Traditionally beauty is coveted throughout the world and ugliness is despised. It is sought after everyday, by most people around the world. Beauty is symbolic of positive, pure traits whereas ugliness coincides with the negative and evil. Humans view people, art, architecture, and design in the context of beauty versus ugliness. The opposition of beauty and ugliness is prevalent in life daily. The binary of beauty versus ugliness changes the way that people view the world around them and causes pre existing notions of people and things.
The binary of beauty versus ugliness is ingrained in us from childhood. Children’s stories and films portrays ‘good’ characters as being young and beautiful and ‘evil’ characters as old and ugly. Disney movies such as Snow White center around the beauty of the princess being so coveted that other characters are willing to do ill upon them to suppress or eliminate their beauty and to make themselves the most beautiful. This narrative is echoed in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Rapunzel among others. The binary of beauty versus ugliness in people is ingrained from such a young age that children grow up looking at people in the terms of beautiful or not based solely on their physical appearance. …show more content…
For example in China foot binding was a common practice, because large feet were considered ugly. However, what was truly ugly was the idea that people had to cripple themselves for the sake of beauty. Clear, youthful looking skin and light natural looking makeup is the craze in Korea, along with popula double eyelid surgery to get rid of monolids. Even though the beauty standard is different, western influence is still shown in the eastern world. This is also shown by the heavy usage of skin lightening products in India. The anti-aging craze in the western world shows how youth is valued and considered
The binary of beauty versus ugliness is ingrained in us from childhood. Children’s stories and films portrays ‘good’ characters as being young and beautiful and ‘evil’ characters as old and ugly. Disney movies such as Snow White center around the beauty of the princess being so coveted that other characters are willing to do ill upon them to suppress or eliminate their beauty and to make themselves the most beautiful. This narrative is echoed in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Rapunzel among others. The binary of beauty versus ugliness in people is ingrained from such a young age that children grow up looking at people in the terms of beautiful or not based solely on their physical appearance. …show more content…
For example in China foot binding was a common practice, because large feet were considered ugly. However, what was truly ugly was the idea that people had to cripple themselves for the sake of beauty. Clear, youthful looking skin and light natural looking makeup is the craze in Korea, along with popula double eyelid surgery to get rid of monolids. Even though the beauty standard is different, western influence is still shown in the eastern world. This is also shown by the heavy usage of skin lightening products in India. The anti-aging craze in the western world shows how youth is valued and considered