Womed & society

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8 October 2007

Women and Society

The novel Bridget Jones Diary ' is a good depiction of how a woman struggles to cope with the people around her while keeping in mind about the things that matter to her . It reflected how a woman balanced her life despite the challenges that she constantly face . One of these challenges is how to remain beautiful as time goes by , as people around you grow old . It showed a struggle to look beautiful , feel beautiful and stay beautiful

a struggle to conform to the women 's beauty myth

In this novel , the beauty myth was that women should stay sexy and beautiful no matter what happens . This is shown by the main character Bridget Jones . In the novel , she is a woman in her 30 's who s still single and overweight . She smokes a lot , and when she tries to quit , she finds it hard to do so . When she realizes that she is way off the women 's beauty myth , she tries hard to do away with her vices and lose weight , as well as find herself a man to settle down with . Looking at Bridget 's situation , we can say that she is clearly trying to fit in to the beauty myth , wherein the physical aspect is the most important factor of a person 's beauty . In to do so , she is willing to give up everything that she was used to , and is very willing to change her way of life ADDIN EN .CITE KesselmanAmy KesselmanLily D McNairNancy SchniedewindWomen Images Realities , A Multicultural Anthology640Third2002McGraw-Hill Humanities /Social Sciences /Languages (Kesselman , McNair and Schniedewind

She seemed unhappy with herself at that time , wherein she was single and overweight . Here we can see that the beauty myth is stretched out to mean that a woman cannot attract a man if she 's old-looking and weighs a little more . They view that falling for someone is purely physical attraction , and that if you want someone to fall for you , you have to make yourself physically appealing , just like what Bridget Jones think She lacks confidence in herself , that 's why she is willing to do anything just to change

Another beauty myth being shown in the novel , Bridget Jones Diary was regarding aging . At the start of the novel , we see Bridget Jones as a 30-something single woman who doesn 't have any love life . For her , she is trailing n the relationship bandwagon and she needs to catch up . Age seemed to be a defining factor in this novel , considering that as a 30-something-year old , Bridget thinks of herself as getting old , and that she has to change the situation

Bridget fears that at her age , no one would get attracted to her anymore that 's why she resorted to flirting with her boss at work Despite knowing that her boss is a known womanizer , Bridget still pushed her luck since she feared that it...