In "The Beauty of a Woman: Humiliation or a Source of Power", Susan Sontag describes how a woman's beauty has been degraded despite being called beautiful and how this conceives their true identity as it seems to portray innocence and honesty while hiding the ugliness of the truth. Over the years, women have been classified as the gentler sex and considered the fairer gender. Sontag uses narrative structure to express the conventional attitude, which defines beauty as a concept applied today only to women and their external appearance. He does this by using the technique of contrast to distinguish the beauty between men and women and by establishing variation in his essay, using effective language. Sontag presents her essay to the audience by establishing a focal point around the fact that women seen today are derived from the religious perspective of how women were seen in history. During ancient times, Greeks and Christians practiced their own methods of analyzing and criticizing women and their beauty. The Greeks believed that the lack of “inner” beauty could be compensated for with “outer” beauty. They distinguished the two beauties in a way that suggested that both were interconnected with each other within one individual. Preference and priority was given to “external” beauty, while “internal” beauty was kept at bay. Christianity, however, gave a moral meaning to beauty; in defining beauty, or words of a physical nature to be associated with women and the feminine. Gradually, Sontag introduces distinguishable beauty between men and women. It does so by summarizing how in a Christian religion, a woman's body was divided into many sections to be judged and examined, while men are visua...... at the center of the card......, women seek to make yourself look good to attract the best possible opportunities. Susan Sontag not only emphasizes the disproportionate catastrophe of women and their external beauty, but also tries to convince her audience that there is more to a woman than just her appearance; there is another individual just beneath the ugliness. Works Cited “A Woman’s Beauty.” - Write Work. Np, nd Web. November 26, 2013. “AP Language and Composition.” : The beauty of a woman: soaps and dials denigrating or source of energy. Np, nd Web. November 26, 2013. “Unit Seven.” Unit Seven. Np, nd Web. November 26, 2013." ." Electronic typing portfolio. Np, nd Web. November 26. 2013. .