Women portrayal plays a large part in Sidney Sheldon's “Rage of Angels”. This novel told the different side of women,as a heroine that is equal to men. Sidney usually illustrates the lack of dominant female characters in his novels, because women are often seen as inferior to men in society.
The story begins with a beautiful woman, Jennifer Parker. She works as an Assistant District Attorney for the State of New York, in Manhattan. Because of her mistake as the criminal defense attorney, she became the victim of Michael Moretti’s conspiracy, one of the most powerful organized crime families in America. She was accused of being involved with the mafia headed by Moretti and took a bribe from him.
That was the beginning of Jennifer’s ruin life. She was fired and could not find a job anywhere until she met Adam Warner, who then changed her life. he decided Jennifer was not guilty of taking bribe. However, Jennifer's life did not get better; she had to face terrible struggle to survive in New York City. One of her big problems came from Robert Di Silva, a brilliant district attorney who had vowed to destroy Jennifer’s carrier as attorney because of her guilty.
The complication continued as Jennifer fell in love with Adam Warner, her fellow attorney. He was being groomed for the Senate and promoted into the White House. It grew more complicated when Jennifer met Warner's wife. After discovering Mary Bath was pregnant, Adam told Jennifer that she had to keep on his marriage a little longer; he never knew that Jennifer was pregnant too. They broke up and Jennifer decided to become a single mom. Unexpectedly, Jennifer's son was kidnapped, and in desperation he asked Moretti for help and as an exchange she agreed to be Moretti family's lawyer.
Jennifer's life soon became more terrible and turned into a nightmare when her son died because of head injury. The story ended up when Jennifer was shot by Michael, who finally knew her affair with Warner. Warner also discovered that Jennifer's son was actually his son that he never realized it before because of his promotion as the president of the United States.
The overall meaning of this story is portrayed through the use of literary devices which influence its feminist theme. The woman character in the story is extraordinary, such as when Jennifer got desperate in looking for a job but she tried to be independent. The woman in this novel is seen as independent, tough, and hard worker under the pressure of the men. Moreover, in this novel woman becomes a heroine that is able to conquer the men using her intelligence. This is seen when Jennifer wins the court. This time Jennifer wins the court over Robert Di Silva and it seems like David who had slain Goliath.
The setting of the story is a big town, New York City. Big cities usually deal with individualism, modernism and freedom, which keep the reader idea that it's not easy for women to live alone and work the whole day to achieve their dream.
There is a symbol in the novel which relates to the meaning of this interpretation of the story. For example, the writer wrote this book at 1980’s. In the late 1980's, when the mafia organization was spreading from Italy into America, it declined because FBI and the US government tried to destroy them. In the novel, it was related to the situation at that time. The idea of chaos in the city is exemplified by the battle between government represented by lawyer and organized crime families represented by mafia.
To sum up, Rage of Angels illustrates many interesting ideas about woman portrayal in a big city like New York, and also symbolically in the society where we live in. through the use of literary devices, Rage of Angels tells a suspenseful story that can be interpreted to mean many things. Among those things is the idea that women are as well as men in the society and equality can be achieved if both of them reconstructed the mindset and form in society.
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