B & T & Argumentative Essay

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice came out in theaters at a time when the world was beginning to change due to the power that women were given allowing them to take their lives into their own hands. The power was given to them in the form of a pill that let them dictate how they controlled their own fertility. This meant that now they had the option of choosing to take a different path than that of the traditional quintessential housewife. Before the invention of birth control which even after its invention took a little more than a decade to legalize for public use in all respects, women were already having sex before marriage. The fact was that society still looked down on it and unplanned pregnancies resulted in women being forced to marry, get an abortion which was illegal and at the time not so safe, put the child up for adoption or raise it as a single mother meaning the baby would be considered illegitimate.
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At first it shows how tense and uncomfortable they are with the openness that is the essence of the institute but after they open up and let their insecurities go they feel liberated. As soon as Bob and Carol return home from the institute they can’t wait to share what they experienced at the institute with their best friends Ted and Alice another married couple around the same age as they are. The two couples go to dinner and Bob and Carol tell Ted and Alice about their new life style, Ted and Alice look at each other in a state of disbelief, at first Ted thinks that Bob and Carol are messing with them and cracks jokes about it as if going along with the joke. Ted and Alice soon realize their friend’s change in life style is no joke and slowly come to grips with their old friends who have come back as completely different people whose new open and happy demeanor towards life makes them question their