The Curse of the Lady’s Dressing Room

Jonathan fleets verse form, The Ladys binding Room, is a comic satire that seeks to enter readers the inescapable valetity and its flaws and gory vileness that women have to live with no affair how hard they try to harbour themselves turn out immaculately pulchritudinous on the outside. It could be read as a blame of the extreme efforts women do to make themselves beautiful, and as a criticism of the beholder, the man, who is enamored by the physical knockout only to actualise the imperfections being hidden underneath that flawless exterior in the peeresss dressing d considerably.The dressing manner is where the shift takes place this is where the lady goes in wide and when she get ons out she is a radiant cup of tea and men cannot help themselves. That is what the poem implies that is wherefore the poem begins with a man, Strephon, who is enamored by Celia who takes at least five hours to urinate herself, sneaking in the dressing get on to find out why, and discovers the horrors that goes on not only inside the room tranquillize also with his beloved Celias remains beneath those laces and brocades.He discovers first a dirty Smock appeard, Beneath the Arm-pits well besmeard. Strephon, the Rogue, displayd it wide, And turnd it round on every Side. On much(prenominal) a Point few Words are best, And Strephon bids us jeopardize the rest But swears how damnably the manpower lie, In c everying Celia sweet and cleanly. That in fact, Celia is not as perfect as she seems her materiales have perspiration and heavy(a) smell on them. hat follows bordering is a series of finding another(prenominal) items Celia uses to prepare herself combs with dirt, dandruff and sweat, a piece of cloth with oil used to cover wrinkles, gloves do from Celias dogs cutis when it died, and various little jars filled with pomade, paint, ointments, whole these used to cover her imperfections. Strephon even finds the dispose stockings that reveal stinking toes. No question that at the end of the poem, Strephon could no long-run get a line straight at completely adult female, for his imagination always conjures the images he sawing machine in the dressing room and saw their stinks, their flaws that they try so hard to hide.The bank clerk of the poem says that this is vengeance for his peeping, for if Strephon did no such thing then he could still be blessed when he sees beautiful women without knowing such gaudy Tulips raisd from Dung. Hence this is the curse of the ladys dressing room, that it took the magic and adore for the beholder and made him see the woman as the imperfect creature masquerading to be a work of art. However, the dressing room is also a curse for Celia and all women, as it is the chamber where they feed their fixation to make themselves beautiful for men.In the poem the narrator menti adeptd Celias magnifying Glass, which is alone a reverberate, but in this mirror everything was enlarged, that it can to Sight disclose, The smallest Worm in Celias Nose, And faithfully direct her Nail To hurtle it out from Head to Tail For set out it nicely by the Head, It must come out alive or dead. &8212 that it makes her so insecure to make her transcend measure to look for even the minutest flaws that no one would see anyway.The woman spends a negligible of five hours (perhaps an exaggerated figure, but the layer is that women spend a large enumerate of time preening) and fails to see that real beauty comes from within, not on what is reflected by a piece of glass. The poem shows the readers an image of the education taken to make one look good outside but in so doing shows that perhaps it is natures way that makes it so difficult that we should ask to appreciate each other and ourselves, flaws included, for we all have them.This is not to say to introduce hygiene, but merely to examine what activities we spend time on. The curse of the dressing room is that it makes us believe in the thaumaturgy that media sells us the dream of that perfect skin, that Barbie body, that photoshopped face, that if we make up ourselves as long as we need to we can transcend our human bodies flaws. But we cannot, because all these are part of what makes us who we are.