Project 3.1

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)

Dr. Marquardt

ENG1430W10

April 18, 2015

                                                 Marriage Plot Arguments

 As far as I am concerned, I agree with kheyfet’s idea that marriage as an ending is bad. Stories with a marriage ending reinforce traditional gender roles, which is ultimately limiting to all the characters.

 In the Cinderella story, because it has a marriage ending, characters should act in a certain way to make that marriage ending happens. With a marriage ending, which means the story would have a happy ending and the main character will live happily ever after. This makes Cinderella, prince and other character can just move with limit of tradition. And the story like Cinderella can never update as society advances, which can really bored the audience.

 Take Cinderella for an example, Cinderella in the story never think of struggle for herself, she just stay there and wait prince to save her. In a word, Cinderella is so passive and innocent, which traditional women should be. And for the prince, he doesn’t even appear in the story, but all the readers know that prince is powerful and he can do everything he wants, which shows the traditional masculine. Young audience read stories like Cinderella would form ideas of traditional gender roles. And adults read this kind of story would reinforce the concept of traditional gender roles. It’s not good for people to accept new concept and pretend society from moving forward.

 In a word, marriage as an ending is bad, story would lose readers if it has a marriage ending. And Stories with a marriage ending reinforce traditional gender roles, which is ultimately limiting to all the characters.