Soap Operas

Lisa Soukup Mrs. Kenn AP: Language and Composition 6 September 2000 Take everyday life and exploit it by creating pompous over blown melodramas. Drag out exaggerated plots over a series of months. Have only the most beautiful actors and actresses. Do all this and you are guaranteed to be a successful daytime soap opera that reels in millions of loyal viewers. The common daytime soap opera reels in the bored stay-at-home parent, the easily influenced summer teen …

…busty and beautiful. What normal person wouldn’t look to the sex appeal of stars with million dollar wardrobes as a model of how to look and act. For decades daytime soap operas have been captivating audiences with their steamy plots, their sensational ability to drag out these plots, and their sexy casts acting out these plots. All these elements combined makes one powerful bait drawing in avid viewers hook line and sinker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**