Literary Criticism : ' Not Just A Pretty Face '

Moving back in with her parents was just a minor setback for her. It actually help her make a business plan, that she was able to talk over with her parents. They even agreed to front her some money to get started, but she wanted to earn her own portion first.

There is a cliché quote that people say, “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders, but more specifically teenage to middle age men and women, but he writes about it in a humorous and light-hearted manner.

The goal of this is to show how the work is controlled by the values of the time period it was written

Few people have the ability to look at someone and tell exactly what they are thinking, and whether or not they are lying. Author Malcolm Gladwell, uses the stories of famous psychologist Paul Ekman and others gifted with the ability to "read people well" to argue that people can be naturally born with this ability, gradually develop it, or learn it purposefully later on. In his essay, "The Naked Face", Gladwell suggests that there could be more to this skill than what meets the eye through complex appeals to logos, pathos, ethos.

In the novel, Beauty by Robin Mc Kinley, the family of a wealthy merchant looses their wealth when the shipment boats get lost at sea. There are three daughters named Hope, Grace, and Honour, whom is nicknamed Beauty, and a father. The family is forced to move to the country and start a life more modest than accustomed. After the family adapts to country life, one of the older sisters gets married to an iron worker who used to work at the shipyard owned by the father. They have babies. Life goes on in the country.

The subjective element of beauty involves judgment, not opinion. Many people feel beauty is only something seen by the eyes. St. Thomas Aquinas views beauty in both the supernatural and natural orders. Aquinas lists the attributes of beauty to be found in nature. These are; unity, proportion, and clarity. We will see how these attributes of beauty are seen through the eye and felt by the heart.

Ann Cahill describes in her book, Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics, that women are merely playing roles projected by men. Implying that a woman is not a separate entity. That she is bereft of her own intelligence and rites to passage. That she is not truly other but a man 's inverse. Here Cahill moves past the term objectification and introduces a concept called derivatization.

All humans have an imagination. Frye speaks upon how those who read literature and analyze it has a well-educated imagination. However, those who are left, do not have an imagination or it is easily influenced. In Chapter 6, Frye says “ Advertising is one example, though an obvious one, of the deliberate creation of an illusion in the middle of real life.” (85) Frye interprets advertising as an illusion in life that a purpose. This connects to the beauty industry, specifically cosmetics displays the perfect image that the public must embody. However, it is known there is the chance of becoming the perfect face of beauty is impossible. The illusion made by the beauty industry is made for the purpose of showing what all society believes is

The play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ by Oscar Wilde is set in England during the late 19th century during the rule of Queen Victoria and features two bachelors, Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthing, and their struggle to impress the women they want to marry while remaining their true selves. Wilde presents the theme of superficiality through the approach to names in the play and the importance of appearances. (or looks? Gwen and Cecily fight plus dandy).

Steven Lynn’s essay “The Paradoxical Unity of Writing a Wrong” carries the many traits of a New Critical Essay; based on the language and choices of examples within his text. The New Critic Theory believes that the key to understanding a text “exists within the text itself”, otherwise known as “Formalism” which is very evident in Lynn’s opinion on Brendan Gill’s article. Lynn covers majority of the New Criticism concepts in his essay including; Paradox, Irony, Tensions and concludes his text with evidence behind a unifying idea. A paradox is when the outcome is opposite of the reasonable expectation. Lynn states that this is evident in Gill’s reading by using quotes to prove the point such as; “dolphin diving skyward” and “progress downward.”

Deconstruction or poststructuralist is a type of literary criticism that took its roots in the 1960’s. Jacques Derrida gave birth to the theory when he set out to demonstrate that all language is associated with mental images that we produce due to previous experiences. This system of literary scrutiny interprets meaning as effects from variances between words rather than their indication to the things they represent. This philosophical theory strives to reveal subconscious inconsistencies in a composition by examining deeply beneath its apparent meaning. Derrida’s theory teaches that texts are unstable and queries about the beliefs of words to embody reality.

Perhaps the greatest feature of this work is not content, or style, however, but instead the overarching motif of dichotomy. Throughout the

The multiplicity of meanings and (re)interpretations informing critical studies of The Awakening reveal a novel ripe for deconstructionist critique. Just as Chopin evokes an image of the sea as symbolic of Edna’s shifting consciousness (“never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude,”138), likewise the deconstructionist reading of a text emphasizes fluidity over structure: “A text consists of words inscribed in and inextricable from the myriad discourses that inform it; from the point of view of deconstruction, the boundaries between any given text and that larger text we call language are always shifting,” (297). From this

Therefore, when someone engaged in narrative criticism approach, he needs to pay attention the text only. Text is mirror here, not window as historical criticism usually does. Again, it opens the readers up to new insights in the text that we may not have seen before, or that we may have unnoticed.

The definition of beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty has negative and positive influences on mostly people. Beauty is described by the inside and outside of us. Due to beauty, our self-esteem has been hurt dramatically, especially towards girls. Beauty is not always about our outside looks but it’s about our inside personality also.