Doctor Miami On Snapchat Analysis

Everyone has serious life experiences that have an effect his or her life choices. Being such, he or she has a different perspective towards people and society. How so does the society shape person’s perspective? One of my life experiences that greatly shows how popular public opinion has affected society which made an impact on me. From my experience, I will compare the time with two literary piece, how my experience correlated with them, and provided proof explanations with quotes.

Body image and acceptance were related in experience in which society that affected me. The general image of males and females have changed because of social media. Men are supposed to be muscular, toned and have a six pack; meanwhile, women are supposed to have

Doctor Miami is a plastic surgeon who helps people feel better about themselves; to my knowledge, it is the same effect as in the poem Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy. His snapchat is a video recording of his surgery on patients. After viewing his snapchat, I realized people of different ethnicities and origins go to change some aspect about themselves. Most body augmentations or reduction surgeries are influenced to look like the image of a celebrity which is more pleasing to public view. “The girlchild was born as usual” is the first line of the poem that refer to every women that walks in for beauty modification. Most of the patients, majorly women, are naturally beautiful and do not need silicon breast or butt lift to become more appealing. Evidence is found in the quote, “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs” which brings up a negative connotation. Majority of people who go for surgery are either unhappy with their looks or someone made them feel uncomfortable about

Doctor Miami does an exquisite job at what he does, but usually the same people come back over and over for new procedures. The idea of a perfectly symmetrical human being is a logical fallacy. This piece describes the man as “Clean favored, and imperially slim… and glitter when he walked” meaning the man was gorgeous. The people returned to his clinic to try to correct all the problems he or she have with his or her body. Even though I am intrigued at the sight surgical methods and apparatuses, it depresses me that some people have to feel as comfortable and confident as Richard Cory to go under the knife. I could see these people being put to sleep, so a knife can remove the fat and skin off unwanted area while blood trickling down the operating table. It is a very gruesome sight especially to see needle and suture placed in a person’s abdomen. At the end of watching his snapchat story, I realize that surgery is not the means to be one with the body. Even with corrected flaws, outer beauty does not provide true happiness; an example of this statement is shown in Richard Cory, “...[he] Went home and put a bullet through his head. ”or in Barbie Doll where “she cut her nose and her legs….[and ended up] In the casket displayed on satin she lay [and people finally claimed her to be pretty]”.There are several ways to better oneself and surgery is not the way. In