Sex And The City
“Sex and the City” is a sitcom whose plot is built up by four women who are the main characters among other characters. Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbes team and come up with a sitcom that addresses the plight of the American women; the opinions of women on love, sex, marriage and gender roles are strongly portrayed in this comedy. Lynn agrees that “Sex and the city” lays focus on the ups and downs of these characters to elucidate the kind of life women would like to live and the demands, the roles and the rights of the modern woman; apart from Charlotte, the other three main characters treat women horribly. This essay uses the first three episodes of the first season of “Sex and the city” to support the thesis that albeit American women can be capable like men and they want equal rights as men, they are not up to destroy romance which no longer exists in New York, America.
In the first episode, Carrie is worried about the fact that in the world she lives in, many successful women remain single and that is not true for men of the same class (Cinefilo). This is just one of the many questions that she attempts to answer in this television series. Her worry comes from her running into Sarah; a Briton who is left by her man, who is a resident in New York, even after she was traditionally convinced of his standpoint about their relationship (The Internet Movie Database). Sarah and her man target a house together; in London, this is a tradition that would convince a woman of a man’s commitment. Carrie notifies this Briton that rules of romance applying in London may be different from those in New York; Carrie believes women are not the reason why romance no longer exists in New York. Carrie further substantiates her point by interviewing her friends which she split into three classes; single women, who are apparently her best allies; lethal bachelors, who consist of all men apart from one of them who is classified as a desperate romantic.
Carrie spends much of her time with the single ladies, who are apparently her best friends, in a bid to try and expose them better to the audience. One character who confirms that successful American women have the same opinion about New York men is Miranda Hobbes. Miranda Hobbes is a pessimistic attorney who has lost confidence in virtually all men. On the other hand, another character, Charlotte York, who specializes in art, believes in the existence of true love just like her friend Carrie. In contrary, Samantha Jones, who is a public relations person, believes in having sex without being emotionally attached to her acquaintances; she argues that like men, she is supposed to have a right to promiscuous sex. Carrie’s interview is basically aimed at testing a hypothesis that genuine love exists in this episode where she unexpectedly bumps into a good-looking stranger called Mr. Big.
Jane Austen, the jagged feminine wit, and Woody Allen, the manifestation of love in the Big Apple, also play a pivotal role in realizing the plot of this episode. American related themes of sex and gender are brought about in such a witty way; it also astonishes given that the most pessimistic characters are the most funny, that is, Samantha and Miranda. Samantha represents some of the American women; she does not care about the feelings of the men she encounters; she acts like a man-eater (Gennaro 1). Unlike Samantha, Miranda acts in a cold manner; she has given up with men and she exhibits no feelings for them; she feels that she has no reason to show positive emotions for men unlike other women since she considers the male population untrustworthy. This episode is one of the most sacrilegious episodes since only two characters use disrespectful language: Miranda and Noth, each of them once.
In the second episode of the first season, the quandary whether men like models or ordinary girls replaces the doubt in the first episode if true love is existent or not although the four main characters still reign. In this episode, American men are portrayed as men who are led by looks and not other virtues that are important in women. Carrie decides to write an article about the issue after realizing that many women are battling with that issue; most women do not appreciate themselves since they give define beauty by comparing themselves to models. Samantha is portrayed as a woman who loves her body despite the fact that she sleeps with multiple men. It is a conflicting idea that she dates men such as Barkley who love going out with models. Stanford like Derek while Miranda succumbs to the fact that men are attracted to models; she allows herself to be taken aback by the fact that she is not a model. Miranda decides to hang out with Skipper as he admits that he finds her brilliant. Even Carrie is affected when she discovers that her date, Mr. Big, also finds himself attracted to models.
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