-Anna
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Halloween
I began to wonder, is it possible that people love the holiday Halloween so much because they have a chance to dress up in a new character? A chance to be someone else for a night? Is this why so many girls dress in small dresses and heels? Because on any given night, most girls would not dress in this manner, they would be talked about behind their backs and stereotyped. On Halloween, however, no one would say a thing about what anyone looks like. I think people love halloween for this reason. It makes me think of the looking glass self because in a way it is the exact opposite of what the looking glass self is. The looking glass self is how a person thinks others feel and think about them, but on halloween, no one really cares.
-Anna
-Anna
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Anna makes a valid point. She used a good example, such as Halloween, to describe the looking self theory. Halloween IS a chance for people to dress in a different character. People even take so far in ways to actually ACT like their character.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a very good example because people use this for an opportunity to become something they aren't, and it is often someone pretty or sexual.
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