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Choose a chapter from Ways of Seeing by John Berger. Ask what is the thesis of the chapter, make the answer your thesis. Anaylsis and examples from the chapter to back up the thesis. MLA format, 5 pages, double spaces.
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger: “Chapter 3”
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The book “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger has portrayed the power of the eye to what
humanity creates in mind and what they reveal by their own words. In different chapters, it has
elaborated various aspects, all related to the power of sight. Chapter three, in this case, stands
iconic in its view and reflection if how men and women co-relate and how women are subjective
to the sexual feelings and pleasures of man. In this chapter, the power of paintings, pictures, and
images have actively been used to advance the thesis of difference in nature and sexism driven
by women. Men have used women as an object of pleasure thereby winning them in a manner
that women will always try to look attractive to men.
Thesis statement: according to convections and usage, the social presence of a woman is
different from that of a man as a woman is socially and sexually subjective to man.
In this case, the book has sought to give an elaboration on the difference of appearance,
view, and expectations from men and women. There is a considerable variation in this case.
From the happenings of nature and other general perceptions created by humanity, the famine
body is portrayed in a different version than it is for man. The difference in this case, neither
does it arise from the feminine nor masculine nature of the two beings. The difference in the
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imaging of these two results from the view that the “ideal” spectator of a woman image is always
assumed to be a man (Berger, 47). In this case, woman images are designed to flatter men. A
critical example of this is driven by the advocating of one to choose a nude picture of a woman
from a traditional nude book. One should then transform this naked woman into a man right in
their thinking. In this case, the transformation creates a vi...
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