Mistresses is a drama that first aired on ABC in 2013 starring Alyssa Milano as Savannah and her three cohorts living their lives in Los Angeles, CA. The show just recently had its season three-finale episode, which is the one I decided to analyze. The three lead characters are Joss, Karen, and April, with Calista as a co-lead to replace Savannah. In the episode, Joss has just been released from jail, April realizes that she loves her dead husband’s mistress’ brother, Karen’s female lover in her polyamorous relationship dies of cancer, and Calista is assumed to have committed suicide. One major aspect of the show is the social status of the characters, specifically how the wealthy are portrayed. Mistresses socializes the wealthy as also being
The first is Calista who is a famous fashion designer. The second is Alec, the male in Karen’s polyamorous relationship, who is a well-known physician. Due to the fact that there are only two wealthy characters and all of the others are seen as middle-class, the ratio is quite uneven. This is relatable because there are less upper-class citizens than there are middle-class people in the current world as well. Calista is a lead character due to the fact that Alyssa Milano’s character left the show, but only for this season. She did not appear on the first or second season but was a prime character on season three. Alec on the other hand is in Karen’s storyline and he is a minor character. He does not appear in every episode and is not important to all characters except for Karen and his wife
It may seem as if the rich and the famous do not see or feel the consequences of everyday life, but it is clear that in this show they do. Mistresses socializes opinions on the wealthy very easily with Calista becoming a co-lead on the third season, it gives an inside look at her “perfect” world and exactly how it crashes down. Television programs socialize views much more than I thought. Watching TV involves you directly in the show and you see every aspect of what is happening in each character’s life. This allows the audience to relate, empathize, and understand each character for who they are. Television does this on purpose in order to engage the audience and keep their attention, while showing them unique interpretations of each aspect that adds to what is seen in their lives every
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...as Gossip Girl and 90210. Without Wharton’s novels, people of the twenty-first century would not know what goes on throughout the upper class.
The correct mathematical equation is one plus one equals two, not three. A marriage consists of a man and women who vow to be with each other as long as they both shall live. Two wives would make the house cleaning and duties much easier to accomplish, but it is dishonest. The man is requiring the two women to concentrate solely on himself while the two women have one man that splits his attention between them. Having two or more wives is immoral because it is selfish on the man’s part, goes against the Holy Bible, and does not give equal opportunity to the women.
The twelfth century was where significant changes were beginning to take place. Self expression in religion and sexuality between men and women was on the rise. People wanted to explicitly or implicitly seek greater access to God, as well as greater control of their own bodies. This resulted in the church demanding some sort of religious and sexual conformity. In doing so, the church wanted to establish its dominance in the moral and spiritual lives of the people it constituted. It began by taking the lead in prescribing what sexual acts people can indulge in and regulating where, when and with whom sex could take place. Sexual sinning then became of importance, and a controversial sin in the Middle Ages was adultery. Adultery as a sin was
Charles Chesnutt was an African American author who was born on June 20, 1850. Chesnutt was well known for his short stories about the issues of social and racial identity in post- reconstruction south. Chesnutt’s well-known example of his collection of short stories “The Wife of his Youth: And other Stories of the Color Line” examines issues of discrimination that permeate within the African American community. His most anthologized short story “The Wife of his Youth” explores the issue racial passing. The character Mr. Ryder attempts to assimilate into the white majority in a post- reconstruction American society. Mr. Ryder’s hopes to assimilate becomes an obsession. His opportunity for assimilation arrives through a widow name of Mrs. Molly Dixon,
Infidelity is the act of unfaithfulness to a person, union or situation. Marriage infidelity is a common phenomenon that is almost as equally participated in by wives as well as husbands.
In this paper I am writing about marriage and infidelity in modern life and the books we have read in class. Marriage is a mutual bond in which a man and a woman decide to be with each other until they die. Infidelity is basically when the man or woman in a relationship cheat on the other person, without them knowing.
Extramarital Affairs in Othello by Shakespeare Extramarital affairs happen all the time. This is not a new thing. People have been having affairs for as long as people have been in relationships. However, many people can have wonderful relationships without having affairs. Many times though marriages break up and divorce because someone believes the other person is having an affair, it is not really based on facts.
Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation provides insight on what it is like being a single woman living in America in current and past times. Traister interviewed more than 100 single women to give their personal stories, which makes the readers think about themselves and how they can relate to them. All the Single Ladies is an investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America. Traister argues that there are unknown unset society rules for women that women are expected to fulfill like marriage and children and those cliché stereotypes must be broken. Some women desire to be married and other women are concentrated on finding themselves which Traister argues
What challenges would you face as an emerging clinician working with couples who have a new monogamy perspective regarding infidelity?
Through interpreting the Bachelorette, I drew the conclusion that the producers implicitly geared an unflawed love story to blindly attract an audience who would fall helplessly for romance, drama and a happy ending. Although they are subtly censoring their shallows morals, as they value beauty and status over personality and genuine love. The vaaalues negatively reflect in our own world as they construct an idealistic perspective of vanity, priorities and materialistic relationships. Overall, the Bachelorette is constructed to gain popularity through marketing, but it also has a reproduction in our own
On the other hand, despite how close of a family they are, their reality television show by nature has proven to have negative effects on society. Reality television is a new form of media that is gaining popularity and provides increased exposure to glamorized alcohol use, definitely pictured in Keeping up with the Kardashians. In fact, the majority of participants in a study regarding the negative effects of reality shows agreed that reality TV encourages college students' alcohol consumption and overwhelmingly agreed that reality TV depicted alcohol consumption as glamorous with far fewer recognizing any depiction of negative consequences (Paredes). Personally, I disagree with this sentiment, because as much as their platform has brought their scandals and wrongdoings to light, it shows us what not to do. If we view their behavior as trashy and classless, then why would we desire to mimic
There is a large gap in the differences between the middle class of the characters such as Jenny and Dan Humphrey and then the upper class of Blair, Serena, Nate and Chuck. The elite class lives in the upper east side of Manhattan in spectacular penthouses and it always gloried in the show. Then there is the middle class that lives in small stingy apartments in
In order to understand the definition of “spouse” in the context of extra marital affairs, it is important to define extra martial affairs. Extra marital affairs, which can also termed as adultery or infidelity is generally defined as consensual sexual and romantic relationship where one - or both parties - is legally married to another individual. Several jurisdiction discourage extramarital affairs such as India, Taiwan, Pakistan and Philippines and criminalise the behaviour. Under the Australian legislative statutory, it would seem that extramarital affairs go beyond the norm due to the insistence of “a mutual commitment to a shared life as husband and wife” under the Migration Regulation 1994 amendment rules. However, this law is generic