What makes someone beautiful? How is beauty measured? Magazines, celebrities, and businesses create an image of beauty for society. Perfection is believed to be beautiful. Youthful is seen as valuable. There is make up to help erase age, and to be forever young. Dying hair is often use to hid the gray, a sign of aging. Magazines use celebrities for the front covers. Why? Because they are perfect, in other words, have so much money where they can erase the aging and forever be young and beautiful. If they have any flaws, they simply edit the picture so that the cover is flawless. People strive to be the impossible.
Dorian Gray strives for the impossible dream of being forever young and beautiful. He is pressured by his friends who praise him for being beautiful. Basil is practically in love with him and paints a portrait of him that exposes too much of his own soul. Lord Henry tell him of the power he could have with his beauty. Even after is personality changed for the worse he still was loved by society. Why? Because he was beautiful. He had been nurtured in a way that he believes that beauty is everything. He curses his painting to show his true, wicked soul, which in-evidently caused him to murder his ugly self.
Beauty will bring people to great depths. People will do anything to maintain their image, and would die to go back to when they were young and weren't aging. Anti-aging (insert noun here) says it all.
I think that beauty is within. When you are appealing to someone by your personality, you are automatically more beautiful then you every could be from the outside. Society expects so much. They do believe you need to be beautiful on the inside, as well as outside. However the outside is so much of a business now that the personality is lost. I feel that when I'm older, I will be self conscious of my again body. I won't try to reverse it though, because those people are seen as fake. Society itself is a double standard which like Dorian, will cause people to want to leave a double life and hide the outside. Only problem is Dorian portrait's curse is impossible. Impossible things are out of reach, and will cause someone to go mad trying to search for the answer of beauty.
Good work!
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