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   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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