Okay guys look, there isn't some anti-freckle agenda here, it's just a reflection of the beauty standards of the time. In the past, people considered freckles to be
"unsightly blemishes that needed to be banished from the complexion." They were just obsessed (which is an understaintment) with having "flawless" skin🤷 The story's setting seems to be in the mideves, so the author probably chose to focus the story around the freckles. In today's society freckles are seen as pretty, and even desirable. In a way, the author is able to show how ridiculous beauty standards are; in both showing how beauty standards depending on time and place can be very different, and how something others deem "ugly" may be attractive to someone else
"unsightly blemishes that needed to be banished from the complexion." They were just obsessed (which is an understaintment) with having "flawless" skin🤷 The story's setting seems to be in the mideves, so the author probably chose to focus the story around the freckles. In today's society freckles are seen as pretty, and even desirable. In a way, the author is able to show how ridiculous beauty standards are; in both showing how beauty standards depending on time and place can be very different, and how something others deem "ugly" may be attractive to someone else
