With reference to the soap operas you have studied, discuss the representations of two social groups, which are offered to audiences.

Soap opera is a form of serial television, they are on going stories which run from one episode to the next, keeping our interest by posing questions or setting up conflicts which will not be resolved until the next episode. Soap opera works as a more open text than many other forms of television, this therefore means that there is a more complicated hierarchy of discourses. <Tab/>Soap opera is meant …

…do not adopt feminine qualities will be portrayed at the bottom of the hierarchy, this is very different to other genres of television and is probably due to the openness of the text and the room for interpretation that is present for the audience. Women are usually privileged over men unless they discard their feminine qualities and adopt masculine qualities. Women are usually rewarded for virtues that other forms of genre would punish them for.