In my last post, I choose three artifacts dealing with my major at ODU. The three that I choose were Style magazine, 5th Ave in Manhattan, and The Tyra Show. After viewing my classmates blogs and Fridays class, I've decided to choose another artifact as my topic to analyze. Instead, Im going to write about "Sex and the City" the movie and series. I decided to change my topic because it was the original idea that I had and I feel that it relates more closley to my major and I can get more information from it. The series "Sex and the City" was a popular, edgy, look into the life of four woman from different walks of life living in the wonderful city of New York. The show portrays all the different ways a woman can represent herself and be bold in the big city. I believe this artifact will be fun and interesting to analyze because I love the series and I see it from more than one perspective; as a viewer and as a woman.
The series shows that women can be smart, happy, ronchy, sad, wonderful, and sexually charged all at the same time. The series is about four completly different women who become bestfriends and go through the day to day challenges of life and love. Carrie is the narrator and the writer who has trouble finding the perfect man; many times she had love, but it always led her back to the same man that, in the movie, she ends up marrying. Samantha is the older, somewhat wiser one who loves to have fun and thinks that sex is a game that needs to be played often. Charlotte is little miss perfect that has it all together, at least thats what she thinks until her marriage falls apart due to her inablitity to have kids. Finally, Miranda is the lost soul, feminist, that hates men and winds up getting pregnant by a guy she meets in a bar that she would never go for. All of these traits about the characters are elements that I can analyze and relate them to real woman in society. There isnt much evidence that shows that their lives were different than reality, but there are aspects that are unrealistic. Also , their is a lack of diversity in the series and they rarley discussed religion or culture.
In conclusion, Sex and the City is and artifact that explores different women and their struggles and acivenments over many years. Each character portrays a different women in society and how they deal with day to day stuggles. Writing about this artifact will be interesting because the elements are fun an a non-traditional which goes with my sytle.
