My goal for this essay is to try and figure out why things are beautiful. Essentially to figure out if there is some kin of standard for why humans perceive certain things as beautiful. I plan to accomplish this by breaking down various things that are known as beautiful and kind of dissect why these things are beautiful. I plan on talking about topics from art, to landscapes, to even architecture and figure out what the similarities to why they are beautiful are. One article that I chose interviews many different people from different backgrounds and asks them about what they think about beauty. Essentially I want to go through as many different definitions and reasonings behind beauty as possible and see whats consistent between them. The biggest challenge I see is that my thesis is very broad and I’m not quite sure that what I’m trying to say will be very clear.  Another challenge that poses an equal threat is that I’m scared my essay will just turn into a big list of examples of beauty and will lose it’s drive and focus. If I find one of these challenges are too hard to solve, then my back-up plan would be to edit my thesis so it’s much more specific. I have plenty of examples of beauty through my various sources so I feel as though I could still confidently back up a completely new thesis.

Revised Thesis: Beauty is a universal feeling to all humans but it is not felt in the same way for the same moments or objects for everyone. Is there anything objectively beautiful to all humans?