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The Courtship of Mr Lyon:
The Beauty's Character
- At the beginning of the story, Beauty
is described as a beautiful, humble
peaceful and pure girl.
- The Beast sees a photograph of her and he is
amazed by her image of innocence and purity.
He believes she has been "carved out of a single
pearl"
- "absolute sweetness and absolute gravity, as if her eyes might
pierce through appearances and see your soul
- She becomes corrupted by her wealth and her vanity.
- Further in the story she becomes more
egocentric,"she smiled at herself in
mirrors a little too often, these tdays"
- This makes her look beastly and
less beautiful, thinking too much
in herself and not in the others.
- She becomes spoilt, becoming
used to having everything she
wishes for.
- "She was learning, at the end of her
adolescence, how to be a spoiled
child and that pearly skin of hers was
plumping out, a little, with high living
and compliments."
- The only thing she asks to his
father is a white rose.
- "the only thing she wanted, no
matter how the case went, how
rich he might once again be"
- "She longed for the shabby home of their poverty"
- She adores her father, and "would
gladly have gne to the ends of the
earth for her father"
- She stays at the Beast's house for
him to achieve greatness in
London.
- She becomes objectified as
her father uses her as a
method of payment to the
Beast for him not to be hurt
and to achieve greatness.
- "Do not think that she had no will of her own; only, she was possesed by a sense of
obligation in an unusual degree"
- "She stayed, and smiled,
because her father wanted
to do so"
- She ends up falling in love with him, even with all their differences.
- Leaves her father and her life in London for the Beast.
- "Don't die, Beast! If you'll have me, I'll never leave you"
- Goes to dinner to a Beast's
house,putting herself in
danger as she doesn't know
what will happen.
- "They belong to a different order of beauty and, besides, they have no respect for us: why should they?"
- She is physically beautiful, whille the Beast is internaly
beautiful and loving, although he is physically beast-like.
- "with a strange kind o fwonder, almost the dawning of surmise"
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- Gives certain hope to Mr
Lyon, that she migh like
him and not be afraid of
him if she can see his soul.
- She is innocent, submissive and timid, but
ends up being strong and independent.