?Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? is one of the best known proverbs. In the Twilight Zone short, "Eye of the Beholder?" that same proverb is used as a metaphor to demonstrate how beauty and acceptance are illustrated in the real world. The film tells the story of a woman whose horribly deformed face has made her a lifelong outcast. Now he faces nearly a dozen final operations for one last chance to look normal with the help of invisible surgeons. First, in the ?Eye of the Beholder? we see the bandaged woman's longing for normality. She is constantly haunted by the memory of a little girl screaming because of her deformed physical appearance. We are also reminded that those who look ?different? will be sent to an isolated location with others with the same ?disability.? Having said this, the sense of the idealistic society of Nazism comes to mind. For example, the Nazis sent those who looked different from ordinary blond, blue-eyed Germans to a concentration camp. Also, the woman in the eye of the beholder? not only did she desire beauty but she felt the need for acceptance. This was denied to her when she was taken to a disabled camp. It is surprising how in the film people were separated and treated unequally because of their physical appearance and, as a result, could not share the same society. This is actually a metaphor for how discrimination once existed in an extreme way in this society. For example, African Americans once had to use: different bathrooms, water fountains, and were even segregated in non-white schools. They were even isolated in the worst parts of the cities. In conclusion, in the Twilight Zone short film, ?Eye of the Beholder? the themes of beauty and acceptance are used as a metaphor for the
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