The traditional female fantasies of the beauties and the scumbags and the prototypes of modern women playing with the scumbags——Interpretation of "Dangerous Relationships" from the perspective of sociological gender

Chelsey 2022-12-20 14:14:27

"Dangerous Relationship" tells the story of the three main people in the age of European aristocracy.

The protagonist Valmon is a fancy bastard on the field of wind and moon. He has a superb technique but a corrupted morality. He regards the conquest of women as a manifestation of his masculine power and charm.

The hostess-Marquise Metei, I like this role very much. To some extent, she is a representative of the awakening of women's power. Since the death of her husband, she has been reluctant to marry again, because she knows that once a marriage is formed, women are bound to be relegated to a dominant role. So she refused to marry and played with others. Although Meteyi was merciless towards the same female, she did not give in in the end when faced with the threat of the male protagonist, and finally rejected the male protagonist’s sexual demands, because the male protagonist lost her beauty in her eyes. . She finally smiled playfully and told the hero that I would not succumb, so let's go to war. She demonstrated a strong personal autonomy in the movie.

It can be said that the role of the heroine is close to modernity.

The second heroine is Mrs. Douville. If the heroine is closer to modernity, then Madame Douville is the perfect female character of that era. She is chaste, kind, loyal, and emotional. It can be said that she is the ideal model of a good wife and a good mother in the fantasy of a straight man.

The story mainly revolves around these three people.

The male protagonist is a scumbag, who likes to use rhetoric and violence to conquer women. Because the second heroine is a typical good wife and mother, this aroused his desire to conquer. And the heroine I was happy to see the heroine two being tarnished, and kept urging the heroine. If the male lead succeeds, then the female lead is willing to have a relationship with the male lead.

But in the process of conquering the second heroine, the male protagonist suddenly felt true love, and he didn't want to hurt the second heroine anymore. At this time, the heroine Yi was disappointed with the male lead, because the male lead was immersed in love. Therefore, although the male protagonist succeeded in having a relationship with the female protagonist, the female protagonist rejected the male protagonist's sexual request.

As soon as the heroine attacks the hero, she thinks that the hero has become a naive boy immersed in love. Even the male protagonist himself did not want to believe that his wise life eventually became such a ridiculous person, so he severely hurt the female protagonist. The male protagonist trampled on the self-esteem of the heroine two, and went back and tried to forcefully conquer the heroine one with a victorious gesture, but the heroine saw that the male protagonist still loved the heroine two, so she rejected him. The male protagonist became angry, and finally went to war with the female protagonist and went to death. When he died, he still prayed for forgiveness from the second heroine.


The plot is summarized here. It looks like a simple romantic drama. What does it have to do with sociology?

Romantic love itself is also the research category of sociology.

Romantic love envisions a mysterious union of men and women. Men come from Venus and women come from Mars. The sexes of men and women are so different, but only by combining with each other can they supplement the mutual incompleteness of the soul and form a whole.

The birth of romantic love stems from the division of labor in an industrial society, where men dominate outside and women dominate inside. Men are responsible for rationality, women are responsible for emotions, and men and women are not tired from working together. This creates a gender division and union.

The plot in the movie is like this, the kind-hearted female protagonist finally conquered the male protagonist. Doesn’t the male protagonist know nothing about love but only exploit women? However, the second heroine finally impressed the hero with her kindness and sincerity, turning the hero from a scumbag into a conscience.

This is a proper feminine cool article. Just as men always have a plot to save the beauty by a hero, women always have a plot to save the hero. Such examples are common nowadays. In the recent arson and murder case, Lin Shengbin, why does his newly married wife like him? Isn't it because Lin Shengbin looks pitiful for losing his wife, do you want to save him?

Romantic love includes a female self-realization, but this self-realization needs to be done by men. This is a very contradictory thing. A woman needs self-realization, but her self-realization needs to be realized by dedicating herself and achieving others. So the second female protagonist died after being trampled on by the male protagonist. As far as she is concerned, love has become all of her self. If this thing is gone, she will be gone.

A man's achievement does not depend on his dedication. In terms of career, he is fighting himself. In terms of emotion, it must be to conquer a lot of women.

Therefore, romantic love embodies a kind of inequality. This inequality first comes from the division of labor between men and women in the economy, and the cultural illusions formed on this basis are also unequal. And this illusion exacerbates inequality.

But wait for you to criticize men.

The male protagonist finally evokes real emotions by the female protagonist, which is not necessarily just a pure fantasy of women. In fact, the world where men are in charge of sex does create a lack of male emotions. Men’s emotions are not allowed to be expressed, but men are also human and always need emotional comfort. But there is no such thing in the men's world, so men are indeed poor emotionally. To some extent, it does need to be rescued by women.

This is the story of the male protagonist and the female protagonist. The story itself is a very typical romantic story of a beautiful woman saving a scumbag.

The novelty of this story lies in the addition of the heroine one. I remember that "Sex and the City" discussed a topic at the beginning. Why do you think that men can separate love from doi, but women can't? So the heroine made a pioneering attempt. The heroine here is not in the flashy city of New York, but in the middle ages of gender inequality.

The heroine is deeply aware of gender inequality. She does not want to marry because she wants to be her own master. She is very loyal to her desires and will. Faced with the threat of the hero, she did not compromise, but to protect her own. Dignity chooses to go to war.

This makes the heroine's role image quite modern, but at the same time, because the heroine is tied to the frame system at the time, it is indeed inevitable that the heroine is competing. The heroine does have vicious attributes. But I think, with her intellect, if she becomes a man, she will choose not to manipulate people's hearts in the world of emotions, but to choose to have an aspiration in her career. That would be a matter for the hook-thief and the princes of the country-thief.

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Dangerous Liaisons quotes

  • Vicomte de Valmont: Be careful of the Marquise de Merteuil.

    Chevalier Danceny: You must permit me to treat with skepticism anything you have to say about her.

    Vicomte de Valmont: Nevertheless, I must tell you in this affair, we are both her creatures, as I believe her letters to me will prove. When you have read them, you may decide to circulate them.

  • Marquise de Merteuil: When it comes to marriage, one man is as good as the next. And even the least accomodating is less trouble than a mother.