As Sigmund Freud said, “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” Self expression has always been an important part of one's identity and personality. This is a recurring theme in The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Secret Life of Bees in their actions and mental state. When one is unable to express oneself, it heavily affects their mental health and generally causes stress for the person. A well known and relatively simple way to express oneself is to make art. Whether it be through painting, writing, music, singing and really anything one could imagine. Art therapy is also a common type of therapy. Expressive art therapy is the use of creative arts as a form of therapy and is a
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In The Secret life of Bees, clothing and fashion is very important to Lily.She thinks too only thing in store for her is beauty school, but again people tell her that a decision like that is an insult to her intelligence. “...I’d believed beauty college would be the upper limit of my career…”Please Lily, you are insulting your fine intelligence. Do you have any idea how smart you are? You could be a professor or a writer with actual books to your credit? Beauty school. Please.' (Kidd 15) Everyone in her life dismisses her interests and pressures her to do things that she does not want to. Anyone should be allowed to dress how they want and express themselves.“There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right. I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one” (Kidd 9) Her father and her caretaker Rosaleen both refuse to let her dress and express herself how she wants which is extremely detrimental to her health. Everyone can relate to being denied the right to express themselves through clothing whether is be a school or work dress code, parents, or societal norms that hold them back. Fashion is an art and a form of self …show more content…
“The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.” (Constitution 1) Since the founding of America, we’ve had the freedom of expression, but when has it become socially acceptable? Just because you are legally allowed to do something, does not mean you will not face social backlash for it Even today, there is still people who do not support the movement towards self-expression. “ Psychologist and writer, Peggy Drexler Ph.D, says the selfie obsession is like "looking in the mirror all day long and letting others see you do it." And similarly, like directing and starring in your own reality show and deluding yourself into believing that your so-called followers find your varied selfie poses remarkable and your mundane activities of life somehow stimulating.” (Tsilimparis
In The Secret life of Bees, clothing and fashion is very important to Lily.She thinks too only thing in store for her is beauty school, but again people tell her that a decision like that is an insult to her intelligence. “...I’d believed beauty college would be the upper limit of my career…”Please Lily, you are insulting your fine intelligence. Do you have any idea how smart you are? You could be a professor or a writer with actual books to your credit? Beauty school. Please.' (Kidd 15) Everyone in her life dismisses her interests and pressures her to do things that she does not want to. Anyone should be allowed to dress how they want and express themselves.“There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails till I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right. I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one” (Kidd 9) Her father and her caretaker Rosaleen both refuse to let her dress and express herself how she wants which is extremely detrimental to her health. Everyone can relate to being denied the right to express themselves through clothing whether is be a school or work dress code, parents, or societal norms that hold them back. Fashion is an art and a form of self …show more content…
“The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.” (Constitution 1) Since the founding of America, we’ve had the freedom of expression, but when has it become socially acceptable? Just because you are legally allowed to do something, does not mean you will not face social backlash for it Even today, there is still people who do not support the movement towards self-expression. “ Psychologist and writer, Peggy Drexler Ph.D, says the selfie obsession is like "looking in the mirror all day long and letting others see you do it." And similarly, like directing and starring in your own reality show and deluding yourself into believing that your so-called followers find your varied selfie poses remarkable and your mundane activities of life somehow stimulating.” (Tsilimparis