Her comparison to Tess may be appropriate by way of her relationship with Christian in that Anastasia’s ‘love interest’ exhibits many of the same abusive and manipulative behaviors as Alec d’Urberville. These two heroines are nothing alike, except in Anastasia’s mind. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Anastasia Steele compares herself to Tess Durbeyfield of Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. It is not a noteworthy or particularly well written book, but it bears inspection for its cultural connotations. Popular culture has shot the novel Fifty Shades of Grey into the stratosphere.
If women want to read porn and erotica, I could not care less, but Fifty Shades is the worst thing you could choose, in my opinion.įifty Shades of the D’Urbervilles: Romanticizing Abuse I have a lot of problems with Fifty Shades of Grey. Warning, there are spoilers for both Tess and Fifty Shades. I chose Tess because within Fifty Shades, Anastasia compares herself to Tess and Christian to Alec as if Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a romantic story like Pride and Prejudice. This essay compares Fifty Shades with the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. My essay doesn’t even touch on the poor writing and infantilization of a grown woman. The phenomenal response to Fifty Shades is highly troubling to me because this is the type of relationship people believe they want. The topic is something I’ve wanted to explore for a while, which is the romanticizing of abuse in Fifty Shades of Grey. I wrote this essay for my application to graduate school. This post isn’t like my previous reviews.
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