Comparison Of Double Indemnity And Red Wind

Literature is the mirror of society Literature is not only something that based on authors' imaginations, it also shapes or reveals the social reality for a certain period of time. Literature styles have always been changing through decades due to the trend of society. In some literatures, we see the authors portray the life in society through a certain character setting or convey a message to a certain group of people. But some literatures assist to shape the society culture by conveying idea of righteousness and immorality to the audience after showing how the society looks like to themselves. Genres is also something that related to the society trend and it is adding up along times. Simple example about the Facebook comments. Because

The settings of characters can also be a way to convey information to the audience. It could depends on the society background or a representation of a certain kind of group. For instance, both "Double Indemnity" by James M. Cain, and "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler contains the classic noir setting of femme fatales. During the 40s, women have changed their social position from householders and being treated unequally to employed and place equally role in the society as men. But there still are slightly inequality about women even though they enter the labor force during and after the war. In "Double Indemnity" and "Red Wind", the authors challenge the stereotype of woman for being caretaker. Instead they indentify that woman can play roles in the society equally like men. In "Double Indemnity", Phyllis is known as the indirectly killed her own husband. She is definitely not a stereotype woman, instead she is beautiful and leads the main character into danger. Phyllis uses this pity to gain the insurance agent’s trust, then ask him to kill her husband for her and the money. But in the end she gets out of the situation after using the agent. She has her own opinion and knows what she is doing. She is not happy about her marriage and tries to get out of it with taking some benefit. This femme fatale character does overthrow the householder image of a woman. The society during the 40s to 50s cares less about inequality treatment to women. Therefore female fatales in a fictions or films do not regard as illogical to the audience. Besides that, it will shape people's mind by enhancing audiences' respect to female. By molding characters to achieve the purpose of changing people's opinion about something in the society. Society in shaped by the literatures by communicating with people in