In the article, Privacy and Speculation in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain by Tita Chico, Chico explains how many of the satires that Jonathan Swift has published involved the ladies of the stories performing acts one would not normally hear of. She first begins by saying that the gentlemen’s closet was public and open about what matters men attended to; however, the ladies’ closet showed a private appearance. Women never talked about their private matters of defecating in front of anyone. Swift uses his passages to show a more grotesque side of women. He pictures them as being dressed up like dolls which can be seen in his passage “Beautiful Young Nymph.” In the story, Corinna, a women seen for her beauty, is dismembered and shown to have a body made of …show more content…
Waking up, Corinna finds that all her prosthetics are in disarray. Corinna must then find a conclusion in uniting her limbs, which the satire uses the toilet “as an act of willful, even painful, construction.” Women’s image becomes more faltered in another one of Swift’s satires, “The Progress of Beauty.” This passage shows a bright young woman named Celia that uses makeup to cover her skin. She uses all shades of red, black, and white to portray herself as a beautiful woman. However, when she goes to bed for the night, in the morning she wakes to have her makeup, a mess all over her face. Her skin also shows the effects of what a beautiful woman looks like after sleeping around, showing symptoms of syphilis. Chico can be quoted with the story saying, “The sexually active female body becomes an ugly body, out of place and with no chance to be beautiful.” The last of the passages mentioned in the article was “The Lady’s Dressing Room.” In the story, a beautiful woman, again, named Celia is seen by her love Strephon as perfect. To his knowledge, he searches for things she left behind. This search leads Strephon to find Celia’s chamber