Summary Of The Beauty Myth By Naomi Wolf

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According to Greek philosopher Plato, “...justice is a human 'human virtue' that makes a person self consistent and good; socially, justice is a social consciousness that makes a society internally harmonious and good.” (Bhandari 19). Which means that justice, for Plato, is a part of human virtue and the bond that joins man together in society. It is the identical quality that makes us all good, social, harmonious, equal, honest, and just. Which can also be pertained to types of social control, or the different way society tries to control people in an attempt to maintain some kind of order; particularly social control of the female gender. Like the essay, “The Beauty Myth”, by Naomi Wolf, where she argues about the Beauty Myth, a social standard that controls women by imprisoning them within their body. She also discusses topics such as how the fashion …show more content…

Wolf writes, “Women must want to embody it and men must want to possess women who embody it. This embodiment is an imperative for women and not for men... Strong men battle for beautiful women, and beautiful women are more reproductively successful.” (Wolf 38). By acknowledging the ethics of how, not only women, but also men seem to endlessly compete against each other for seeing who can get the most beautiful mate possible. The author shows that with all of this competition, chaos, and discrimination of appearance because both mean and women only want the most attractive of spouses, that there can be no harmony or happiness within a society that is constantly envious of someone because they obtained the prettier mate. Which goes against what Plato sees as just, since people in his view are happy and

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