Sex And The City Character Analysis

HBO broke tradition with the introduction of a female dominated TV series, Sex and the City. Although there have been countless shows geared to female audience, Sex and the City shed light on issues of female stereotypes and really focused on breaking away from these roles. The show offers complex versions of postmodern female identity. The identities of the show 's four main female characters are structured in direct relation to sexual, familial and economic freedom and in opposition to patriarchy. Three of these characters represent a vase majority of positions woman struggle with in society.

Charlotte York 's character represents the repressed female role of woman 's place being in the home raising children. Charlotte 's goals are focused on a very old world concept of females in the household, she strives to be defined by marriage and aims to have a man take care of her. She struggles with finding self worth when her picture perfect marriage fails and issues of fertility surface. Her life is shattered when what she strives for most, to be a wife and mother, seem …show more content…
Rather than broaden the horizon, they continue to discriminate against the idea that female characters are able to achieve more than finding love. Although shows like Sex and the City break the barriers to expose raw truth about woman experiences, but majority of poplar media remains stuck in their ways of portraying woman 's main objects as finding love. The industry state their demographic is geared towards male viewers ages 20 to 34 because this is hardest audience to reach. Programming is based around appealing to that demographic and in appealing to that group woman are portrayed in a more sexual, less intellectual manor. By intentionally 'dumbing down ' female characters to appeal to a male audience, not only is main stream media repressing woman, but sending the message to men that it 's okay to consider woman in this