Why

Obsess over the Beauty and the Beast.

Beauty is kindling, placating, the taming, restraining and civilizing of the Beast.

Who serves / saves / submits to who?

Beauty as the illusion of spontaneous effortless virgin perfection conceived a priori by supreme intellect - the spark stolen by Prometheus.

Beast, the monstrous, humiliating, endless void - the entropy yawning abyss, the last resort of kings.

Ideas:

The Rumplestiltskin Witches

The Painter and the Werewolf Princess

Why does the sun burn? The rose bloom?

What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?

What makes the muskrat guard his musk?