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Belle

 

 In my childhood, I was obsessed with fairy tales, especially Disney’s.  My favorite one is Belle from Beauty and the Beast.  She’s upgraded from any other princesses in a sense that she’s got intelligence.  Above all, while other princesses sit and wait for a handsome prince, Belle reads books, and stands the Beast’s unrefined, aggressive life.  Belle’s success, a happy marriage with a handsome prince, was not easily earned.  She really worked hard for the unexpected, and seems to have feminism in her mind. 

 

Yea, it is still hard to interpret what these mean:

Daddy?

That’s another kind of prison. 

It’s not the prince at all,

But my father

Drunkenly bent over my bed,

Circling the abyss like a shark,

My father thick upon me

Like some sleeping jellyfish.

 

Was the prince her dad?

Anyway, this stanza is so gloomy.

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