Double Standards In Jane Martin's Beauty

Because of this, she begs Bethany not to wish for beauty, because it comes with way more problems than Bethany can handle. Being a beautiful aspiring model, Carla receives a lot of attention from men. Bethany sees this attention as a good thing since Carla has so many dates that she has trouble keeping up with the men that she’s been with. This is seen at the very beginning of the play when Martin opens up with Carla uttering the line “In love with me? You’re in love with me?

When it comes time to make the final wish, Martin makes it clear that Bethany has her mind set on beauty. Unsuccessfully, Carla attempts one last time to dissuade her, then Bethany unleashes the genie. After an explosion, the two girls regain consciousness and realize they have switched bodies; Bethany’s wish for beauty has come true. Although Bethany did not mean to become Carla, she still ultimately got her wish.

Jane Eyre was written in a time where the Bildungsroman was a common form of literature. The importance was that the mid-nineteenth century was, "the age in which women were, for the first time, ranked equally with men as writers within a major genre" (Sussman 1). In many of these novels, the themes were the same; the protagonist dealt with the same issues, "search for autonomy and selfhood in opposition to the social constraints placed upon the female, including the demand for marriage" (Sussman). Jane Eyre fits this mould perfectly. Throughout the novel, the reader follows Jane Eyre on a journey of development from adolescence to maturity to show that a desire for freedom and change motivates people to search for their own identity.

From the beginning, Carla was known for being able to attract men with her beauty. The reader could infer this because in the opening act she is on the phone with a guy who claims to be in love with her. Later on in the play, it is also mentioned that she is model that has an opportunity to become associated with Ralph Lauren. This again easily characterizes Carla as a young, beautiful woman. Carla also shows to have a sense of compassion towards Bethany.

Throughout history and literature, men have been trying to make decisions for women and have also treated women as inferiors. Two books that do a superb job of demonstrating this theme are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. Jane Eyre, set in the 1800’s, is the story of an orphan girl growing up and becoming a governess. All does not go smoothly when Jane falls in love with the master of the house. Drama ensues in this gothic classic as Jane decides how to handle her situation. The Good Earth, on the other hand, follows the life of Wang Lung from a young adult to a grandfather. Along the way, Wang Lung marries O-lan and together they

Whilst McEwan demonstrates how women are victims of society in that they are unable to achieve a high social position and class without the aid of men, Bronte focuses on how women reach a position of power through their own source of status and wealth. Emily, Cecilia and Briony all represent a society dependent on men to achieve wealth and status, as they all become members of the upper class through the wealth and inheritance of Jack Tallis. Emily’s ineffectiveness and lack of status and authority is emphasised by the contrast between her and her husband, as despite her husband’s absence from the family, he still has more control over the children than she does. With Jack’s presence, the household is described as ‘settled around a fixed point’, however without him it is ‘a drama

Beauty is a fundamental part of modern society, but has beauty become so important that it is essential to living a fulfilled and satisfying life? Jane Martin, the playwright who wrote the ten minute play Beauty, addresses the issue of the significance of beauty through the central conflict in her story. The two main characters Carla and Bethany represent beauty versus brains. Bethany, the brainy accountant, is jealous of her friend Carla, the beautiful, up and coming model. Bethany believes that Carla is living a more rewarding life that she is. To Carla’s dismay, Bethany uses her last wish granted from the genie in the lamp to become beautiful. Although the ten minute play Beauty is in unrealistic in nature, it provokes the audience to consider

Charlotte Bronte created one of the first feminist novels--Jane Eyre--of her time period when she created the unique and feminist female heroine, Jane Eyre. Throughout the novel, Jane becomes stronger as she speaks out against antagonists. She presses to find happiness whether she is single or married and disregards society’s rules. The novel begins as Jane is a small, orphan child living with her aunt and cousins due to the death of her parents and her uncle. Jane 's aunt--Mrs. Reed--degrades her as she favors her biological children. Jane 's aunt--Mrs. Reed--degrades her as she favors her biological children. Her cousin--John Reed--hits her and then Mrs. Reed chooses to punish her instead and sends her to the room in which her uncle

The concept of beauty is shown to be highly valued in the story and the society that the story is set in. For example, Beauty chooses to marry the third and final man because he is a handsome scholar. Beauty is tricked into being pushed down a well because of beauty. “’Sister, come and look into the well. We will see which of us is the more beautiful’” (Lin Lan 129). They do not compare who is most skillful or who is the most intelligent; they value beauty so much that the concept is the only thing they decide to be compared on. The scholar, Beauty’s husband, is shown to also cherish beauty. He is horrified to see Pock Face instead of his beautiful wife and reacts very dramatically. “’Goodness! How changed you are! Surely you are not Beauty. My wife was never such a monster. Good Heavens!’” (Lin Lan 129). These examples serve as indicators of how much the characters, and therefore the story, are so intensely focused on the concept of physical

  The Victorian era in England marked a period of unprecedented technological, scientific, political, and economic advancement.  By the 1840s, the English had witnessed remarkable industrial achievements including the advent of the railways and the photographic negative.  They had witnessed the expansion of the Empire, and, as a result, were living in a time of great economic stability.  Yet they had also seen thousands of people starving-and dying-due to the Irish potato famine and poor conditions and benefits in British factories and witnessed the entire order of society questioned as the working classes began to demand representation in Parliament.    The English also experienced biological

Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre in 1847 during Britain’s Victorian era, a time when the societal culture was patriarchal, meaning men were considered to be superior to women in all parts of life. In general society was guided by etiquette and considered prudish, hypocritical, single minded, and arrogant. The culture of this era was defined predominantly by two main characteristics. First by the rigid caste structure, which prevented most from advancing beyond the station held by their families. Second, the extreme polarization of gender roles, especially in the upper classes. Men were expected to be honorable, enterprising, intelligent, loyal, and morally strong. However, women were expected to be chaste and in the constant company of a chaperone

In this play the main characters are two best friends that live completely different lives, one named Carla and the other named Bethany. Carla is a young and upcoming beautiful model and Carla also a young, beautiful smart lady. Bethany confronts Carla telling her that she had her wishes granted by a genie. Bethany tells Carla she has one wish left and she’s going to wish that she becomes as beautiful as Carla is. Both argue back and forth why it’s a bad as well as a good idea. Turns out that her wish is granted towards the end of the play, only to be a bad wish, because she didn’t explain herself well to the genie. Instead of wishing for Carla’s beauty she wished she be like her, the genie granted her that wish exactly as Bethany wished for, which made the girls switch brains and not beauty. This merely demonstrates that beauty is unique within each individual and it is something that cannot be replicated. This

Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre embraces many feminist views in opposition to the Victorian feminine ideal. Charlotte Bronte herself was among the first feminist writers of her time, and wrote this book in order to send the message of feminism to a Victorian-Age Society in which women were looked upon as inferior and repressed by the society in which they lived. This novel embodies the ideology of equality between a man and woman in marriage, as well as in society at large. As a feminist writer, Charlotte Bronte created this novel to support and spread the idea of an independent woman who works for herself, thinks for herself, and acts of her own accord.

A feminist is a person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism (belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes). Jane Eyre is clearly a critique of assumptions about both gender and social class. It contains a strong feminist stance; it speaks to deep, timeless human urges and fears, using the principles of literature to chart the mind?s recesses. Thus, Jane Eyre is an epitome of femininity - a young independent individual steadfast in her morals and has strong Christian virtues, dominant, assertive and principled. That itself is no small feat.

“Little Girls with dreams become women with vision” (unknown). This quote expresses Jane’s entire life in the novel Jane Eyre written by the author Charlotte Brontë. The main character that is discussed in this book is Jane Eyre and she is trying to find herself despite being recognized as less than everyone else solely based on her gender and her poor place in nineteenth-century’s social class. Gender inequality is world wide problem with no end, dating back to the civil rights period to the present day. Mrs. Reed, John Reed, Mr Brocklehurst and Ms. Blanche Ingram, as well as many others are a prime example for this issue. For the reason being that they allow others’ mainly her son to not only treat her with disrespect but also torment Jane as well.