greek mythology

In Greek mythology, all Goddesses were beautiful. According to Susan Sontag, the reason why women care about their “outer beauty rather than polishing their “inner beauty” traces all the way back to the ancient Greece. The figures in the mythology implies that the more beautiful, the more power one will have. A vivid image of one beautiful woman on public TV shows tend to brainwash people’s mind about the importance of outer beauty. Often times, people tend to forget what the “real” beauty is. The importance of the balance in both inner and outer beauty is crucial, Sontag implies.
Conceptual Connection to the text (Susan Sontag) Susan Sontag insists that sometimes people pay attention only to their outer beauty than the inner beauty. As I mentioned in the essay, I too think that the reason why more and more people are willing to get a non-medical purposed plastic surgery is because they only pay attention to their appearance and care about how other’s may think about their outlooks. The author maintains that it is partially due to the social influence. People nowadays are prone to the public TV shows, commercials and movies that aim to grab the audience’s attention by projecting the what is to be thought “idealized” female and male performers. Her theory of the origin of our obsession with beautiful women explained how most women including me behave in certain ways. On page 245, Sontag notes “associating beauty with women has put beauty even further on the defensive, morally.” Because we mistakenly think that “we must be beautiful in order to socialize,” people think of the word “beauty” as very defensive, forceful obligation.

Assignment,-- what has Sontag not explained about, not described. Clarification on why she things the beauty is only a negative word to woman but not man.