ADLINGTON IS A TRAPPED AND WOUNDED PERSON

 Our skin deep culture is obsessed with the trivial, the transient and the superficial. We saturate ourselves with egocentricity and egg up our obsessive pursuit of success and 'perfection' and then wonder why personalities fall apart with inconsistencies. Adlington is a trapped and wounded person. She has achieved so much that would be the envy of many. In doing so, she has inadvertently defeated her rivals, dashed their dreams and left them flailing in their failure, only then to be still preoccupied with her appearance. This level of self obsession is replicated in many celebrities and often spurs them into self abuse. It is a disturbance of the mind brought about by the distortion created when we give undue attention to appearance as opposed to the inner human qualities that build rounded individuals and a coherent society.