Besides entertaining and fulfilling people’s natural need of perceiving beautiful things, beauty can also trigger deep sorrow and other complicated emotions. Since people cannot live without memories and they relate things while getting new experiences, a characteristic, such as beauty, can mean different things for different individuals, and cannot only mean being beautiful. For instance, people always adore the architecturally aesthetic value of Great Pyramid of Giza neglecting the sorrow which mausoleums have in nature, and sometimes people do not want to admit that negative feelings do exist under the pleasing sensations. Noticing presenting beautiful images can arouse more complicated emotions, I examine a play, Women Laughing Alone with
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In the play, the male protagonist yelled at his gentle girlfriend who loves yoga and salad: “Why can’t you be more powerful”. He hated his girlfriend’s obedience of social aesthetic norm of being a skinny woman and wanted her to have her own character. The girlfriend became upset; since women entertain men in society, and once a girl fails pleasing her significant other, she becomes disappointed even though she has right to stand up for herself. Surprisingly, the director uses lighting to emphasize how slim, pretty, and fit-the-notion-of-feminine-beauty the girl is to show her deeper sadness, which is the repression of women’s rights nowadays. Showing the fact that even though a woman has been a role model for those who are eager to fit the perfect image of women in society, the producers demonstrate the pity that the girl should follow her own demands and the deeper grievance that the patriarchal society constructs an ideal image of women but can also judge or abandon it easily without considering females’ feelings and even condemning females’ gentleness that the patriarchal social structure greatly contributes
In the play, the male protagonist yelled at his gentle girlfriend who loves yoga and salad: “Why can’t you be more powerful”. He hated his girlfriend’s obedience of social aesthetic norm of being a skinny woman and wanted her to have her own character. The girlfriend became upset; since women entertain men in society, and once a girl fails pleasing her significant other, she becomes disappointed even though she has right to stand up for herself. Surprisingly, the director uses lighting to emphasize how slim, pretty, and fit-the-notion-of-feminine-beauty the girl is to show her deeper sadness, which is the repression of women’s rights nowadays. Showing the fact that even though a woman has been a role model for those who are eager to fit the perfect image of women in society, the producers demonstrate the pity that the girl should follow her own demands and the deeper grievance that the patriarchal society constructs an ideal image of women but can also judge or abandon it easily without considering females’ feelings and even condemning females’ gentleness that the patriarchal social structure greatly contributes