The pursuit of beauty is an innate instinct of human beings, and even on the basis of the development of human society, aesthetics has been produced, a special discipline.
Through a series of ways and means, it allows us to learn to know beauty, appreciate beauty, and discover beauty. But is beauty defined?
Obviously, there is none, because beauty itself is a subjective problem, thousands of faces, we cannot define what is beautiful and what is ugly from a person's point of view alone.
But in the big social environment, in fact, beauty and ugliness still have a certain division, because the public's aesthetics are actually close.
For example, the design of oriental women's squinting eyes in the graduation design of the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, which was very controversial, was resisted and criticized by the public.
Indeed, aesthetics can be diversified, but it can never present a situation that goes against the public's aesthetics and is divorced from reality, and it is inevitable to be resisted by everyone.
However, in the era when everyone pursues beauty, some people do the opposite and are playing ugly. The one we are going to talk about today is the famous ugly woman in Britain, a great mother who has to play ugly in order to live.
What is the reason why girls who should be pursuing beauty choose to play ugly?
01 Mary Ann Bevan
In London in 1874, Mary Ann Bevin was born into a family of extremely poor workers.
At that time, Britain was in the period of the Industrial Revolution, with rapid economic development and rapid social development, but under this situation, the gap between the rich and the poor in Britain was also very large.
Mary was born into a family that was not good, and as the youngest child in the family, Mary also had seven older siblings.
But it was both unfortunate and fortunate that the seven older siblings were older at the time, and most of them were already working to earn money.
The youngest, Mary, became the object of favor of her older siblings. Under the care of her parents and older siblings, Mary's life was relatively stable since she was a child.
In addition, Mary was able to study, from elementary school to high school, with the support of her brothers and sisters, Mary read it all in full, and also successfully entered medical school and became a nurse.
In London at the time, it was already a very good job for ordinary people like Mary to be a nurse, after all, many people were still working as cheap labor in dark and damp factories.
Coupled with Mary's beautiful appearance, she is more outstanding among the nurses and is very popular with patients.
At this time, Mary received a salary far higher than ordinary people, and had a promising career, which should be smooth sailing, but there were always some things that caught her off guard.
Beautiful looks naturally attract many people's pursuit, and Mary is the same, when working at Mary Hospital, many people are pursuing Mary. But in the end, it was a man named Thomas who married Mary, and everything was so beautiful from falling in love to entering the palace of marriage to having children.
At this time, Mary was a mother of four children, a loving husband, and a stable job.
It can be said that it is a very perfect life. But at this time, Mary had a problem.
Mary, who entered middle age, began to find that her physical condition was getting worse and worse, her body joints were painful, and her skin condition was not as good as before.
Often headaches, even work can not be completed, the most serious is Mary's head, unexpectedly began to swell inexplicably.
As a nurse in the hospital, Mary also saw many strange symptoms, which made her realize that something might be wrong with her, so she immediately went to the hospital for examination.
In the hospital, a bad news came that Mary had an extremely rare form of gigantism.
02 Gigantism
The strange disease of gigantism is still common in modern society.
In the early stages of the patient, gigantism is actually not visible, not even any symptoms.
Mary was the same in her early days, with a beautiful appearance and no condition at all. However, once the disease occurs, it will accumulate over time and gradually complicate, and the most significant feature of gigantism is the change of physical symptoms.
For example, zygomatic carina, giant nose and large ears, lip and tongue hypertrophy; Thick skin all over the body, sweaty, fatty, etc. In addition, the sick person will become speechless, slurred speech, and increasingly ugly appearance.
In many modern patients with gigantism, we can see the corresponding characteristics, in the context of the development of modern science and medical treatment, the treatment of gigantism is still more difficult.
It is necessary to combine surgery, radiation, drugs and other medical means for treatment, but whether it can be fully recovered is still an uncertain issue.
In the early nineteenth century, although Mary entered the industrial revolution and was the development period of modern medicine in the West, a series of means were not mature enough, and even the cognitive experience of gigantism was insufficient.
This added a lot of difficulties to Mary's governance.
At this time, Mary was only thirty years old, and the beautiful girl who was once pursued by countless people has now become extremely ugly.
The lack of medical technology made Mary's treatment extremely difficult, but Mary and her husband did not give up, and the two continued to run for hope.
But at this time, what made Mary despondent was not that there was nowhere to treat, but in the process of seeking a doctor, her husband Thomas died unfortunately due to overwork.
This was undoubtedly a thunderbolt for Mary, who was seriously ill, and without her husband's company, Mary was in despair, and even thought about dying many times.
But looking back at the four children around her, Mary was distressed again.
All four children were young at the time, and if Mary had left, the four children would have lived on the streets with nowhere to go.
But at this time, Mary had no job, and due to the change in appearance and sick body, Mary was no longer able to work as a nurse.
Because of her ugly appearance, many patients began to insult Mary, and even complained to the hospital many times, saying that Mary had frightened them.
The hospital had no choice but to fire Mary, which made the already not wealthy family even worse.
And because of Mary's appearance, many jobs were rejected by Mary at that time, and Mary had no choice but to go to the dock with the workers in a turban.
This is used to earn a small salary to raise children and seek opportunities to cure strange diseases.
In fact, as a nurse, Mary has long recognized that her strange disease is almost impossible to treat, and the medical methods at that time, in the face of such a strange disease as Mary's gigantism, are basically helpless, and the final result is to wait for the condition to become more and more serious, and finally die without a cure.
However, accidents always come when you are unloveable.
03 Ugly Contest
Perhaps it was people's curiosity, or perhaps the endless desires and boring ideas of the capitalists in Europe and the United States at that time, and there was an ugly contest at that time.
This is a very special competition, ugly. But judging by the purpose of the competition, we will find that this is almost disgusting, after all, what girl wants to admit that she is ugly?
Therefore, in order to keep the competition going, the competition organizers specially set up a generous prize money, and the prize money received by the champion was enough to keep Mary's family fed and clothed for many years.
For Mary, participating in the ugly contest is tantamount to revealing her own scars. But looking at the children waiting to be nursed and the destitute house, Mary still put down her dignity and chose to participate in the competition.
Mary's behavior was opposed by her family at the time and ridiculed by the residents of the town, who accused Mary and insulted Mary.
But at this time, Mary has long ceased to be afraid of this, after all, life is the most important thing, for life, these gossip cannot knock him down.
In the end, Mary went to the competition area, perhaps because God took care of it, or maybe there were fewer people at that time, and after a series of selections, Mary became the champion of the first ugly contest.
Looking at the generous bonus, Mary smiled happily, and at the same time Mary also realized that instead of being sullen every day, it was better to make good use of it. After this, Mary found a circus and joined it to perform, and the theme of the performance was to play ugly.
Ugly, disgusting, monsters, almost follow Mary every day, but Mary no longer cares, watching life getting better and better, the children's faces are full of smiles, and Mary feels that her grievances are nothing.
Under Mary's care, all four children thrived, learning their favorite knowledge and skills, and Mary was great as a mother.
But while Mary worked, his condition was deteriorating and his health was getting worse and worse. Finally, when Mary was sixty years old, her body could not bear the torment of illness, and Mary finally left the world.
At this time, Mary's children had grown up, some had already married wives and had children, and their families were harmonious and happy, and their jobs were stable.
This was the best reward for Mary.
However, after Mary's death, Mary's children did not bury her, but sold it to a merchant.
The reason was that Mary's gigantism was relatively rare at the time, and a merchant wanted to get Mary's body and offered a high price.
Mary's children, lured by money, chose to sell their mother's body to merchants.
After the merchant got the body, in order to better preserve Mary's body, he even made a specimen and collected it as a novelty object.
Mary's body specimen was collected by many collectors and eventually housed in a museum for future generations to enjoy.
As a mother, Mary did not hesitate to play ugly to please others in the name of an ugly woman, in order to let her children have a good life.
From her mother's point of view, Mary was great, worthy of respect and praise. Even though she was plagued by illness, Mary never gave up hope in life, with the aim of raising her children and raising them as adults.