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Why does it feel adequate that good actors and actions are represented with Beauty, and bad actors and actions are paired with Ugly?

My theory (and I am correct about it) is that good actions promote Life, and it is life, with its structuring of knowledge, that most of the time appears as beautiful. While, on the other hand, the Bad promotes death, and what comes with death? A lack of saturation, dullness, fatness, decomposition, all chaotic, unstructured, aesthetic elements. So, Good leads to life leads to beauty, therefore in our brains Beauty fits the Good; Bad leads to death leads to chaos and dullness, therefore in our brains Ugly fits the Bad.

I think this general theory is the core of the explanation, but there are other interesting questions.

Why do we like it nonetheless that sometimes our villains are represented with Beauty as well? I think some villains are represented with beauty, and fittingly so, when they're themselves intelligent and cunning, so they're full of life and structure and plans, even if they have a bad mission. I think these sort of questions can find their answers, and never really damage the general rule I've outlined, so I don't want to dwell on them.

I've linked Beauty and Good. Where does Truth appear? I've found that a well understood truth or subject has the same characteristics as Beauty, some symmetry, a little asymmetry, contrast, and harmony between the parts of the system and the parts in relation to the whole. Wouldn't you say the Contents of a book of knowledge, and the ordering, the chaptering, is always best achieved when following the rules of Beauty?

When you want to understand something, to organize it well, to make it succinct and powerful, you cannot help but make it beautiful. Making something understandable is making something beautiful. I think this is how beauty is linked to truth, if want to understand something--and knowledge is might, and might promotes your life--you must have that thing be beautiful, conceptually plain and harmonious in your mind.

So my complete understanding of the problem is thus: Acquiring knowledge requires to take it in its most powerful form, which is the beautiful (compact, harmonious) aesthetic form, *using* that knowledge means to *also* deploy it in the beautiful aesthetic form (flowers and trees develop very beautifully for the most part). This duality is important, this is why Beauty appears to be both the result of promoting life, and the means to promote life. Beauty as found in truth is what allows for the best acquisition of knowledge; Beauty as found in Life is the result of the best deployment of knowledge to acquire might and win the promotion of your life.

I think two statements can be made following this analysis:
The Good follows Truth and leads to Beauty.
The Good follows Beauty and leads to Truth.

In sum, The Good (as the promotion of Life) follows Beauty to find Truth, and Truth, as to act towards the Good, develops in Beauty.