Venn Diagram
Corset
Foot Binding
Similarities
-original: practice
in China
-both are ancient
tool and tradition.
-apply on foot
-both are for beauty
-for woman only
-can cause permanent
disability and severe
deformity on feet and
flesh rotting.
- Both can cause
illness.
-original: practice in
ancient Greek
-apply on waist
-for man and woman
-can cause deform in
internal organ and
hard to breath.
Essay for comparison and contrast (Foot binding and Corset)
Physical beauties become the main priority for most people, it occurs since
ancient time, where ancient people design lot of tools and ways for get physical
beauty. One of the tool and way is corset and foot biding. These paragraphs below
will tell about the similarities and difference of corset and foot binding.
These are some of similarities of corset and foot binding. One of them is both
corset and foot binding are ancient tool and tradition which exist century ago. Both
corset and foot binding also wear in young age and it is for maintain the person body
part shape. Both of corset and foot binding also share same reason that is for beauty
and keeping woman as the weaker and dependent sex. Corset and foot binding can
also cause illnesses to the person who using them.
Besides similarities corset and foot binding also have differences. Even
though both are from ancient time, corset origin is from Greek while foot binding is
from China. Both are use to maintain shape of body but corset is apply on waist
while foot binding is apply on leg. Corsets are commonly worn by woman yet it can
also be wear by man but foot binding is for woman only. Corset can cause deform in
internal organ and hard to breath while foot binding can cause permanent disability
and severe deformity on feet and also flesh rotting.
To put this into a nutshell, corset and foot binding are some of ancient tools
and traditions for beauty and also to discriminate woman. These ancients knowledge
are effective in maintaining body shape yet it gives severe effect of illness to the
user. Beauty might be important but we should consider our own health. Despite on
doing harmful things for beauty we can use different method such as healthy diet
and exercise.