With this coming draft I have been brainstorming many different forms of media to use for evidence for my draft. I plan to use a magazine cover and possibly a painting or photograph so I can use two pieces of art to compare societies perception of beauty along side the individual’s perception of beauty. I am going to research the MLA formatting for citing a magazine cover and the other forms of evidence that I plan to use. I hope my choice of evidence of beauty will be useful to juxtapose within my essay in order to create a contrast between societal and individual views on beauty.
For my outline I plan to center my thesis around the idea of beauty being within the eye of the beholder and I plan to use many different forms of evidence in order to give as many examples of uncommon forms of beauty as I can in order to shine light upon the aspects of beauty that are often overlooked. Often we experience beauty in our daily lives but don’t make a conscious connection between the two so naturally when asked about the definition of beauty we resort to the societal expectations of beauty that have been engraved In our human nature.
I like the thought of using a magazine cover or other image in your essay. It should help the reader towards a deeper understanding of your main points. I like where you said “Often we experience beauty in our daily lives but don’t make a conscious connection between the two so naturally when asked about the definition of beauty we resort to the societal expectations of beauty that have been engraved In our human nature.” I feel like that would make an excellent main point in a paragraph.
Comparing works of art created by society and how society views those pieces of are will provide plenty to write about. I also think talking about how members of society don’t have their own personal definition of beauty and resort to society’s form of beauty is also a great topic. Try to relate both of these ideas together and the argument from it would be strong.
The idea of using a magazine picture is cool because you’ll be involving another person’s opinion on what you are talking about in your essay. If its a common one then a lot of people will connect to the picture and become more interested in what you have to say also.
Jacob,
Although there is not too much to go on here, I like the idea of focusing on more marginal definitions of beauty. You could focus your entire paper on the role that you believe marginalized definitions of beauty play in our contemporary American society.
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