1. Woman's Image
They thought of objects or nature as being inherently beautiful: beauty is inside the object, "The beauty within an object is it's pure and ideal beauty" (Plato 48). ... Fuller figured women were the ideal pictures of gorgeous. ... Jean Kilbourne describes how the iron maiden portrays and reinforces an "ideal [that] cannot be changed; it is inhuman in it's flawlessness. ... By giving an average woman the chance to compare herself to the unnatural air brushed idea of perfection, advertising erodes self esteem and then offers the woman a chance to gain it back for a price. ...
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- Grade Level: High School