Inside - people’s inner beauty
Outside- how the people look like
Narcissism- inordinate fascination with oneself
Enchantment- something that enchants
Virtue - moral excellence
In Susan Sontag essay, she shows the meaning of beauty for women and how society treats beauty. She uses history to deliver her opinion to the readers, like “the Greeks to distinguish between a person’s ‘inside’ and ‘outside.’” The Greeks thought that if a person was so intelligent, brave and seductive, then that person must be very ugly. In early Christian time, Christianity considered beauty as one of moral virtues.
I agree with this essay. In this world, many people pay more attention on the appearance. They even use the appearance to judge other people. Sontag tells us that beauty is very important for women, because women are often being judged in beauty from their body parts, but the men are totally different. They are being judged as a whole, not only their appearance but also their intelligence. Beauty has become a burden for women. They think that only dress up themselves can show their intelligence. I hope that there will be no more judgment for one’s appearance. That’s what the other girls hope too. Women’s real charm will be proved by time.
How do you think about beauty of women?
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women do in fact carry a heavy burden for beauty in today's society, but that is their nature. women do everything they can to advertise themselves as being great, and thank go that they do. women beauty in every society is a driving force of the ordinary man in every society. women spend a lot of time on themselves for the sole reason of attracting a decent man. that is where the whole women being the driving force of society comes to play. men on the flip side have to become decent enough to be able to accomplish a decent woman.
In today's society beauty unfortunatly is defined to be someone who has big curves especiallly in the butt and the breasts. Women are very self conscious of the way they look for society continuously portrays beautfy with sexuality. I think that it's absurd of how society has come to define beauty as sexy. I think beauty is defined from the inside, the inner beauty is what brings out the outer beauty of a person. Women carry the burden of not being "perfect" for society therefore continuously put themselves down.
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