Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Barbie Doll
The poem Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy shows how society sees beauty. The poem personally told the story of how society sees beauty and a woman. The story shows how women go to the extremes to be seen as beautiful in the eyes of society. "She cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up" (Piercy, 17). The poem expresses how people change to get the pleasure from society. The poem can be related to living in today's society. People are constantly changing who they are to please society and those around them. Just as the girl in the poem, people even go to the extremes of harming themselves in order to get approval from others. People in today's society, just like the girl in the poem, believe that changing themselves will lead to their happiness. But in the end, changing yourself just to please society will kill the originality that once lied inside of the person, just as it killed the girl in the poem.
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