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Religious and moral issues in soaps and dramas
- Essay length: 433 words
- Submitted: 04/09/2003
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Religious and moral issues in soaps and dramas
A soap or soap opera is a programme that originally takes its name from American programmes that were sponsored by soap companies. These programmes were targeted at mainly a female audience. They are serials that are screened several times a week and have interlocking stories based in a community. Soaps and religious issues go hand in hand because there are so many different issues that the people who watch the soap find interesting, or can even relate to the issue. People want to see how other people cope in different situations.
The soap Eastenders revolves around a community in the east end of London whose main characters live and work around a market square and a public house called the Queen Victoria. One moral issue in Eastenders is that Kat Slater is pregnant by an ex-boyfriend and doesn't know what to do with the baby. She hasn't told the father and is considering her options, whether to have an abortion or to keep it. The only other person who knows is her friend Alfie. Christian values teach that abortion is wrong but it seems to her to be the only
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