Beauty and the Beast.
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Beauty and the Beast "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a saying that is, unfortunately, highly misleading. In a place where society rules, it is society itself that is the beholder, society that decides what is beautiful and what is not. Over history, fashions have changed to dictate society on how they must look- each method more dangerous than the last. From the iron corsets of the 1600's to the beginning of cosmetic surgeries of the early 1900's, this is not the end, but merely one time span in the history of humanity. People are prone to prefer good looks, according to whatever society has in mind for the time, to good health. This research paper will seek to prove that it is the ignorance and need for acceptance and approval, combined with centuries of tradition and expectations, that drives women to particular extremes to follow the current...

