Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
The character Beauty
- Adolescence
- Lives with her father, depends on him.
Innocent, inner beauty,
simple, not materialistic.
- "The one white rose she said she
wanted...She asked for so little"
- Does not ask for much, lives simply.
- Life with Mr Lyon
- Scared,
disgusted by the Beast´s
physical appearance.
- ..."when she saw the grat
paws lying on the arm of his
char, she thought: they are
the death of any tender
herbivore."
- At the beggining
- Pretends to be happy and
comfortable, for his father.
- "Yet she stayed, and smiled, because her father
wanted her to do so".
- Shows her love for his father, wants to help him.
- "She would gladly have gone to the ends of
the earth for her father, whom she loved
dearly."
- After some time...
- Starts enjoying her life in the
castle. Feels comfortable.
- "...against all her expectations, she
was happy there."
- Feelings for the Beast,
likes him.
- "She was moved almost to tears that he
should care for her so. It was in her heart to
drop a kiss upon his shaggy mane"
- Life in London
- Life as she had never know it. Rich life, wealth.
- "...her father was rich
again(...) his credit brought
him nothing but the best"
- "A resplendent hotel, the opera, theatres (...) parties"
- Shows her new luxurious life.
- Starts being corrupted by the
wealth, vanity, luxury.
- "She was learning, at the end of her
adolescence, how to be a spoiled child"
- Becomes materialistic, cares about
physical beauty.
- "she took off her earrings in front of
the mirror, Beauty"
- "...she smiled at herself in mirrors
a little too often, these days, and
the face that smiled back was not
quite the one she had seen
contained in the Beasts agate
eyes"
- Contrast with her beauty when
living with the Beast.
- Change in personality. Arrogant, hysterical, complains.
- "...her sweetness and her gravity
could sometimes turn a mite
petulant when things went on not
quite as she wanted them to go"
- Returns to Mr Lyon´s castle
- Inner beauty revives in her again.
- Shows her feelings for the Beast
- "Dont die, Beast! If you´ll have me, i´ll neve leave yo."
- Doesn´t care about
physical beauty
anymore.
- "covered his poor paws
with her kisses"
- Not disgusted by him.
- Had left as a child, comes back as an adult.