The mirror reflected the woman’s face as she applied her mask. Foundation, powder, eye shadow, liner, mascara, blush, and lipstick are all applied as she satisfies her need to appear beautiful. In Susan Sontag’s passage, Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?, she explains the definition of beauty and the plight of contemporary women with respect to beauty. Women are overly concerned with superficial appearances and they do not express who and what they really are. Although beauty was once considered a virtue and can be considered a form of power, it is really a form of oppression that leaves women objectified and constantly working to be attractive.
The flappers enjoyed shaking up the Gibson girls. They loved all the looks and considered it attention. Since the woman before the flappers never wore makeup, it was considered quite a scandal to be wearing makeup. Woman that wore makeup were usually prostitutes in that day in
She maintains her power by the use of shame and guilt against the patients, making them feel horrible. Ratched has complete control of every aspect of the ward, even control of her very own emotions. Bromden describes Ratched as being like a machine, because she can control everything including her emotions. She does not let the other workers in the ward give any new ideas on how to control the ward. If they do try to give her new ideas, she will give them a cold, machine like face that will make them retreat by forgetting about their idea.
I have the bad dreams. I see people standing by my bed and I can hear people trying to come in and get me” (106) * “When an anorexic looks in the mirror, her own form looks large, rounded and curved… Others see her as thin-skeletal” (118) * “My head hair was dropping out in clumps on to my hairbrush” (119) * “The aim of everything is always to get back in control, to achieve and to be better” (122) * “Perception of beauty and happiness is not one from the inside, it is not inherent, but it is made up by our changing environment” (127) * “Do you see how you have made them pale and shaky?” (140) * “I want to prove to everyone wrong. I want to prove I’m right and get to Cambridge, and be on my own… I will increase my daily intake by 100 calories in week one, and then next week I will put it by another 100 and so on” (146) * “After weight is put on, things go inside, well away from public view” (166) * “It gives her a thumping head that night thinking about all the thousands of calories she has eaten just to fit in” (171) * “Grace decides to hide in her room. She decides that she will not be the sociable, drunken, college person that she though she should be, because that route has not been successful”
I know how we always want the next new makeup or hair product that’s going to make s look like the model in the commercial. Women can’t just run to the store in sweat pants because they value their appurtenance too much. Women don’t feel as confident when they don’t look nice, but men don’t really care either way. In the reading, “Do thin Models Warp Girls Body Image?” I agree with Nancy when she says thin models on the runway or on TV can cause very young girls to become anorexic or bulimic. Nancy says, “Girls are being bombarded with the message that they need to be super-skinny to be sexy.” (Hellmich 706) I believe that is very true when she says that but what young girls don’t realize is that you could be beautiful and sexy with any body type that you might have.
“A streak that runs round the room…as if it had been rubbed over and over.”(p.11). The mark is most likely from herself getting on her knees, and crawling around the room, and this might also be why she thinks she has the smell of the wallpaper in her hair. Close to the end of the story she is obsessed by the wallpaper,”…I have seen her! … it is the same woman, I know for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”(p.12) The fact that
“Added apathetic crony Shannon. ”C-Mon, Laurence and Marco waiting for us! “ She just gazed on them, scolding, hating and bushing her; she used on it who cares? If she herself doesn’t care. She changed her clothes and Annie helped her dry her hair.
She is able to escape from this depression metaphorically through this second self she has created behind the yellow wallpaper. “I pulled and she shook. I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that wallpaper […] I’ve got out at last, in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”(Gilman 320). As she describes her behavior trying to get the woman out, she vaguely admits that she has got out at last and no one can put her back.
As you can see, I’m wide awake now. So can you please get out so that I may change my clothes in private?” Rose glared at me for one last time before letting out a huge sigh. “Fine… Be quick.” “Much appreciated.” After being fully assured that Rose had completely left my room, I loosened my guard and pondered about the dream I had. “No point thinking about it now,” I shrugged while taking out the outfit that I had specially prepared for the eventful day
Wealth without morals isn’t success at all, or at least, not in my standards. I believe that humility is a grand sign of success. I believe that someone