Write a one to one-and-a-half (1 – 1.5) page paper with a clear thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion in which you discuss how the lives of some of the individual characters (choose one or two) bear out Morrison’s statement about beauty as a destructive idea.

From Spring: [Polly] went to the movies instead. There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to anotherphysical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap (122).
Morrison, through her narrator, states that romantic love and physical beauty are “probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.” To what degree are these two concepts generated from within or imposed upon them by society? Where do the characters first encounter ideas of romantic love and beautyideas which will eventually torture and exclude them? What positive visions of beauty and love does the novel offer? *
Write a one to one-and-a-half (1 – 1.5) page paper with a clear thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion in which you discuss how the lives of some of the individual characters (choose one or two) bear out Morrison’s statement about beauty as a destructive idea.
NOTE: In using quotes, do not use long quotes for short papers–the similarity checker should not go above 20-22%–if it does, go back and shorten the quote or include more analysis.

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