Beauty

As said in Beauty and The Beast, “Beauty’s sisters sickened with envy… could all her(Beauty) obliging affectionate behavior stifle their jealousy.”(Beaumont). In addition to, it is a type of motif portrayed in stories such as Beauty and The Beast, Rumpelstiltskin and many others. The different types of themes portrayed in these stories are what make them popular. Greed can make you a selfish human being is a theme shown in the real world. In Beauty and the Beast, it says, “... when they(the…

“She is beauty and she is grace, she is the queen of 50 states, she is elegance and taste, she is Miss United States (Lawrence).” This song, from the soundtrack of the movie Miss Congeniality, describes amazing women who have been crowned Miss United States. While outside of this movie, in the real world, we do not have Miss United States; we do have other titles similar. Beauty pageants encourage their participants to be the best versions of themselves they can be through building the…

In this new version of the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, the focus is placed all on the three fairies that are supposed to be good and wholesome, and give Sleeping Beauty the typical gifts. However, in this tale, there is a fairy that goes awry, which changes the theme and basis of the story quite radically, but some of the conventions stay the same. In this tale, there is not necessarily a hard line between the good and the bad characters, the level of importance for each character changes, the…

as the Golden Age of television in the United States. During this time beauty pageants, Barbie, and Marilyn Monroe were all popular in society. Beauty pageants gave families something to watch together. Barbie’s gave young girls something to imagine and play with. Marilyn Monroe became a famous icon in Hollywood as well as movies. Beauty pageants, Barbie, and Marilyn Monroe all exhibited characteristics which consisted of beauty and sexuality. Miss America pageants have been popular since they…

Beauty and the Beast is an American animated romantic film produced and released by Walt Disney in 1991. It is rearranged based on a namesake French fairy tale, created by the author Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, about a love story happens between an ordinary girl Belle and a dreadful Beast. The beast was originally a prince fallen under a spell, transformed into a hideous monster as punishment; and Belle, a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle. In order to turn back to a prince…

In a tale of love and despair, the use of archetypes in “Beauty and the Beast”, written in 1756, helps to portray the theme and enables it to be applicable to real life. The tale is about a beautiful woman named Beauty who is forced to live with a Beast and eventually learns to see past his appearance and learn to love him. Thus, in the story, the theme portrays that there is more to a person than their outward appearance. This is exemplified with the Beast, who is included in multiple…

“Lets Call Her ‘Miss America’!”(Nussbaum). Beginning as early as the 1920s, beauty pageants presented girls and young women wearing various attires and showcasing their talent (Nussbaum). Judges, then and now, are looking for the “complete package”: the young lady that exudes the most confidence, beauty, and knowledge (Nussbaum). Since then, the child beauty pageant business is one of the most popular in pageantry and has evolved into a “multi-billion dollar industry” that has led to numerous…

Police & the Fear of Thin,” reveals the perspective of the child beauty pageant craze as she was once a “Little Miss Pageant” Princess. Kataline explains how detrimental the pageant world was on herself and her relation to the world as many…

of the representation of children in beauty pageants; they are all, for the most part, of Anglo-Saxon or European descent: “light skin, straight long hair, thin lips and a narrow nose” (Price 7). Child beauty pageantry is an essentially all-white, multi-billion-dollar industry. Pageant careers come with a hefty cost, with one mother spending $70,000 a year on weekly spray tanning sessions, catwalk coaching, and gaudy dresses. Hence, participation in child beauty pageants are racialized to white,…

What happened to innocent, playful young women? There is a real issue here because young girls/women should not portray themselves as so, there is more to girls than just flaunting around in two-piece garments barely covering them. (Cartwright “Child Beauty”). Because of society today young girls are being forced to…