It is to help the readers decide whether it‟s a good book to read or not. The significance of this study is to analyze the book which has been phenomenal since its release. This paper also aims to show how fan fiction stories dominate the world of literature nowadays. This paper aims to help the people who are studying literature and those who want to read a review of the trilogy. The most personal thing she shared about herself is that she likes to eat Nutella straight from the jar. James is described as a private person by reporters.
She continuously thanked her husband, Niall, as he supports her writing career. She said that the success of the books is “completely and utterly overwhelming.” The trilogy is her first ever published work.
She used to be the writer in the TV crime dramas called Silent Witness and Wire in the Blood. James who was first known as “Snowqueen‟s Icedragon” is a mother of two. The third and final installment, Fifty Shades Freed, shows the lovers‟ journey as a married couple while Christian struggles with his issues. The second book, Fifty Shades Darker revealed the mystery behind Christian as he learned to love Anastasia. It shows their journey as Christian introduced the virginal Anastasia into the world of BDSM. It talks about the deepening relationship of the college student, Anastasia Steele and multibillionaire CEO of Grey Enterprises, Christian Grey. Fifty Shades of Grey is the first installment in the erotic trilogy. Because of The Writers‟ Coffee Shop‟s limited marketing budget, they relied on online publicity. The second book was published in September 2011 and the third one followed in January 2012. It was published by The Writers‟ Coffee Shop, a virtual publisher in Australia. In May 2011, it became a print-on-demand paperback. The first book was published as an e-book. The Master of the Universe was separated into three parts and is now called Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. After a while, she rewrote the fan fiction and changed the title to Fifty Shades. James later re-published her work in her own website,. Due to the fan fiction‟s strong sexual content, it was taken down on the site.
James, the author of the controversial trilogy, used the name, Snowqueen‟s Icedragon, as she published the fan fiction online. The Twilight Saga‟s main characters, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, are called as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in this fan fiction. It was first entitled Master of the Universe.
So how did it all start? Where did Fifty Shades come from? The Fifty Shades Trilogy was developed from a multi-part series of a Twilight fan fiction (Morrison, 2011). Some readers are disgusted with the book while some are selfadmitted fans of it.
Fans started to be curious about the controversial trilogy. For avid readers, especially the fans of the best seller The Twilight Saga, the fact that Fifty Shades Trilogy is a product of a fan fiction just piqued their interest more. It is not really a secret regarding where the Fifty Shades Trilogy came from.
The Fifty Shades Trilogy is a controversial novel that gained popularity worldwide and has also gained good and bad reviews from the critics and readers which has led people to believe that the novel is generally immoral and downgrades literature with its lack of originality. The books were said to be crude, immoral and a downgrade of literature. Moreover, it was criticized for its sexual content and use of BDSM (Bondage and Discipline/Dominance and Submission), a type of a sexual relationship that involves the use of handcuffs, bondage and other things that would restrain one‟s sexual partner. The trilogy has been controversial for its lack of originality. In addition to the trilogy‟s popularity, it is a well-known fact that it is just a product of a Twilight Saga fan fiction. What made the book so famous? Aside from its sexual content, women who have read it were immediately smitten by the rich CEO, Christian Grey, the protagonist‟s lover. Average people and celebrities of all ages - from Selena Gomez to Kim Kardashian – have read it. Since the release of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, the books have gone phenomenal. “Fifty Shades‟ is getting a lot of people thinking and talking more openly about sex, sexuality, desire and interest.” said Debby Herbenick, the author of “Sex made easy” and a research scientist in Indiana University (Butter, 2012). The Aspects of Immorality in the Fifty Shades Trilogy