Rebel Without A Cause: A Critical Analisis On The 1950s

“How can a guy grow up in a circus like that?” drunk, James Deans character, Jim, in Rebel without a Cause, leans up against the window, looking in on his mother and father and grandmother, fighting as soon as the door closed and pretending to be hunky-dory when it opens. “You’re tearing me apart.” When you squeeze in on all sides, something’s got to give. The soc

ial pressure bearing down on all sides, influenced by the media, by the press, touted in the ladies home journal, if you just do this, you’ll be happy, if you just buy this soap, this house, this washer and dryer. Then you will be a good American, and America salutes you. The Image of Rosie the Rivetter was replaced by Rosie the aproned bed-folder and dinner-maker. People felt stuck. And the teenagers knew it, could feel it around them, changing the world that their parents were trying so hard to hold in place, that their parents tried so hard not to understand. Jim’s parents, having been rushed to the precinct from the country club, the mother is seen as this source of pent up anger, passive aggressive frustration, yet in the next scene she is serving waffles in a yellow apron before sending Jim off to school, his parents, not knowing what to do or how to do it, tried to follow the media and the newspaper columns and what the ‘experts’ said. “Don’t I buy you everything you want?” asks his dad. And what else is a father supposed to do?

Rock and Roll, an outlet, also stirred the teen population into a united force. American bandstand popularized what was ‘hip. Everyone knew the same dance moves, the same songs. Loved more for the beat than anything, songs like ‘At the Hop’ and ‘Rock around the Clock’ show the crave to get out, stay out, party, dance. It symbolized the new kid generation, more united than anything we had in the 80s, with flake groups, punk rock, heavy metal, or anything we have today, the kids took to the music and the dance floor with a passion. Pent up energy has to come out, in sex, in anger, in dancing like a crazy fool and shakin’ those hips. But there was a drive, as heard in Catcher in the Rye and even in Rebel with out a Cause, an echo of the kids searching for something bigger, something that will make life worth living. The man at the planetarium says that human evens “seem episodes of lit

Some topics in this essay:
Rebel Cause, Rock Roll, Suburban Sickness, Rosie Rivetter, Hugh Hefner’s, Chapel Hill, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, rebel cause, rock roll, Society Playboy, Montgomery Alabama, roll outlet, rock roll outlet,