Fifty Shades Of Grey

Some might claim the YA genre has grown to be too dark for its target audience. Meghan Gurdon, a firm believer of this idea, explains why she believes this in her article, “Darkness Too Visible”. Gurdon describes the experience of a mother of three in a bookstore looking to purchase a YA novel for one of her children, when she found herself leaving the bookstore empty-handed due to the content of the teen books. While teen books decades ago contained less violent/corrupted material, times have changed along with the genre. She is concerned that these books could have an effect on these young readers’ brains as they are merely transferring from childhood to adulthood. Gurdon still has faith that YA books would sell just as well and connect with young readers today without all of the dark subject matters discussed in them these days.

Meghan Cox Gurdon’s article has many varying points of attack, while Sherman focuses all of his resources on one point; young adult (YA) literature isn’t detrimental. Gurdon contends the argument that youths being exposed to darker themes makes the themes less effective and ultimately undermines the intensity of the subjects, as well as spread them. She states this as “Self-destructive adolescent behaviors are observably infectious and have periods of vogue. That is not to discount the real suffering that some young people endure; it is an argument for taking care” (par. 13). Gurdon says young adult literature takes away a child’s innocence and negatively affects moral development (par. 6). In contrast, Sherman believes that YA books help people dealing with those troubles to overcome and accept them. He states, “... Does she believe that a YA novel about murder and rape will somehow schock a teenage

    The author appeals to her target audience with emotion. The audience in this story are  those who read Glamour magazine and could possible be only daughters in their family. Those people who feel discourage or unwanted are

Literature is the window to realizing the negatives of society and how destructive certain norms can be. Readers are brought into a completely different story than their own, but by using similar issues in today’s world, the readers can actually learn from the story and its overall message. All writers write for a purpose, whether it’s for a new meaning to life, to live a different life than our own, or to impact others on an emotional level by teaching them to see the importance of the little things. As a reader, you search for pieces of literature that interest you whether you find the story like your own, or wish you lived the life in the story. By using issues in today’s within their works, authors are able to grab the reader's attention long enough for them to get across what they wanted to get across. Often in many works of literature, writers use societal issues as their basis for the work’s themes and symbols. By doing so, this allows the reader to question the morality behind social norms and how impactful certain ideals can be in people’s lives.

To begin, the researcher for the article pulled more than 650 young women from ages of eighteen to twenty-four, some have and some have not read 50 shades of grey. The results from those who have read the book are; 25% were more likely to have a partner who has yelled or swore at them, 34% had stalking tendencies, 75% more likely to diet or fast. Those who read all the books resulted in 65% are more likely to binge drink and 63% are more likely to have five or more partners in their lifetime (Michigan State University & Bonomi, 2015). In order to collect such

For years literature has been probed and prodded by students, teachers, scholars, and those just looking to pass the time. What all these readers can agree on is that any single work can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Readers can derive interpretations on completely opposite sides of the spectrum, which can even go so far as to spark conflict or debate; thus, supporting Lemony Snicket’s argument that, the most “passionate and interesting pieces” of writing “divide” people in their opinions. Sometimes it is the writer’s intent to introduce a controversial issue to get people to question and argue, and other times the author merely presents a more relaxed or simplistic idea still knowing that readers can branch off of it in many different

To begin, the researcher for the article pulled more than 650 young women from ages of eighteen to twenty-four, some have and some have not read 50 shades of grey. The results from those who have read the book were; 25% were more likely to have a partner who has yelled or swore at them, 34% had stalking tendencies, 75% more likely to diet or fast. Those who read all the books resulted in 65% are more likely to binge drink and 63% are more likely to have five or more partners in their lifetime (Michigan State University & Bonomi, 2015). In

McClintock begins by telling her story of the first time she tries to find porn for women. McClintock walks into a magazine store looking for women’s porn magazine, but is left empty handed. McClintock sees many men leafing through magazines with “images of spread-eagled women” (111), but similar magazines for women aren’t found. McClintock doesn’t give up hope and asks the woman at the counter for help, and when the woman gives her a strange look she realizes that “the denial of female desire is…a global erasure” (111). This erasure of female desire is later furthered by a different experience she has in a sex emporium (McClintock). In this experience, the female dancer finishes her act, and approaches McClintock, the only woman in a room of males,

As decades have proven gender roles have worked to create one of the main disputes preexisting in our society. The controversial phenomena, set upon by the movie, Fifty Shades of Grey, works to fulfill this very popular belief. As college senior Anastasia Steele visits the powerful business man Christen Gray, to interview him for a school paper, the story takes a plot twist as the over achieving college student and successful business owner build a deeper, and more and inmate level of relationship. Throughout the story as the plot thickens and the character's relationship goes on, the viewers are introduced to an essential theme, very common in many cultures. Although as both characters work within their roles, christen gray's character shows the stronger cultural disagreement through the use of his language, sexual action and physical control.

By the same token, the romance fiction genre pivots on the presentation of “women’s triumphs over systemic inequality” (Jagodzinski 9)¬–that is, Caucasian women’s triumphs, as the romance fiction genre “seldom extends that kind of concern to other marginalized groups” (Jagodzinski 9). The romance fiction genre’s endeavor to “debunk ideological justifications for women's subordination offers little insight into the domination” (Crenshaw 155) of women of color, and the messages that correlate with the genre’s narratives are “overgeneralized at best” (Crenshaw 155) as a consequence of the narratives embedment in solitarily Caucasian experience. Disagreeing with this model of romance fiction, Jagodzinski proposes that romance fiction authors who “look beyond just patriarchal oppression to consider other types of systemic oppression, like racial oppression” (Jagodzinski 9) create a new subcategory of romance fiction: intersectional romance fiction, as various forms of identity-directed oppression “are considered in conjunction with one another” (Jagodzinski 9-10). The conflicts within intersectional romance fiction often “demonstrate how the maintenance of power is invested in the oppression” (Jagodzinski 150) of those who fail to meet the dominant standards of what the average member of society should appear as. When an author deliberately distinguishes “each character’s various avenues to power based on [their] identity” (Jagodzinski 40), the audience is naturally made

In this article the Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege by Danielle N. Borgia discusses about how the Twilight series had hidden negative points. It appeared in the journal “The journal of popular culture”. The overall journal article tears apart the Twilight series piece by piece, showing the underlying negative messages. There is also a big portion of this article that discusses about the main female character, which is Bella, how she puts up with abuse and becomes dependent towards Edward who is main male character. The article is divided into sections to focus on the main three points, which are abuse, codependency and white privilege.

The most dangerous type of coercion is the type that one does not even realize is happening. This form of abused is disputed of appearing on New York Time’s best seller novel Fifty Shades of Grey (2011). Critics and fans are at war debating whether or not the film promotes abuse. In the novel Fifty Shades (2011), there is a love story that flourishes in the most unusual of settings that could whether or not be viewed as abuse.

I have chosen to look at and analyse a television text. It is a TV drama aimed at a teenage audience called Skins. I chose this particular text as it focuses upon many different characters and scenarios in regards to sexuality and this forms a basis for analysis and evaluation. Skins also focuses upon Teenage sexuality, specifically, which I believe is a broad and interesting subject to analyse with many opportunities to elaborate.

In the article, Rethinking Fifty Shades of Grey Within a Feminist Context, the writer of the article starts off by mentioning that the film trailer for the movie adaption had gotten over 36 million views within the first week it came out. The Fifty Shades franchise became popular within its release around late 2011 to early 2012. The book was all the rave and very popular amongst women. The thing that most women do not seem to realize about the book is that the content is violence against women and mixing it with sex. The book features characters, Christian Grey seducing Anastasia by using violent tactics and sex.

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