Revolutionary Road

  Write a 1500 word essay on one of the topics below.         1 . “Revolutionary Road is a scathing critique of 1950s everyday gender politics.” Discuss this statement through an analysis of Revolutionary Road using relevant theories of the everyday. 2.How does motherhood shape (or perhaps transform) everyday life for two of the following female characters: April (in Revolutionary Road), Brenda (in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), Maxine (in Being John Malkovich). 3.Lefebvre argues that the everyday “weighs more heavily” on women, the working classes and youth (“Everyday and Everydayness” 10). Do you agree? Explore Lefebvre’s contention through an analysis of one of these social groups in either Revolutionary Road, Things: A Story of the Sixties, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning or White Noise.