Perception+of+Beauty



"The eyes are petulant, mischievous. To Pecola they are simply pretty. She eats the candy, and its sweetness is good. To eat the Candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat mary jane. Love Mary Jane. Be Mary Jane."-The Bluest Eye (50)

"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another-physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." The Bluest Eye (122)

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"I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody" The Great Gatsby (67)-

We want to be somebody, we don’t want to appear to someone as a nobody. We want our lives to have purpose. media type="youtube" key="v69i99BzgtY" height="385" width="480" Courtesy of Youtube Beauty is "vast, vulgar, meretricious" The Great Gatsby (98). I think that is the quote to basically describe the picture on the right. The girl's beauty is basically fake, and it this type of beauty has been spreading from American to American. Now girls, and guys, have been artificially enhancing their looks, to be perceived better by the general public. This vast beauty epidemic, has caused people to actually harm, and distort themselves for the hopes that others will view them as more attractive, and therefore making their lives better.

"If those eyes of hers were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different" The Bluest Eye (46) [|Dove Beauty Campaign-Maybe They Can Help Some Americans Escape the Horror of Fake Beauty]

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