An uncomfortable message is given by the movie Revolutionary Road. Within the movie,
the main characters, Frank and April Wheeler, begin as a spontaneous, enriching couple. They
have their first child and believe they could still reside in their exciting life. Before long, the
couple recognize that they start to behave like the society in which they live in. Angry conflicts
between the two arose in which closely relates to Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its
Discontents. Freud’s book explores the restrictions that society has delegated to individuals,
whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual. Revolutionary Road and Civilization and Its
Discontents both identify with the society-given limits to a liberating life, such as individuals
lacking the …show more content…
One particular rule is comparable to the bible’s Ten Commandments rule of “You shall not
commit adultery.” The act of an individual eloping with their spouse and then fornicating with
another is viewed as sacrilegious and causes irreversible damage to multiple lives.
Revolutionary Road displays many cases of unfaithfulness. Frank Wheeler decided to sleep with
one of the secretaries from work and explained it to his wife by saying, “it’s a simple case of
wanting to be a man again... some kind of neurotic, irrational need to prove something"
(Revolutionary Road). He felt a need to tell his wife due to his mind conforming to modern
civilizations standards of feeling guilt after committing this act. If society did not conceive such
a rigid setting, a culture of people having multiple intimate relationships is bound to transpire.
To Freud, he believed that it is in human nature that an individual would have multiple
partners, but it is modern culture that solidified these strict rules against it. He wrote, “Present
day civilization makes it plain that it will only permit sexual relationships on the basis of
the main characters, Frank and April Wheeler, begin as a spontaneous, enriching couple. They
have their first child and believe they could still reside in their exciting life. Before long, the
couple recognize that they start to behave like the society in which they live in. Angry conflicts
between the two arose in which closely relates to Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its
Discontents. Freud’s book explores the restrictions that society has delegated to individuals,
whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual. Revolutionary Road and Civilization and Its
Discontents both identify with the society-given limits to a liberating life, such as individuals
lacking the …show more content…
One particular rule is comparable to the bible’s Ten Commandments rule of “You shall not
commit adultery.” The act of an individual eloping with their spouse and then fornicating with
another is viewed as sacrilegious and causes irreversible damage to multiple lives.
Revolutionary Road displays many cases of unfaithfulness. Frank Wheeler decided to sleep with
one of the secretaries from work and explained it to his wife by saying, “it’s a simple case of
wanting to be a man again... some kind of neurotic, irrational need to prove something"
(Revolutionary Road). He felt a need to tell his wife due to his mind conforming to modern
civilizations standards of feeling guilt after committing this act. If society did not conceive such
a rigid setting, a culture of people having multiple intimate relationships is bound to transpire.
To Freud, he believed that it is in human nature that an individual would have multiple
partners, but it is modern culture that solidified these strict rules against it. He wrote, “Present
day civilization makes it plain that it will only permit sexual relationships on the basis of