Berger

Chloe Brotherton

English 1510

September 10, 2012

“Ways of Seeing”

Before you Read

When thinking of a man and a woman together, we picture them appealing, the man strong and attractive, and the woman thin and pretty.  After looking up pictures of men and women, I saw exactly what I expected; a tall, muscular, tan man with a shorter but not too short woman by his side with a nice body and long hair.  Society has made us believe that looks are so important, and if you don’t look like the girl or the boy in the magazine, you aren’t attractive.

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2.  Advertisements use attractive people, mainly women, as objects to get their point across.  It could be an advertisement for anything, baby products, cars, milk, etc., and you can almost guarantee the person(s) used in the advertisement are attractive.  Being unattractive is extremely looked down upon and it’s sad.

4.  The audience is anyone who may be opposed to Berger’s article, especially women.  It seems he is trying to persuade the reader.

5.  The “other” is the thing that attracts us, whether it be a nude person or even an object such as food.  If it were a beer advertisement, it could be a woman in a bikini holding whatever beer is being advertised.