Susan Sontag

new one, but rather one that seems to transform (throughout the period it is being discussed in.) (In the four cases that are to be presented, they each, for the most part, only argue for their own gender, and not the other.) Deborah Tannen and Susan Sontag tackle issues of (women’s beauty expectations) in their respective articles “Marked Women” and “A Woman’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?” Scott Sanders and Warren Farrell, on the other hand, discuss the issues that men face in society. While

In the excerpt made by Susan Sontag on the limitations of our understanding of the world through photography is true. Through propaganda, prior knowledge and unrealistic expectations skew the meaning of photographs. The most profound usage of propaganda is to make you believe one side is better than another. Either a recruitment message for a political group or flat out buttering up of an image or subject, propaganda simply blurs the lines of our understanding of the world. A good example of this

defined solely by desirability this desirability is crucial to identity. Even if that identity is of suffrage and victimhood, it allowed for mastery of self, during a time when women were not often afforded the ability to master much of anything. “Susan Sontag has described the heyday of a “nihilistic and sentimental” nineteenth-​century logic that found appeal in female suffering: “Sadness made one ‘interesting.’ It was a mark of refinement, of sensibility, to be sad. That is, to be powerless.” This

Sontag mentions when Arbus committed suicide in 1971 her work became more popular and that seemed to secure the feeling of sincerity in her work and that it is “not voyeuristic, that it is compassionate, not cold” (1997, 31). This contradicts the previous statement that Sontag made about how her photographs of “pathetic” and “pitable” subjects do not arouse any compassion. The critique also highlights how Arbus chose subjects that were “lying about, without any values attached to them” taking pictures

What does it mean for a work of art to have value, and how is its value determined in the first place? Susan Sontag addresses this in her essay Against Interpretation, which was published in 1966 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. As the name suggests, the essay is all about Susan’s idea of what interpretation is, and why she’s against it. She writes her views on how she feels the overuse of interpretation diminishes the value of any given art piece by redundantly searching for meaning that might

lapses within society. Susan Sontag’s essay A Woman’s Beauty: Put-down or Power Source? presents the arguments of whether or not the beauty of a woman is adverse to the woman as a whole. Referring to her essay, one can imply that she sees a woman’s beauty being a put-down. I affirm this positionality because the woman being beautiful portrays vanity, self-oppression, and a burden. Firstly, a woman being concerned about her beauty is often interpreted as vanity. When Susan Sontag talks about the perception

Makeup and Susan Sontag’s Analysis of Women’s Beauty Makeup is a popular trend that has gained recognition from film and television industries and everyday use over the years. Although it may seem like a harmless trend, many people feel that makeup has affected our society in a negative way. It makes some women feel like it is a necessity that they cannot live without. This is where Susan Sontag comes in. Sontag was a human rights activist and one of America’s most extrusive scholars.

each individual’s mind runs on a different perspective and often battles between optimistic thinking and depression. Susan Sontag draws an inspiring argument that the state of illness is not directly physical, but rather mental by applying the use of metaphors, elaborative explanations, and applying own references and experiences to create an illusion on mental illness. Sontag uses a great deal of metaphors throughout the passage. Regarding that illness is a part of life, she makes a wonderful

A Women’s Power Source: Her Brain Susan Sontag worked very hard throughout her life to get her voice out there. She also made it very clear that an education was important to her and unless she obtained that high level of education, her voice may not have been heard by as many people, and this essay may not have been written. Sontag’s time spent in school for years as well as a human rights activist has a strong role in her essay A Women’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source. The fact that she was so

viewing. Because we are so focused on the actual action of taking a photograph, we are stripped of the experience. In Susan Sontag’s “In Plato’s Cave,” she says that “It seems positively unnatural to travel for pleasure without taking a camera along. Photographs will offer indisputable evidence that the trip was made, that the program was carried out, that fun was had” (9). Here Sontag is saying that photographs provide evidence, that the trip was taken and that is it almost like the trip didn’t happen