Weng Yuchao
(Wesley)
Dr. Marquardt
ENG1430W10
April 18, 2015
Marriage Plot Arguments
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. 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 the limit of tradition. And the story like Cinderella can
never update as society advances, which really bores the audience. And 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, because marriage plots can really bore the audience
and reinforce traditional gender roles, which is bad for young readers to build
their personalities.
Melissa Joan Hartis, an American actress, who
is known for her title roles in the television series
Clarissa Explains It All (1991–94), says: “I’m not a happy-ending person. I
want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with prince charming.” According
what she says, Melissa Joan Hartis doesn’t like stories which have marriage
plots and happy ending. She is a successful actress and she doesn’t want to be
limited in tradition. She says want to know how Cinderella story goes if
cinderella rides off the prince, which
means she hates marriage plots as a ending, she want creative ideas and
surprise plots in the story. She doesn’t like happy ending, marriage plots and
wants story to be more creative and surprising, which support my claim. Marriage
plots limited the characters and bore the audience, so marriage plots as an
ending is bad.
“I was thinking that when I have
children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think
their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!”
Gwen Stefani, an
American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and actress says. Stefani
conveys to us an idea that she doesn’t want her children think Cinderella as a standard,
which means that Cinderella reinforce the traditional gender roles, Stefani
want her children to develop their own personality and doesn’t want her children
be limited by traditional genders. This also reflects a huge problem of
Cinderella story. Marriage plots in the story are too old that only give
characters traditional gender quality, so children can be easily miss leaded by
story. This also support my claim. Marriage plots are bad because marriage
plots reinforce the traditional gender roles, which is bad for children to
build their own personalities,
However, someone thinks that marriage plots
are good. Someone says that Cinderella in the traditional story gets through a
painful process before her married prince, which can teach young children a
lesson that keeping up will finally be rewarded. I don’t agree with that.
Cinderella gets through a painful process, which is true. But Cinderella does
nothing but tolerate during the painful process. Marriage plots actually try to
teach children that you will be rewarded if you do nothing but try hard to bear
the pain. Again, this also supports my claim. The wrong concept that marriage
plots convey to readers will totally miss lead children, so marriage plots are
bad.
In a word, marriage plots are bad because
marriage plots can really bore the audience and reinforce traditional gender
roles, which is bad for young readers to build their personalities.
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