Advertising By Angela Hartlin Analysis

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In the article The Harm That’s Caused by Transparent Messages in Advertising by Angela Hartlin, she addresses how humans look at TV commercials and advertisements and compare ourselves to the models displaying the products. “[W]e are more concerned with our own real or perceived short-comings, which cloud our reality of the altered proof,” (Hartlin, paragraph 2) Hartlin states. We, as humans, get so caught up in what the people on these ads look like that we are selling the product to ourselves because we think that if we get this product that they have we are, in return, going to attain the “ultimate beauty” (Hartlin, paragraph 2). Since this article is mostly about the beauty we think we will get from using the products that these models use, or that “some procedure will erase all evident …show more content…

I believe this represents the “I say/they say” concept because Hartlin talks about how these companies are trying to sell you with these advertisements of these “sexy” models so people will buy their products because we think that with these products they will look like the models. Then with Hartlin’s second to last sentence is “you have the ability to improve yourself but defining how that will happen dictates the optimism your future holds,” (Hartlin, paragraph 7) this demonstrates what she thinks of their

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