Text 1 is a blog written by a blogger who is against the no makeup movement. She is writing in response to the movement. Being a public blog, the audience is the public who are interested to find out more opinions regarding the movement. The purpose is to oppose to the manifesto of the no makeup movement. Being someone without the “perfect skin”, she …show more content…
In contrast to the previous text, the author supports the no makeup movement. The audience is the visitors to the website. She opposed the idea of expectation of makeup on women, and encouraged the personal happiness of women. Her message is that instead of “unhappily struggling to reach some benchmark set by others and the society”, women should do what they want, with makeup or not, for personal happiness. This promotes the idea of self-love, which is aligned with the manifesto of the no makeup movement.
Text 3 is the manifesto of the movement written by Alicia Keys. The intended audience is the public, from whom she wishes to gain support for the movement. Being the starter of the movement, the purpose of the author is to explain her rationale for doing so. The context is that she was doing a photo-shoot, and realised how empowered and real she felt without makeup, thus she wanted to promote this idea of being free and real. Her message is that people should embrace who they really are, without covering