标题: 《The Beast's Embrace 》作者： - Suzy McKee Charnas【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-10-14 09:41 标题: 《The Beast's Embrace 》作者： - Suzy McKee Charnas【EPUB】 THE BEASTS EMBRACE Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com 1 THE BEAST'S EMBRACE By Suzy McKee Charnas Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com THE BEASTS EMBRACE Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com 2 It's the end of "Beauty and the Beast," any version you like, and the Beast, saved from the evil spell that has kept him in this hideous form, turns back into the handsome prince he rightfully is; and in the audience, we sigh, we are sorry, we are sad -- we liked the Beast better. Christine Daae refuses the deformed but brilliant Phantom and runs away with her Raoul, a younger son of the nobility -- a happy ending, so why are our eyes wet, why are we full of regret for the road she has not taken, the suitor she has not chosen? What is it about the lover who is a monster that we find so appealing? For starters, he's a successful monster, he has qualities. Despite his enemies, those who hate him just for being unlike them, he survives, he even flourishes. So he must be very clever, and he's certainly strong enough to whip any antagonist, alert enough to outmaneuver any enemy, powerful enough to protect those he loves from any danger, and in the service of his love he is braver than lions. He must be brave anyway, or he wouldn't be able to resist the easy out, of suicide or surrender. The ogre who loves us is a guardian angel whom no one could slip past or tempt from his self-chosen