Beauty. We’ve heard that word repeatedly through our lives but what does it really mean? Majority of people find beauty to be something dealing with physical attributes, when in fact it can also deal with the inner self as well. What one person might find to beautiful maybe completely different from what another person finds beautiful. We then must wonder how an individual came about to defining what is beautiful according to them. Now we can’t simply say that beauty is the eye of the beholder. Before we start saying what is beautiful we must first state why is it beautiful. Once we have some description of beauty we can go by then we can apply it to people and things. I will discuss the definition of beauty, socializations role in the definition of beauty and the importance of inner beauty. The main idea to keep in mind is that beauty is different for everyone and that is what makes beauty such an interesting concept.
Once we define beauty as being this or that we then put a boundary on it. Since beauty is different for everybody, it shouldn’t have limits to it. So we must be careful when defining it to prevent ourselves from excluding something that could be described as beautiful. In order to define beauty we must define it in such a way that it is able to be applied to many things as oppose to only being applied to one. Beauty is used to describe someone or something that is amazing, unique, respected, and brings pleasure to us and our senses. However, what is beautiful to you can differ from someone else. You might look at a particular painting and think, “Wow that is truly beautiful.” Someone can look at the same exact painting and think otherwise. This is what makes beauty itself so wonderful because of its ability to change from person to person. And because beauty varies from person to person, we can not say one person is more right about beauty than another. As much as beauty is applied to the physical looks of an object or person, it