Comparing The Bachelor And Cinderella

Completing the Equation For decades, society has introduced fairytales to children at a young age. As the children grow older, they are exposed to more stories, such as television shows. As each child grows mentally and emotionally, they are exposed to the idea that happiness can only be found in love. This love is usually found between two beautiful people, such as in ABC’s The Bachelor and Charles Perrault’s timeless fairytale “Cinderella”. Each of these exerts shed light on society’s view of happiness and the idea that we, as members of society, are expected to agree and achieve this type throughout our lifetime. What we are not told as children, however, is that there is more to life than love. For as long as most people can remember,

In the first episode of The Bachelor, season eighteen, twenty-seven women are introduced to one man whom they all believe they will love. As the night goes on, personal interviews reveal that these women all felt that their life was missing something without a man. In the first episode, each of the women were dressed in their finest gowns with perfect hairstyles, and were given only a few seconds to give a lasting impression to the bachelor, Juan Pablo. In this example, a direct correlation exists between the Prince’s ball in “Cinderella” and this opening night. The Prince, like Juan Pablo, is given a pool of beautiful women to choose from, with barely anything to remember them by other than their looks (“Limo Arrivals”). One can see the strong impression society is giving that beauty is a key element in finding happiness. Both scenarios, once again, invite audiences to believe that love, beauty, and marriage are the key to

The most evident example of our society defining happiness by love and beauty is the advertisements we see in our daily life. An axe cologne commercial, aired during the 2014 Super Bowl promoted its product through a new video titled “Make Love, Not War”. This commercial showed the world how hard life can be with the wars that go on every day in foreign countries, but with love (conveyed by beautiful actors and actresses), everything is perfect (Axe Peace). And so, Axe cologne can give the buyer both beauty and love. This commercial is only one example of advertisements that simply reinforce the definition of happiness we have known since age