That Which We Call Beast

by Shiloh Grace

A Beauty and the Beast retelling. Rose is determined to marry a man who loves her. But when financial ruin falls upon her family she has no other choice but to marry Lord Ashworth, a baron whom she has never met. Few have seen the man and rumor has it that he is deformed. But when she arrives at his castle for their union, Rose finds that he is nothing at all like she had imagined.

14. part ii

Jul. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet. 40
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'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself though, not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part 45
Belonging to a man. O! be some other name:
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes 50
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Scene II. Lines 37 - 53.