Jane Austen’s classic is both an original species and a classic of its genus—the power-inversion metamyth. Many romances follow the same dramatic arc: A powerful man desires the less powerful woman and, by falling in love, loses his dominion, making their union possible. It’s Beauty and the Beast, where the small woman tames the great monster. It’s Jane Eyre, where the rich aloof nobleman melts for the working-class nanny. “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex,” Oscar Wilde said. “Sex is about power.” Fifty Shades is a power struggle, too, one in which sex is the setting for the
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Central story for K-Drama as well. Power inversion using your sex usually seems to involve woman taming a Amanda because of traditional patriarchal structures in society.
