"The Courtship of Mr. Lyon"
--This version is very different from Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast. In Sexton's version the reader does not see the reason for the Beast's appearance yet they can see that he still has some human qualities; he cares for Beauty yet he is aware of his masculinity. His claws repulse her while his otherness attracts her. His otherness is what drives her away and brings back to him. Love changes him into a "real" man. Is that saying that to be a real person you have to be in love? Fairy Tales have given society a false sense what life is supposed to be like, they show the "perfect" courtship, the "perfect" marriage and that's it. They show none of the problems or how to work through the problems of a marriage.
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Kayla: maybe the idea that "only love" can save you from yourself, redeem you in some way, is part of the ideology we were thinking about earlier. Fairy Tales repeat it to us over and over again, and so we believe it to be true . . . .
ReplyDeletecome on! dont we all want that happily ever after? although i agree. we dont ever see reality. working at bell tower i made friends with the full timers and it seems that none of them are happy in their marriages... its a sad sad reality. i hope that if i marry someday its a fairy tale kind of thing! i know there will be rough times but overall i dont want to feel the way i know other people who are married do.
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