Barbie Doll Essay

Marge Piercy’s, “Barbie Doll,” uses a variety of literary elements including language, tone, and irony, to discuss the treatment, or rather mistreatment of women in our world. The girl in the poem ends up killing herself after being harassed for her lack of feminine charm, the poem written in 1973 makes the reader question the way women are viewed and the heavy repercussions these expectations may carry. Piercy’s view of the way the world treats young girls is illustrated through the language…

when they don’t look like how society tells them to and this can cause a number of things to go wrong in their self image and life. Unfortunately these high expectations have had an extremely negative impact on females. In Margie Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” she discusses the impractical stereotype and pressure that society puts on women. The standards for a woman’s body have a negative effect on females. In the poem Piercy wrote, “She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose…

communication. We see these stereotypes in “Day Star” by Rita Dove, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy. Day Star by Rita Dove is about a mother who felt trapped in her life as a stay at home mother, who just wants to daydream in the sun. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is about a mother trying to give her young daughter advise on how not to be a “slut” and how to keep a man. “Barbie Girl” by Marge Peircy was about a smart young lady who did not look how society wanted her to…

happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life” (The Stranger). How one decides to live their life is solely each for their own. “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Resumé” by Dorothy Parker, and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy all focus on what life means to different individuals. Robinson expresses that looks can be illusory. The speaker of “Resumé” tells how painful death can be; and Piercy gives the idea that it is almost impossible for most…

While boys have toys such as superman and trucks that portray masculinity, and electronic advancement, girls have Barbie dolls that shape their personalities, deteriorate their self-esteem, and defined their intelligence. Margie Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” provides insight on the script that woman are expected to play. The third stanza of the poem states, “She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise diet, smile…

1. Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll” 2. Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” 3. Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” The three poems show the dissatisfaction the women get form their lives based on views of men in their lives. Their actions and feelings are based on how the masculine characters in their lives have impacted them. The poems project various feelings of depression, fear, anger and sadness as the different women reflect on their lives. The poem ‘daddy’ shows the narrator’s…

behavior is a large benefactor in intercommunication of humans. This can most crucial in how we judge others and how they judge ourselves. Poems such as “Barbie Doll,” “Jabberwocky,” and “Against Love” show how emotions and perspective impact human behavior. How our society behaves can be directly proportional to how people see individuals as in “Barbie Doll”, or how “Jabberwocky” shows how the individual see others, and “Against Love” shows how individuals feel about others. Other peoples’…

idea of beauty: tall, blue eyes, blonde hair, thin, long legs. This woman is more commonly known as Barbie. She was created by Ruth Handler during the 1960’s: a time when women were meant to be just housewives, staying at home and taking care of children, unable to achieve or attain anything. Barbie’s unrealistic proportions, in addition to her being considered a mascot for beauty,…

Barbie, a name that people all around the world know, is just a doll, but throughout the past 50 years she has become the icon of physical appearance and a luxurious lifestyle for young girls and women. In the 1950’s, Mattel, the company that worked with Ruth Handler to produce the doll, soon became the first to sell a doll with a woman’s body as a children’s toy. Beginning with Malibu Barbie, also known as the “dumb blond” stereotypical Barbie, and progressing to multicultural versions of…

The History of Barbie Barbie is the most popular doll in the world. She is a worldwide fashion muse and pop culture icon for girls of all ages. Barbie has worked with many designers over the years being created and improved. She creates an unrealistic body-image causing some women to go to extremes to look like her. Barbie is so popular she is collected and has had lawsuits over her. The world’s famous Barbie dolls were created by Ruth Handler. She got the idea of Barbie from her two children…