tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8577968181719652880.post3895751187184329309..comments2023-08-02T03:39:56.942-07:00Comments on Alice in Baker Street: Teasing out the "Beautiful" and the "Ugly" in Fairy Tales and Victorian LiteratureJess Ferrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220022324362170276noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8577968181719652880.post-71327294621489853582013-03-11T08:33:38.470-07:002013-03-11T08:33:38.470-07:00That is so true!! I hadn't thought about it f...That is so true!! I hadn't thought about it from that perspective as much, but totally makes sense. Thank you for your thoughts!!Jess Ferrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06220022324362170276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8577968181719652880.post-15417513078484570962013-03-09T18:24:41.882-08:002013-03-09T18:24:41.882-08:00I like your point about how we bring a modern inte...I like your point about how we bring a modern interpretation of beauty to old books. It's interesting how much broader (and attainable) nineteenth-century ideals of "beauty" were-- when I look at pictures of famous period beauties, I am struck by how ordinary they look. In an era without make-up, orthodontic treatment, airbrushing, or exposure to as wide a pool of people, women could look a lot more natural and still be considered beautiful. OK, maybe just as many girls back then felt less attractive than their neighbors with straighter teeth, but their culture did not involve the kind of artificial/commercial beauty that so many moderns struggle with. Probably that played a role as well in their reaction to literary beauties. Anna Mussmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11631139113615066986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8577968181719652880.post-57362910929159252812013-02-09T06:19:41.864-08:002013-02-09T06:19:41.864-08:00Wow! I love that!! So true and I hadn't thoug...Wow! I love that!! So true and I hadn't thought of it in that way. What you've said reminds me of a Fr. Mike homily where he talks about how afraid or unwilling we sometimes are to embrace change and transformation, "we're just fine the way we are, thanks but, I'm fine" is the mentality. So perhaps this stems from that as well. Thanks!!Jess Ferrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06220022324362170276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8577968181719652880.post-3686919289470277142013-02-07T20:12:14.235-08:002013-02-07T20:12:14.235-08:00Perhaps another reason people 'turn' on vi...Perhaps another reason people 'turn' on virtuous characters is because purity, truth, goodness, etc. cause us to come face to face with our impurity, the ugliness of sin within us. We are then forced to choose how we will respond- either flee from this thing that causes us to feel shame, or run to it, cling to it, and be transformed by it. Anytime we are confronted with holiness/something holy, isn't the 'normal' reaction to feel even a bit shame, recognizing our unholiness, seeing the 'unclean' in ourself? Perhaps this is what is happening here. The unfortunate thing is, when this happens, instead of running the other way or putting up walls to 'defend' or justify our unworthy state, we are meant to wait.... and then Holiness and Truth and Beauty and Goodness Himself will reach out and touch us with the hope we need to raise our downcast eyes and see what we are meant to become!! * IrwinSong *https://www.blogger.com/profile/08056395877057474536noreply@blogger.com