You Painted A Naked Woman

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In this short essay the author express that the woman’s will and feelings was defined by the men. He express that since women are little kids till they die, they should look and act good in front of the men. Although the presence of men is defined by itself, women presence is defined by the men. He also criticizes the judgment of women’s beauty. She had to be beautiful in the men expectations but not in her perspective of beauty. Historically women had to pass through painful methods to meet men expectations of beauty. In the short essay he says, “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for

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