English 104
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Instructions
What is Beauty?
Provide your own definition with cited references to the ideas of Scarry, Walker, and Mullin.
General Information
Early civilizations throughout history have preoccupied themselves with music and aesthetics–art and beauty. Great world thinkers have written long treatises on aesthetics–beauty and the mind, musical beauty, and the overall definition of what beauty is. Yet the question about the true nature of beauty and aesthetics has never been answered definitively. Perhaps because these are abstractions or perhaps for other reasons.
Instructions
Using your understanding of Elaine Scarry’s “On Beauty and Being Just,” Alice Walker’s “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self,” and the two videos below, provide your own answer to the question:
What is Beauty?
Provide your own definition with cited references to the ideas of Scarry, Walker, and Mullins.
For citations from readings cite the page number in ( ) from Reading the World. Remember that you ONLY put the number, NOT the letter p or letters pg in the parentheses.
For citations from videos cite the title of the video in quotation marks in ( ).
going to provide the reading pages (attachments)