In today's world, the pursuit of thinness has increased due to the association it has with physical attractiveness and body perfection. Society, especially Western culture, idolizes thin body size as the ideal body image. And as a result, when people take this situation to extremes, eating disorders can develop. Scholars have examined all forms of persuasive tools that may explain the popularity of anorexia nervosa. From the use of language (Burke, 1966) to the power of culture in terms of presumed knowledge (Dumit, 2003) and its growing interest in the ideal body image of Western culture (Vandereycken and van Deth, 1994). Kenneth Burke's “Terministic Screens” (1966) uses the metaphor of camera lenses to explain that language and words influence and determine how we see the world. While Burke introduces two approaches to the nature of language, I want to focus on the “dramatistic” approach (Burke 44). With the “dramatic” (Burke 44), Burke argues that since we all possess our own frame of reference or symbols to interpret the world, words and thoughts can never be objective as their force relies on interpretations. The symbols therefore become a sort of screen through which the world is seen and for this reason our realities are unique. In their article “From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation” (1994), Walter Vandereycken and Ron van Note that anorexia nervosa is not a modern crisis. They claim that this particular eating disorder is actually rooted in Western culture. Vandereycken and van Deth argue that voluntary starvation has evolved over time. Both scholars recognize that what began as a hunger for religious rituals to achieve religious piety has now morphed into…half of paper…for seeking out and creating pro-ana websites. However, the Internet is not to blame and you can't simply block all pro-ana websites to reduce the problem, as they will return to the web. The problem here is based on the cultural factors we have created in today's society. Works Cited Burke, Kenneth. "Termistic screens". Language as symbolic action: essays on life, literature and method. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. 44-62. Print.Fahnestock, Jeanne. “Housing Science: The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts.” Written communication. 3.3. (1986): 275-296. Print.Gardner, Paula. “Distorted packaging: marketing depression as a disease, drugs as a cure.” Journal of Medical Humanities. 24,½. (2003): 105-130. Print.Jane, Mary. The new nation Pro Ana and Mia. Blogspot. Nd Web. 24 February. 2014..