Step 3- Quotations

#1 “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

#2 Close your eyes and see the beauty.  ~Author Unknown 
I think that this quotation portrays inner beauty because it shows that if you close your eyes you will see the true beauty of a person in what they say and do, rather than what they look like. If you "close you eyes" then your thoughts on them won't be influenced by their outer beauty, rather what really counts, their inner beauty and the person they are. By doing this you will truly "see the beauty."

#3 Beauty: The combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind.
I think that this quote shows the side of outer beauty. It shows that by having a "combination of all the qualites" which I think is outer apperance qualities, will delight the senses and please the mind-have people think you are beautiful. I think it is portraying that outer beauty will be more valuble because it pleases the senses and mind so people will think more greatly of you. This could be a reason why people are judged by their outer beauty rather than their inner beauty because of how the outer beauty affects the person who sees it.

#4 Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.     - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Step 2- Ancient Myth

Cupid and Psyche

Once upon a time there was a king with three daughters. They were all beautiful, but by far the most beautiful was the youngest, Psyche. She was so beautiful that people began to neglect the worship of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. Venus was very jealous, and asked her son Cupid (the boy with the arrows) to make Psyche fall in love with a horrible monster. When he saw how beautiful she was, Cupid dropped the arrow meant for her and pricked himself, and fell in love with her.
Despite her great beauty no-one wanted to marry Psyche. Her parents consulted an oracle, and were told that she was destined to marry a monster, and they were to take her to the top of a mountain and leave her there. The west wind took her and wafted her away to a palace, where she was waited on by invisible servants. When night came her new husband visited her, and told her that he would always visit her by night and she must never try to see him. 
Although her invisible husband was kind and gentle with her, and the invisible servants attended to her every desire, Psyche grew homesick. She persuaded her husband to allow her sisters to visit her. When they saw how she lived they became very jealous and talked Psyche into peeking at her husband, saying that he was a monster who was fattening her up to be eaten and that her only chance of safety was to kill him. Psyche took a lamp and a knife, but when she saw her beautiful husband, Cupid, she was so surprised she dripped some hot wax onto his shoulder, waking him. He took in the situation at a glance and immediately left Psyche and the magnificent palace she had been living in disappeared in a puff of smoke.


Summary:
        In the story, Psyche is the most beautiful out of her three sisters, she is so beautiful that people begin worshiping her instead of Venus, the goddesses of love and beauty. Venus is angry so sends Cupid to shoot her with an arrow so that she will fall in love with a monster, but Cupid is shocked by her beauty and drops the arrow on himself and falls in love with her. Psyche is taken away to a palace where Cupid is her husband and she has invisible servants. She is only allowed to meet with Cupid at night when she can't see him and she learns that he is very kind and gentle. Psyche become homesick though, and Cupid allows for her sisters to come and visit her. When her sisters come they convince her to peek at her husband during the day and when she does she is so shocked by his beauty that she drops hot wax on him, which wakes him up and he runs away never to be seen by her again.

Connection:
      The story of Cupid and Psyche displays beauty in a very unique and creative way. In the beginning when Psyche was only allowed to see her husband at night this represents inner beauty because she learns that he is kind and gentle and Psyche isn't really concerned about his outer appearance. When she sneaks a look at Cupid this represents outer beauty because when she learns how beautiful he is and I think her perception of him changes and I think she would think differently after she saw his appearance. This relates to beauty because I think that this shows that inner beauty and outer beauty go hand in hand, some may think one is more important than the other while some may think the opposite. Someones outer appearance may change your thoughts on their inner beauty and vice-versa.