Reading Notes: Pygmalion & The Lion in Love

Pygmalion is a very interesting story to me. This is the first story I have read so far that the writing style really appealed to me. I felt like the author was very poetic but also I could easily understand it and I felt like the story flowed better. 

I liked how much the author focused on Pygmalion making and decorating his statue, and how beautiful the statue was and how obsessed he was. I have heard this story before when I was little, and I would daydream about making my own "Dream Guy". But now as an adult I can see the flaws in this story, and if I were to rewrite it I would make it more modern, about a guy who falls in love with a girl from afar, maybe from social media, and then mentally glorifies her into exactly what he thinks he wants, so that he feels she is his "Dream Girl" without ever having met her, and no other girl around him will live up to her. Eventually, he gets the chance to finally meet her after months/years of obsessing and comes to realize she is just a normal girl, and all the qualities he assigned to her in his head are not how she is at all in real life. 



I also liked the story of The Lion in Love from Aesop's Fables. It reminds me of how people are willing to do crazy things for love, even if it requires sacrificing yourself. I think I would change this story so that it had a little bit of a happier ending. Also I don't think I would use a lion, maybe just a regular guy! I like the concept of love taming the wild, and I think there are plenty of ways I could incorporate that theme into my own future story. 

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