Wide context

Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/Commercials introduce a specific style of life. According to them everyone should buy advertised products in order to reach certain social level, "to keep up with the Joneses". The style of life presented in most of the commercials differs from that of an ordinary man or woman. In those commercials people are always young and beautiful, and the world surrounding them is like from a fairy tale. People are told that they will reach the same standards of living, a wonderful look by buying advertised goods. People, who are not strong enough, go and buy things they do not really need. Sometimes they find, to their surprise, that what they bought is useless and very often of a bad quality. It causes frustration, but again they go and buy, because they do not feel satisfied, as the desire of possessing is stronger than their will.