Appearance In Frankenstein

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You’re Ugly, but We Can Still be Friends
When the question of why we are such a judgmental and superficial culture comes about the answers seem to be everywhere. From day one we are unintentionally taught to label and categorize everything and everyone. It seems that human nature is to put things into groups and separate things, especially since the Greeks began to categorize and bring science into the world. Our culture has evolved into an appearance driven monster but the roots have grown stronger, when the ignorance of many has led to the enslavement of a race of people. If we continue to base our culture on appearance the downward spiral will continue and our culture will continue to regress; before we know it Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the governor of California....wait a minute. One word has been the cause of reversion and destruction of values, after years of great strides toward equality, “sex” has become a tool used by the media to get ratings and advertize. We are sold things by sexually appealing actors or models that tell us that if we “use MetRx” we can get buff, and if we “use Covergirl” we can be as pretty or strong as the people we idolize. I feel sad when I think about losing that job at Albertson’s because I wasn’t dressed in a suit. If they had possibly asked me a few questions about my qualifications they may have realized that I was more qualified to work there than 90 percent of their employees. Instead they saw that I wasn’t dressed in slacks and assumed that I couldn’t stock shelves as well as others, which is absurd, much like the idea of first impressions, and how people look. Although the characters in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein live in a different time period, their basis of ones character seems to be almost solely founded on how someone looks.
Putting people into categories is not a new problem by any means because it has been rooted deep in human history. It seems as though it...