https://glendalarke.com/2007/10/beauty-and-heroines/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:35:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://glendalarke.com/2007/10/beauty-and-heroines/#comment-23229 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:55:00 +0000 #comment-23229 I’m with you Glenda. Most beautiful men and women are feted, adored and coddled for most of their life and don’t learn the character building lessons that less than beautiful people experience.
Given a choice between an empty, spoilt beauty and another with the character of Keris, I would prefer the latter every time.
Besides, one of the things I like in a story is an underdog with character prevailing against the odds.

]]> https://glendalarke.com/2007/10/beauty-and-heroines/#comment-23228 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:10:00 +0000 #comment-23228 Hello Glenda. Well said, though I wished you elaborated more. Genes are not distributed fairly, and given the world’s obsession with beauty, plain janes are never popular choices for heroines. I loved Jane Eyre too, and for the record, am totally against beauty pageants.

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