Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin
I read your message from 25.03.2021 22:56

 AH> The moral of the tale could be, in effect, "Don't judge a book by
 AH> its cover." But whether "Beauty" is seen there as the name of a
 AH> person or "beauty" in the general sense or both, the article would
 AH> still be omitted in English....

 AH> Other titles in which the definite article has been omitted include
 AH> WAR AND PEACE, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, and CANADIAN HISTORY FOR
 AH> DUMMIES. Yet we employ articles when we speak of these ideas in

I even heard that articles in titles are not necessary in English at all. :) So it easily could be "Beaty and Beast", isn't it?

 AH> specific terms. Which war is the author referring to in WAR AND
 AH> PEACE? The War of 1812... meaning the one which took place in
 AH> Eurasia, not the one which took place in North America at roughly
 AH> the same time. We do the same with "beauty" when we add details
 AH> best explained in definitions #2, #3, etc. We might say e.g. "The
 AH> beauty of it is that I can walk to work" or "[this woman] was quite
 AH> a beauty years ago".

Another thing is that the in the Disney's cartoon the girl was called "Belle", not "Beauty". It is legal to say that "Belle was a beauty". ;) Or it could be "Belle and the beast". In Russia we consider the cartoon name as, probably, "The beautiful girl and the beast".

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2021

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