Instead of being confident and happy with the way they are and what they see in the mirror, they are told to equate happiness with what is perceived as the value of a woman in society, the image of a superficial, unrealistic Barbie Doll. Even today, one must feel that society still tries to force sexual stereotypical insecurities within women to have a disease like obsession with how a woman should appear in society comparable to a doll and ignore the image in the mirror of which can eventually lead to their own self demise.
For decades society has always had a firm grip over an individual’s life, a controlling vice on the young and how they grow but especially the women. Today’s society tells women how to eat and dress through advertisement …show more content…
The very person the child could never be is the very person in the casket representing a doll in a big display box for all to see and finally smile at. Society now finally views her as beautiful. Through her nightie and make-up, the colors ‘Pink’ symbolizing femininity and ‘white’ symbolized the true purity of a woman. Societies view of Barbie with her unrealistic body, tiny waist, thin thighs, long legs, long straight hair, pretty eyes and perfect smile. She is made to appear like someone she was not in her real life. The poet’s sarcastic last lines of the poem ‘to every woman a happy ending’ shows how society has viciously poisoned a woman’s thinking that in order to have a happy ending, women have to mold themselves, adhere to being constructed and mentally and physically altered into a perfect visual shape like a Barbie …show more content…
It holds a mirror up to a young woman’s vanity and slowly reveals the destruction of self-worth that comes from comparing the normal to the unrealistic, the beautiful to the artificial. The judgment of a woman begins the moment that each young girl is introduced to a Barbie Doll, Ken Doll and all the accessories of the dollhouse fantasy life that they live in. The superficial thought that for a modern woman to have their happiness it must be based upon looking perfect in the mirror and being flawless inside and out. The unconscious behavior of women in today’s society has not changed much from that of 1973 whereas women try to conform to the many ways of behaving and trying to imitate looking like the perfect image of what society calls correct imaging. Yesterday there was the original Barbie Doll image and still today Barbie lives but now there is reality T.V., with video vixens with alterations to the exterior in hopes of having that Barbie Doll image yet with the same unfortunate interior. If you live and act naturally you are labeled as abnormal or different because of the way you look. Inside the mind of a young girl she constantly fights against the value of a woman set by society. She has been shown that her demise will be based upon her being different from the norm. A woman’s cultural look and social dynamic value in society has become a commodity for the sake of profit
For decades society has always had a firm grip over an individual’s life, a controlling vice on the young and how they grow but especially the women. Today’s society tells women how to eat and dress through advertisement …show more content…
The very person the child could never be is the very person in the casket representing a doll in a big display box for all to see and finally smile at. Society now finally views her as beautiful. Through her nightie and make-up, the colors ‘Pink’ symbolizing femininity and ‘white’ symbolized the true purity of a woman. Societies view of Barbie with her unrealistic body, tiny waist, thin thighs, long legs, long straight hair, pretty eyes and perfect smile. She is made to appear like someone she was not in her real life. The poet’s sarcastic last lines of the poem ‘to every woman a happy ending’ shows how society has viciously poisoned a woman’s thinking that in order to have a happy ending, women have to mold themselves, adhere to being constructed and mentally and physically altered into a perfect visual shape like a Barbie …show more content…
It holds a mirror up to a young woman’s vanity and slowly reveals the destruction of self-worth that comes from comparing the normal to the unrealistic, the beautiful to the artificial. The judgment of a woman begins the moment that each young girl is introduced to a Barbie Doll, Ken Doll and all the accessories of the dollhouse fantasy life that they live in. The superficial thought that for a modern woman to have their happiness it must be based upon looking perfect in the mirror and being flawless inside and out. The unconscious behavior of women in today’s society has not changed much from that of 1973 whereas women try to conform to the many ways of behaving and trying to imitate looking like the perfect image of what society calls correct imaging. Yesterday there was the original Barbie Doll image and still today Barbie lives but now there is reality T.V., with video vixens with alterations to the exterior in hopes of having that Barbie Doll image yet with the same unfortunate interior. If you live and act naturally you are labeled as abnormal or different because of the way you look. Inside the mind of a young girl she constantly fights against the value of a woman set by society. She has been shown that her demise will be based upon her being different from the norm. A woman’s cultural look and social dynamic value in society has become a commodity for the sake of profit