The Beauty in the Portrait of a Lady

DOI

10.2991/sschd-16.2016.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Isabel, beauty, Mencius's aesthetics.

Abstract

The Portrait of a Lady (The Portrait for short) is one of James Henry's best stories, and its heroine, Isabel, is quite a controversial character for centuries. With Mencius' aesthetics theory, this paper is going to study Isabel's beauty in the eyes of readers from East Asia. The paper is divided into three parts, while the first part deals with Isabel's beauty in appearance, the second concentrates on Isabel's beauty in heart, and the third centers on Isabel's beauty with maturity. By the guide of this eastern aesthetics theory, the paper is able to find out that it is the heroine, Isabel's sincerity and goodness that give the perpetual beauty to herself as well as the novel.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yan Sun
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TI  - The Beauty in the Portrait of a Lady
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 169
EP  - 172
SN  - 2352-5398
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