Beauty Ugliness Or Beauty

of the literary elements that can be utilized. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the contrast of beauty and ugliness in certain character’s traits to explain the effect that their sin has in their lives which allows further insight into the character’s life and a better understanding of the use of the characters in the book. Hawthorne’s contrasting use of beauty and ugliness in Hester Prynne reveals her inner strength and the effect she allows her sin to have in her life. In the beginning

individual parties are detailed, descriptions hold no more excitement or beauty. Whilst Anne Fleming admits ‘Evelyn sadly confided that he got no pleasure from natural beauty’, his description of the airship party focuses upon how new modern beauty defies natural beauty. ‘Acres of inflated silk blotted out the sky’ and ‘lights of other cars arriving lit up the uneven grass.’ This holds a certain nostalgia for pastoral beauty, and with the country landscapes of Hetton and Brideshead casting a great

digging down all those aspects that make women inferiority, we may find beauty as a reason not sufficient but necessary, which explain that. Beauty as an instrument that may account for women's inequality, and its relation with hierarchies and social roles. This essay explores some forms what understudy women's subordination, specifically, the idea of representation of beauty as a social construction like gender. Beauty has been and will be something that we categorize, as a result, we create

meaning of “ugliness” in visual art. Beauty and ugliness play different roles in aesthetics, despite their relationship to one another. Aesthetics can be described as the science of beauty and ugliness (Langfeld, 1920). Historically, ugliness has been seen as an aesthetic predicate, the contradictory of the beautiful. This essay will discuss the meaning of ugliness in visual art, by using various psychological views, to truly understand what it means to aesthetically experience ugliness. According

Throughout all of history there has been an ideal beauty that most have tried to obtain. But what if that beauty was impossible to grasp because something was holding one back. There was nothing one could do to be ‘beautiful’. Growing up and being convinced that one was ugly, useless, and dirty. For Pecola Breedlove, this state of longing was reality. Blue eyes, blonde hair, and pale white skin was the definition of beauty. Pecola was a black girl with the dream to be beautiful. Toni Morrison takes

The Ugly and Beauty Inside The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a story filled with many emotions that help to bring the characters to life with many of them going through hardships and feelings of great loss. Death states, “I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both” (Zusak 491). The characters in The Book Thief such as Liesel, Hans, Rosa, Rudy, and Max find themselves in situations where they have to act a certain

Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray shows us the triumph of a corrupting influence over a virtuous one. In the novel, Lord Henry’s influence over Dorian overpowers Basil’s and leads to Dorian’s eventual demise. In analyzing Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the theme of good versus evil reflects off of Lord Henry’s and Basil’s interactions with Dorian and Dorian’s internal struggles, thus exemplifying that a person with weak virtues will falter in the face of hedonistic temptation

how the characters of Pecola and Claudia regard the standards of beauty in their society, having blue eyes and blonde hair, and how it affects them. From Pecola’s point of view, people are disgusted by her when they see her ugliness. She spends “long hours [...] looking in the mirror, trying to discover the secret of the ugliness” feeling bad for herself because that ugliness makes “her ignored and despised” (45). To fix her ugliness, Pecola thinks that she needs to have blue eyes because “if she

the little things that he did that made my opinion change on him. You can't judge others on their appearance because there might be beauty inside of them or ugliness inside of them either one. The other contradiction in the Tao Te Ching was “good and evil”. This concept can kind of connect back to the “ugliness and beauty” in the ugliness kind of being evil and beauty being good. Of course, as it has already been expressed before by the author of this book, there are two sides to everything. When

Names of Beauty, Crispin Sartwell describes beauty in the simplest of terms, “beauty is the object of longing” (3). The Greek Goddess Aphrodite has been associated with beauty, love and sexual desire since seemingly the beginning of time, and the pure, Aphrodisiac ideas of beauty will never truly fade; therefore, Aphrodite will never fade away from our culture, “Her stay would be never-ending, her work never complete,” (Paris 13). The connection between the goddess and the ideas of beauty is clear