What comes to mind when you hear the word 'love?' Do you think of a person who loved you or someone you admired? We, as human beings, are made to love. We also distinguish love as familial, romantic and selfless love: also known as storge, eros and agape. As much as we want to love others, we hold high values in being loved by others. Humanity's great appreciation for love is so great that it is even depicted in fairy tales. The Little Mermaid is the story of a mermaid who trades her beautiful voice for human legs in order to be with her true love, Sleeping Beauty is the story of a prince who fights against the evil witch to save his true love a deep sleep , and Beauty and the Beast is about a young woman who falls in love with a Beast, purely because of his good virtue and character. Even the most influential book for humanity, the Bible, carries the message of love through the Gospel. God's love for human beings is manifested purely through the life of Jesus Christ: the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus. Could there be simple connections between the Gospel, fairy tales and humanity under the theme of love? Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie LePrince De Beaumont echoes the Evangelium by reflecting on unconditional, sacrificial and transformative love. Such love is demonstrated through Beauty's action, motivation, and relationships with others. First, unconditional love is depicted in Beauty's relationship with her two evil sisters. The two sisters are disliked by others because of their vanity and pride (De Beaumont 32). They "always insisted that they would never marry unless they found a duke or, at the very least, an earl", but when men asked Beauty in her hand for marriage, she pol..... . middle of paper .... .. loved more than loving others. So we are never satisfied. The only way for a human being to be fully satisfied with love is to be loved with absolute completeness. The whole picture of love is God and He is perfect. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, was perfect and full of love, which is why He died on the cross for the sins of others. The ultimate completeness of love died for our sins and mine. Christ did not die to take advantage of human beings. He is perfect in himself; it does not need humanity to realize its completeness. Thus, Christ died on the cross simply because he loves humanity. He loves you and me so much that he gave his life. What greater love is there than the love of Jesus Christ? As much as humans long to be loved, why not satisfy their hunger for love through the ultimate representation of love, Jesus Christ??
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