Beauty and the Beast
The word, beauty, has always been associated with a benign meaning such as goodness, prettiness, and a physical attraction; whereas, the word, beast, has always been related to malign meaning such as savage, ugliness, and a physical repulsion. To have them put in the same sentence is a paradoxical use of language that arouses my curiosity in the book titled Beauty and the Beast. For a long time, I have been pondering the question of the importance of physical beauty: is physical beauty an essence of love? I want to reach an ultimate realization whether outward appearance was important things to me. Through the reading of Beauty and the Beast, even though I realize that the moral of the story is to prefer "character, virtue, and kindness" to "either beauty or wit" (Hallet 111), I still doubt the possibility of love without physical attraction.Donkey Skin is a child story closer to the reality of the society. I think this may be the reason why this story is not very popular and well heard. Parents doesn't want to expose the reality of incest and disobedient to their innocent children. Also from my point of view, love, in reality, is only skin-deep; the love relation in Donkey Skin
The story of the Beauty and the Beast tells me that physical attraction is not an essential element for women to love men. Inner beauty and inner physical beauty exist in the stories that could be rarely susceptible by others except the one. The difference between these two beasts is that one aims at finding the freedom in love and the other aims at finding better quality of love. The well-built innate characters of he Beast, Beauty describes, will be more radiant to make woman happier. In this paragraph, I would like to discuss how author present their beasthoods in each of stories and talk about whether it was a good method. Through the writing of the essay, I wish I could also arrive at an enlightening conclusion that would solve my doubt on the essence of love with connection to physical beauty. He, who was lovable, never applies physical violence to force beauty to consent the marriage. She loves the Beast in the end, marrying him because of his "beauty of character, virtue, and kindness" (Hallet 110). It would be more suitable to say that the authors' presentations of the beasts are been criticized rather than examined. It seems to me that the author presents readers with intent to show that the Beast has well-built innate characteristics. On the other hand, the story of Donkey Skin tells me prince only love someone through physical attraction. This thought leads to emancipate beast from the seal and return to the prince (Hallet 110). I would consider her inner physical beauty as part of inner beauty because this phenomenon was not susceptible to anyone else but the prince. In Donkey Skin, the heroine has the ability to apply the use of enchantment.
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