Sauble Beach By Edward Field
The Price of Beauty
Beauty is often considered one of the greatest assets a person can have by western society. People of all ages, genders, and ethnicities continue to search for new ways to make themselves more physically appealing and youthful. However, in the poem Sauble Beach, Edward Field cautions people from idolizing beauty. He writes the story of a character, warning Carol, another character, from overvaluing physical and materialistic things. Field explores the dangers of relying on external beauty and materialism in order to gain happiness. He does so by examining the ignorance, lost relationships, and fleetful nature associated with overvaluing physical beauty.
Field first explores the danger of overvaluing beauty by reflecting …show more content…
Field explores this through the use of the God Teacher archetype: a person who bring knowledge and awareness to allow their students to lead better lives. In Sauble Beach, the God Teacher is the speaker, who tells Carol that she could be like “the temple of Diana / with [her] magnificent architecture / and host of worshippers” (line 8-10). Diana’s name in the passage is capitalized, showing the importance of the values in which she represents: chastity, and intellectual and emotional beauty. This implies that other people value the qualities that Diana represents more than the values of Venus, whose name is not capitalised. Additionally, the devotion of a “host of worshippers” (l. 10) to their religion is much more everlasting than the infatuation that is the result of physical beauty. This suggests that Diana’s quality of internal beauty creates long-lasting relationships and a legacy. Which, contradicts Carol’s current materialic and narcissistic worldview, that heavily relies of her external beauty, to develop relationships. In Sauble Beach, Field cautions people from living a materialistic lifestyle by demonstrating the legacy and relationships that are lost due to
Beauty is often considered one of the greatest assets a person can have by western society. People of all ages, genders, and ethnicities continue to search for new ways to make themselves more physically appealing and youthful. However, in the poem Sauble Beach, Edward Field cautions people from idolizing beauty. He writes the story of a character, warning Carol, another character, from overvaluing physical and materialistic things. Field explores the dangers of relying on external beauty and materialism in order to gain happiness. He does so by examining the ignorance, lost relationships, and fleetful nature associated with overvaluing physical beauty.
Field first explores the danger of overvaluing beauty by reflecting …show more content…
Field explores this through the use of the God Teacher archetype: a person who bring knowledge and awareness to allow their students to lead better lives. In Sauble Beach, the God Teacher is the speaker, who tells Carol that she could be like “the temple of Diana / with [her] magnificent architecture / and host of worshippers” (line 8-10). Diana’s name in the passage is capitalized, showing the importance of the values in which she represents: chastity, and intellectual and emotional beauty. This implies that other people value the qualities that Diana represents more than the values of Venus, whose name is not capitalised. Additionally, the devotion of a “host of worshippers” (l. 10) to their religion is much more everlasting than the infatuation that is the result of physical beauty. This suggests that Diana’s quality of internal beauty creates long-lasting relationships and a legacy. Which, contradicts Carol’s current materialic and narcissistic worldview, that heavily relies of her external beauty, to develop relationships. In Sauble Beach, Field cautions people from living a materialistic lifestyle by demonstrating the legacy and relationships that are lost due to