Beauty Jane Martin Analysis

“Beauty” by Tony Hoagland was written in 1998. In this poem, Hoagland expresses his feelings on how women care too much about physical appearances. Throughout his poem he tells the story through the eyes of a brother of a girl who learns to love herself for who she is. Hoagland’s poem stresses the importance that beauty goes deeper than the surface. Throughout his poem, Tony Hoagland uses many literary devices to perfect his poem. These devices include the message, tone, imagery, figures of speech, and personification.

Jealousy in Characters Authors of stories can manipulate the emotions of their characters to express meaning. Jealousy is one that is often used to bring out the negative aspects in the characters or in life in general. Jealousy is a powerful emotion to use and implement because it is something the reader can connect to. If an author is able to connect to a reader in that way it makes the message of his story all the more powerful. John Knowles, the author of A Separate Peace, a popular book with deep meaning, demonstrates that talent when he illustrates jealousy and its dire effects in his character, Gene Forrester.

Connie’s mother, having aged out of her prime, was jealous of her daughter’s beauty, criticizing her whenever the opportunity presented itself. Connie’s mother would yell at her younger daughter, “ ‘Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you’re so pretty?’ ” (312). This constant scolding chipped away at Connie’s confidence, leaving her yearning for affirmation, someone to say she is “such a pretty girl”

Not only would this relate to her, but it relates to the upbringing of her daughter as well. By having the virtue of honesty, Carla would raise and expect her daughter to share this virtue as well, flourishing life for the both of

Jealousy is a trait that seems to have lingered through human nature for centuries, and caused the closing of some human relationships. In A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses character growth to elucidate the theme of “ Jealousy destroys human relationships”. The first example of John Knowles using character growth to convey the theme is when he starts to show Gene’s lack of trust and constant paranoia towards Phineas. Gene says, “ I was starting to feel like Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn’t help envying him” (25). Because of Phineas’s great tactics of solving issues and of his loveable personality, Gene’s hatred grows quickly towards Phineas. Another display of this is when Gene says, “ He wanted to share everything with me,

In the play “Reasons to be Pretty” by Neil LaBute, the opening scene shows a couple fighting about what seems to be a petty thing. Greg, the main character, told a coworker that he believed that his girlfriend, Stephanie, “hasn’t got a face like that girl’s- maybe her face is just regular- but I wouldn’t trade her for a million bucks” (LaBute 10). Throughout the book Greg goes through normal drama with people he would not normally find drama with. It feels although Greg is going down a downhill slope. He loses people, and he gains allies in unlikely people. LaBute tells the tale about a lovers quarrel gone wrong, and leaves the readers wondering what will happen to all of the couples in the play. This play shows the trail of normal dramatic events for one man by the people closest to him determined from the given circumstances, Greg’s values, and the resolution.

The author shows us that despite her attractiveness and exquisiteness, she may merely be deemed a shallow, secretive and opportunistic person.

The portrayal of many stereotypes in a cliche set of fake, made up, pageant girls within Libba Bray’s novel, Beauty Queens, surprisingly moves away from this idea of satire when looking at the bare bones of the storyline. It’s a simple story of women, moving past the patriarchy they’ve been raised where beauty is everything, growing into who they truly are and celebrating their differences as humans, all while surviving being stranded on an island.

Despite Carla’s warnings, Bethany continues to believe that it would make her happiest to be beautiful, basically asserting that the incessant male attention, kindness based solely on physical beauty, and being part of the beautiful “league” (40) are far more desirable than the ability to make conversation, or for that matter, anything she has in her current life.

In Alice Walker's "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self”, her view of beauty changes through different stages of her life. In her childhood Walker has a misunderstanding of beauty. She is concerned with superficial signs of beauty and fails to appreciate her inner beauty. A tragic mishap as a young child leaves her right eye blind and deformed. She enters a period of depression her life, living her life in shame and disappointment because she believes her beauty to be lost. Even getting surgery as an adult doesn’t help defeat her demons. She continues to struggle until she finds her inner beauty through her daughter’s love. As a child, Alice Walker got her definition of beauty from her family, in her teens she turned to her peers to define beauty, her perception finally changed again in adulthood when she discovered an inner beauty.

The term jealousy shows up among the protagonist character, Grace Ansley, who is against Alida Slade. They are two middle aged women visiting their daughters in Rome. Alida and her husband Delphin’s daughter is named Jenny Slade; Grace’s daughter is named Barbara. Alida Slade is of a high social status and Grace Ansley is not. They are old friends and haven’t seen each other for a while. Ansley had a relationship with Slade’s husband Delphin before they were married. At the end of the story it is revealed that Ansley and Delphin actually had a child, who is Barbara. “I had Barbara”(1213).

But jealousy, and especially sexual jealousy, brings with it a sense of shame and humiliation. For this reason it is generally hidden; if we perceive it we ourselves are ashamed and turn our eyes away; and when it is not hidden it commonly stirs contempt as well as pity. Nor is this all. Such jealousy as Othello’s

Thesis Statement: Arthur Miller conveys of the theme of jealousy by how it can ruin lives by abigail was jealous of elizabeth proctor Also John Putnam is moved by jealousy by he is jealous of others people's property.

But Carla didn't like to do what her mother’s expected from her. Carla got into her mother's head that attending a Bay Area technical school. Then Carla begun taking a computer class. She met a young man, Danny, who is also mentally disabled. Carla and Danny became friends.

Beauty has been a word that people use to described objects, things and most important people. Beauty can be defined in so many ways. The play “Beauty” written by Jane Martin has more than just one meaning. The author uses beauty to be her main objective that makes almost every situation in the play revolve around “beauty.” Being that beauty is considered something almost all women want and it can lead to devastation when you get greedy and envious about it, as it did to both Carla and Bethany.