Ugly Betty

research consisted of an analysis of a randomly chosen episode of the television show Ugly Betty, focusing on the nonverbal behaviour towards both thin and overweight characters, categorising it as either positive or negative reactions. Contrary to expectations, overweight characters did not elicit more negative nonverbal reactions than thin characters did, perhaps due to the nature of both the television show Ugly Betty and the individual episode. This highlights the need for subsequent research focusing

Looking towards the media with regards to the spectacle and particularly the spectacle in relation to celebrities, I find that when the spectacle focuses around celebrities, they usuaually focus on their rise and falls of being a star. Celebrities are everywhere, and the public strive on them, whether they are a good influence or bad influence. The public is attracted to anything celebrity related, they want to be consumed by the gossip. Therefore, I choose to do my media review on Amanda Bynes on

Although Betty and some other characters in the show are regarded as ugly by stereotypically beautiful women, they seldom question the beauty standards and often choose to accept the situation, which shows their internalized sexism. In the first three seasons Betty remains the same body figure and clothing style, which is considered “ugly” by her colleagues. Though being optimistic and confident about her life, she admits her ugliness. Betty’s childhood memories are mostly negative because her classmates

Everyone has their own culture, whether they realize it or not. Some people have distinct cultures, but others struggle with the idea of having a specific culture and cannot figure theirs out. In the novel Uglies, Scott Westerfeld uses cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings to demonstrate the impacts and control Special Circumstances has on society, while Tally struggles to break away and fix the operation. In society the government is in charge and controls daily lives through culture

Chelsea Dowding-Hopkins Year 9 – Mrs Graham INS essay Uglies by Scott Westerfield One of the main themes in Scott Westerfield’s text Uglies is the conflict teenagers have with where they stand in society and learning to respect and value themselves. Using examples from the text compare them with today’s world for teenagers. Word count: Date Due: Uglies illustrates many issues that young teenagers will go through in life. The reader has an insight of three main characters and their

Dynamic Character: Tally Youngblood The Uglies is a dystopian novel about a young girl living in a futuristic society with a very controlling government. Scott Westerfeld’s character, Tally Youngblood, is the protagonist of his novel. Tally changes and progresses as her story is told, making her a very dynamic character. As you read you discover that she an adolescent who is selfish and will do anything to become a “Pretty”, but as her story goes on her traits change from a selfish, immature, and

in the real world may have an easier time seeing these same effects take a different form in fictional writing. The novel titled Uglies may seem like full fantasy with its hover boards and floating buildings, but the world within its pages reveals the effects of beauty standards that can be seen in the real world. Using the power of fictional writing, the author of Uglies, Scott Westerfeld, lays out the nature of beauty standards for readers to see. These effects – creation, spread, and achievement

they said, to protect them from any danger, to make them happy. They were so... pretty.” This quote emphasizes how regardless of intelligence, appearances matter to them. There is a sense of social class, there is segregation between the lower class ‘Uglies’ and upper class ‘Pretties’. It’s peculiar how Westerfeld chooses to describe it as ‘magic’ in their eyes, it hints at a kind of superstition. This passage is important to the novel since it indicates how much power appearances hold in this society

Would you like to live in a world where you are born ugly and forced to transform pretty by age 16 and you have no say? Well the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is about a girl named Tally who meets Shay, a teenager just like her, that decides not to turn pretty and escape to a city called “The Smoke.” This gets Tally in trouble as she is threatened by a doctor in Special Circumstances, named Dr. Cable, that she will stay ugly for life if she doesn't find and return her friend, along with other people

to save not only herself, but her friends and the whole city. “Uglies,” also written by Scott Westerfeld(the first book of the series) Tally has to sacrifice her life in order to turn pretty to be with Peris, her old friend from Uglyville who turned pretty before her. Both of these stories are teaching us to sacrifice our lives for our friends, but the author teaches this in different ways. In the first book of the series, Uglies, Tally has always wanted to become pretty and be with Peris, but