Beauty and the Beast; or, the Ethics of a Fairy Tale
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Description: Excerpt from an aesthetic realism seminar, with a discussion of the Madame Leprince De Beaumont story.
Beauty and the Beast; or the Ethics of a Fairy Tale Aesthetic Realism & Life the reason fairy tales have been loved throughout the centuries by children and adults alike is because they deal with ethical questions that affect people every day. And some of these stories belong to the great literature of the world because of how richly they put together opposites, such as, good and evil, the strange and the ordinary, surface and depth, appearance and reality--opposites which we want to make sense of in our own lives. "All beauty," Eli Siegel explained, "is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves."
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| Page title: | Beauty and the Beast; or the Ethics of a Fairy Tale |
| Keywords: | Beauty and the Beast, Aesthetic Realism, Eli Siegel, Lynette Abel, appearance and reality, French fairy tale, ethics, aesthetics, surface and depth, strange and the ordinary, Madame De Beaumont |
| Description: | In this Aesthetic Realism essay, I comment on some of the reasons Beauty and the Beast has been loved throughout the centuries, because it deals with ethical questions that affect people every day. |
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