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Society's Standards In Barbie Doll By Marge Piercy

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Barbie Doll is written by Marge Piercy in 1973.She wrote this poem with a clear point to point out one of our society flaws.While Not everyone views this as a bad thing, but how societies pressures are influencing girls to live up to society's standards has a damaging effect on females and gives them low standards goals on life such as just being a housewife.The poem opens up with the narrator speaking in third person. Throughout the poem the person speaks in a light-hearted sarcastic tone. The theme of the poem is how young girls in society are expected to live up to society's standard of beauty. There is proof throughout the paragraph showing this sad trait. In lines 1-5 The girl is playing with baby dolls, make up, and stoves. She
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