Fifty Shades of Grey: a Look Into the Relationship
Fifty Shades of Grey: A look into the relationship
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James is an erotic novel that explores a Dominant-submissive relationship between a young woman and a multimillionaire bachelor. The novel’s focus is to open the literary world and its readers to an alternative relationship dynamic, which until now has not been prominent in literature. Fifty Shades of Grey is a successful erotic romance novel that emphasizes the unique aspects of a Dominant-submissive relationship. James clearly demonstrates how Ana is objectified and subjected to dehumanizing and humiliating acts while under the control of Christian Grey and how these behaviors result in negative mental impacts for submissives.
Anastasia Steele (Ana), and Christian Grey, form the couple that portray the Dom/sub relationship in the novel. Ana is new to all things sexual, while Christian has been apart of the Dom/sub world for numerous years. Not long after their first meeting, Christian introduces the first piece of paperwork attached to their relationship. A non-disclosure agreement, -NDA- contract is signed to keep Ana quiet, and Christian safe; it prohibits the submissive to talk about the Dominant in any detail to anyone other then the Dominant. This form of contract is legal in a court of law, and is the start to the revocation of submissives rights in the relationship.
Ana signs the contract without hesitation, assuming it is important because he is constantly in the public eye, and has a personal life he does not want exposed to the world. She ends up regretting her decision when her roommate starts to ask questions about their dates and her repeated overnight stays with Christian. Ana realizes, even though they are not officially in a relationship, he already has a certain amount of control over her. Dominants wish to exert control over every aspect of their submissives lives, at work, at home, and in their relationships; they want to be the one controlling how much they
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James is an erotic novel that explores a Dominant-submissive relationship between a young woman and a multimillionaire bachelor. The novel’s focus is to open the literary world and its readers to an alternative relationship dynamic, which until now has not been prominent in literature. Fifty Shades of Grey is a successful erotic romance novel that emphasizes the unique aspects of a Dominant-submissive relationship. James clearly demonstrates how Ana is objectified and subjected to dehumanizing and humiliating acts while under the control of Christian Grey and how these behaviors result in negative mental impacts for submissives.
Anastasia Steele (Ana), and Christian Grey, form the couple that portray the Dom/sub relationship in the novel. Ana is new to all things sexual, while Christian has been apart of the Dom/sub world for numerous years. Not long after their first meeting, Christian introduces the first piece of paperwork attached to their relationship. A non-disclosure agreement, -NDA- contract is signed to keep Ana quiet, and Christian safe; it prohibits the submissive to talk about the Dominant in any detail to anyone other then the Dominant. This form of contract is legal in a court of law, and is the start to the revocation of submissives rights in the relationship.
Ana signs the contract without hesitation, assuming it is important because he is constantly in the public eye, and has a personal life he does not want exposed to the world. She ends up regretting her decision when her roommate starts to ask questions about their dates and her repeated overnight stays with Christian. Ana realizes, even though they are not officially in a relationship, he already has a certain amount of control over her. Dominants wish to exert control over every aspect of their submissives lives, at work, at home, and in their relationships; they want to be the one controlling how much they
Cited: * James, E.L. Fifty Shades of Grey. City of publication : publisher, year of publication, medium of publication.