ENG130 Group 2: Standards of Beauty: The standards of beauty that we know today are at the extremes. You’re either a size 2 and perfect or anything else and flawed. Girls start...
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I like that you start out with how the media portrays beauty today in your discussion of "The Birthmark." Although one thing that comes to mind, if Georgiana, in the eyes of everyone except Aylmer, is truly the perfect woman and the birthmark enhances her beauty, what does that say about Aylmer? Does it mean that he is maybe that force behind the media that constantly drives the beauty standards higher and higher? Or maybe even the idea that these models who are so beautiful are also photoshopped and can't even live up to the standards that exist. I also wonder if it could even represent the push for stars and models to get plastic surgery and become ever more "perfect." I think that could also tie into an argument for the nature versus science aspects of the story and how in our natural state, we can never truly be "perfect" and that perfection is not real and what is real is imperfect.
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