novel Something Borrowed written by Emily Giffin, Rachel lives in Manhattan with Darcy her best friend since childhood. She is a lawyer but she despises her job. In law school she had a secret crush on a guy named Dex but she never tried to initiate anything because she thought he was out of her league. She then introduces Dex to her best friend Darcy and they get engaged. On the night of her thirtieth birthday Rachel sleeps with Dex and they begin to have an affair.