“Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder”
“Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder” is a well-known statement that holds true. Everyone has a different opinion about what is beautiful. What one person finds attractive and beautiful may not appeal to another person. Beauty cannot be judged. In everyday life, we meet and see different people and pass by numerous things. Twilight Zone - The Eye of the Beholder by Rod Sterling is a short movie that inspires a person to look closer at what people think is beautiful. By watching “The Eye of the Beholder,” people can see the influence of the government on society and can compare and contrast what beauty is today with what it was in the 1960s.
“The Eye of the Beholder” is one of the “Twilight Zone” series.
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This short movie appeared on the television in 1960. Janet Tyler is a main character in the “Eye of the Beholder” movie. Janet Tyler is lying in the dark room and her entire face is covered with bandages. She looks very lonely and isolated in the room. While the nurse prepares her medication, Janet talks about how much she has missed being outside, seeing the sun and watching the sky. Janet Tyler, Patient 307, was born with a disfigured face. Because her face did not have a normal shape, the government placed her in the hospital in the hope her ugly face could be fixed. As people can see in the movie, the hospital was not for normal people. It was created by the totalitarian government to lock away people who do not look normal. All the nurse’s and doctors’ faces are hidden from the camera or by different items. Their faces are revealed at the end of the movie with Jane Tyler’s face. Miss Tyler is looking for a solution to enjoy life and live like everyone else. Janet Tyler already tried ten treatments and this is her eleventh, and last, treatment. The last ten treatments have not made any differences to her face. Eleven is the maximum number of treatments she is allowed to have. In her case, the treatments include only injections because of the shape of her face and her flesh type, the doctor cannot do plastic surgery. Therefore, if the last treatment does not work, she has to go to a place where people of her kind live. The doctor cares about Patient 307; he wants to do everything what is in his power to make her look normal. At the same time, he does not understand why a person who looks different should have to live separate from others, in an isolated world. Miss Tyler convinced the doctor to remove the bandages from her head. It is an important decision the doctor has to make. Finally, Miss Tyler convinced him to remove them. The doctor gave her a short instruction as to what she needs to do while removing the bandages. When the doctor removed the last bandage, her face had not changed. Instead of seeing an ugly face, people see an attractive woman surrounded by pig-faced people. At this moment, viewers realize that all the nurses and doctors in the hospital have ugly faces and that Janet has always had a normal face. Janet Tyler is a beautiful woman who is trying to get a pig shaped face to fit in with society. At the end, an attractive man who has similar face condition like Janet Tyler is going to take her to the place where all people like them live. Before they leave the hospital, the man tells to Tyler, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Everyone has their one definition of beauty. What is beautiful for one person can look horrible to another person. In this movie, people can the huge influence of the government on the society. When Janet says, “Who are you people? What is this State? The State is not God! It does not have the right to make ugliness a crime!” The word “State” sounds like they live in the totalitarian regime where the state controls society. Also, when Janet Tyler was trying to open the window to get fresh air, viewers saw that all houses were the same. It was the idea of the totalitarian government to build the same buildings and to take control over the people. When Janet Tyler’s face was revealed, she runs down the hall. “The Leader” speaks on large television monitors through the hospital. “The Leader” is saying that everyone should be made to look the same without exclusion. This episode shows racism in that period of time and how the government treats people who look different. The totalitarian government was in charge of making people’s personal decisions. If a person does not fit their definition of normal, like Janet Tyler, the government does not want them to be on the street. Rob Sterling’s intention was to show the world how the government controls society in the 1960s. These controls on society led to the upheaval of the 1960s, including the Civil Rights Movement, the Feminist Movement, the Hippie Movement and the protests against the war in Vietnam. The perception of beauty has changed dramatically throughout time.
There is a significance difference between beauty in the 1960s and beauty today. Social media, fashion styles, television shows and magazines that can help to identify what is the image of beauty. Each decade has its own style, fashion and beauty icons. To identify what was the image of beauty in the 1960s and what was going in that decade, people can look to icons of the time. Jacqueline Kennedy, with no doubt, was the fashion and style icon of the 1960s. Jacqueline Kennedy always looked elegant, sophisticated, and fashionable. She became the image of beauty for many girls and woman. The way she styled her hair and put together clothes had a significant effect on society. Jacqueline Kennedy brought a new look on fashion women today continue to emulate. Today, the definition of beauty has dramatically changed. Kate Middleton is one of the fashion and style icons of today. Her style is very classy, elegant and simple beautiful. However, she has a very different figure than Jacqueline Kennedy. Whereas Jacqueline’s full figure was considered the ideal in the 1960’s, Kate’s slender built is considered the ideal today. Many people have argued that Kate Middleton is unhealthily skinny for her height. People believe that the current ideal of beauty can have a significant negative impact on girls and woman throughout the world. Female are going through extreme diets, exercise and surgery to be like their favorite icon. Also, it is common today to have extremely thin people on television and in magazines. This is the huge influence on society and it causes big problems. Anorexia is a one of those problems. People should have their own perception on what is
beautiful. “Eye of the Beholder” shows a social and political issue of the 1960s. People can see a strong government regime that has a big influence on society. People could not make any personal decisions because of the totalitarian government. Also, this movie encourages people to look differently at beauty. Everyone has their own perception about beauty. By comparing and contrasting beauty today and in the 1960s, people see dramatic changes through time. What was beautiful in the 1960s, it is not what beauty is today. Because of movies such as “Eye of the Beholder” showing the totalitarian nature of the government in the 1960s and other societal forces, government has less influence on the personal choices of the people and the population is freer to make their own choices about beauty.
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