Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont wrote her well-known classic “Beauty and the Beast” in 1757 (Beaumont 26). This tale follows the basic outline of all beloved fairy tales: the heroine is mistreated but in the end lives happily ever after with a handsome prince. Although this version is the first, it is not the most well-known. That title would go to the Disney adaptations. There is one distinct difference between these two versions. In Beaumont’s tale, the Beast is kind to Beauty. Although Beauty recognizes the Beast’s unattractive outer appearance, she also recognizes his kindness, as displayed in this conversation between the two at the beginning of the story: “‘Tell me, don’t you find me very ugly?’ ‘That is true,’ said Beauty, ‘for I cannot tell a lie, but I believe you are very good natured’” (Beaumont 38). Beauty’s answer shows that she is not only beautiful but kind as well. She is trapped in the castle by the Beast, yet she still seeks to find the good qualities in her captor. Through Beauty's kindness towards the Beast, she was able to break the spell and live happily ever after. In Beaumont's version of “Beauty and the Beast,” the Beast is compassionate. Unlike the sisters' husbands, he is ugly on the outside, but handsome on the inside. The lesson taught in this fairy tale is kindness is more important than outward appearances.
Every night, the Beast would ask Beauty to marry him, and every night Beauty would refuse. She even said, “it is too bad he is so ugly,
The fairytale “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne-Marie LePrince De Beaumont was produced in France in 1756. The story is about a wealthy merchant with six children, three boys and three girls. With the story’s primary focus on the girls, we learn that the youngest of the daughters, named Beauty, was admired for her kindness and well behaved manners. Due to Beauty being the town favorite, her sisters grew jealous and hated her. When Beauty’s father falls in debt with a Beast, her father sends her off to live with the Beast. In the end, Beauty gets to know the Beast and accepts to be his wife. Although, Beauty and the Beast have their ‘happily ever after’, social and economic complications hindered their relationship.
Bruno Bettelheim, he analyzed fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychology, which is represented in his works of The Uses of Enchantment. Beaumont’s story of Beauty and the Beast is where the first discovery of Beauty’s problem was identified as the Oedipal complex. The Oedipal complex is a child’s desire to have a sexual relation with the parent of the opposite sex, but it is repressed deep in the mind. Beauty in Beauty and the Beast has a special bond of affection with her father; there is the problem that arises within this complex that what if she were to be stuck at the stage of development and never outgrow it. Within the fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Beaumont there is the representation of the period where she begins to transfer the affection to someone else. An analysis of Bettelheim’s theory of the Oedipal complex reveals psychological problems of growing up in the written fairy tale and Disney adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.
The author, Robin Mc Kinley wrote this novel in Beauty's point of view. She is the one character that leads the reader through the tale. We see the Beast through her eyes and see her grow from young girl to
A merchant has many children, the youngest called Beauty. Once they were rich, but one day they lose almost everything. Beauty is the only one to be cheerful. Two years later, one of the merchant’s boats come into port. Before he goes to it, he obtains requests from all his children, except Beauty, about what they wanted. When pressed, she asks her father to bring her a rose. There were no funds from the ship, so the merchant heads home. Along the way, he stops at a castle where he finds a rose. After he picks the rose, a beast appears and tells him that he needed to bring one of his daughters to the castle. The merchant returns home and tells his children what happened and Beauty volunteers to go. At the castle, she dreams of a prince who asks for her help. Every day she wanders around the empty castle, and every evening she dines with the beast. When he leaves each night he asks Beauty, “Do you love me? Will you marry me” (Lang)? And every night, Beauty tells him no and fall asleep and dreams about her prince. One night Beauty asks if she could be with her family for a short time. In response to her request, Beast said, “I cannot refuse you anything you ask, even though it should cost me my life… Good night, Beauty. Fear nothing, sleep peacefully, and before long you shall see your father once more” (Lang). When Beauty rises, she was in her father’s home. Beauty is slow to return to the castle and when she finally did, she found the beast on the brink of death. Beauty finally agreed to marry Beast, and as soon as she does, the beast transforms into her prince and two women appear. One was the queen and the other a fairy. Beauty and her prince married the next day
In 1740, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve wrote the first official version of the fairytale, “Beauty and the Beast”, which was translated from her original French title “La Belle et la Beta”. In reality, Villeneuve’s version is the original fairytale, although, many people believe that either Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s version would be the authentic one, and others that also believe that there had been similar versions prior to Villeneuve’s writing. “Beauty and the Beast” is a short fairytale about a prince who is given a curse that turned him into a Beast because of how he had rejected an old, unattractive fairy’s proposal to marry her. She then was so furious towards the rejection that she set that curse on him. Then, in the fairytale, there is a girl, Beauty, who happens to be the youngest daughter of a merchant who is set to give up his life after he had pulled a rose from the Beast’s garden to deliver to Beauty, but instead Beauty decided to take his place and she was set to live the rest of her life in the castle with the Beast. After some time, Beauty agrees to marry the Beast which then causes the curse to no longer exist, turning him back into prince he used to be. This fairytale has also been turned into a film a few times, the most famously know is the 1991 Disney animated version that was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, starring Paige O’Hara, as Belle (Beauty), and Robby Benson, as the Beast. In both the 1991 film by Trousdale and the original fairytale story by Villeneuve, there are a few differences from the meaning of the rose, to characters being added or taken away, to the actual spell that is cursed on the prince. Villeneuve uses personification, love, and feministic traits to demonstrate how Beauty chose to stay with the Beast on her own recognizance.
In the story, the merchant stoll a rose from the Beast. Then the Beast said he will either kill the merchant, or have the merchant bring his daughter to the Beast. The merchant then agreed to give the Beast his daughter, Beauty. While living with the Beast, Beauty discovered he wasn’t as bad is she thought. Beauty’s perspective changed when she went to live with the beast.
At the beginning of the story, Beauty is defined through objectifying feminine attributes. In the first line, Beauty is looking “outside her kitchen window ”(Carter 137), her being in the kitchen represents conformity to feminine stereotypes. She is then described as being so pale that “you would have thought she was made of all snow” (carter 137). The whiteness of the snow symbolizes her purity. She represents a desire to conform to feminine sterotypes through her desire for the white rose Like Beauty, the beast is not free from conditional gender roles either. Being a lion-like animal, he is large and
There are many different versions of Beauty and the Beast; It is a magical story of unconditional love. It teaches children that beauty is much more then skin deep. In this assignment I am to compare two, Beauty and the Beast stories; one by the renowned, famous Grimm Brothers as presented by Disney. The other called Beastly by the modern author Alex Flinn. The two versions have many similarities but still quite a few differences.
“Beauty and The Beast” is a classic well known romantic Disney movie that depicts the gender role of men and women in society. The film is based upon a smart young female protagonist named Belle who is imprisoned by a self-centered young prince after he has been turned into a beast. They both learn to love each other in the end and throughout the film there are several examples shown portraying the roles of gender. In the film the main characters Gaston and the Beast portray themselves as rude, conceited and more important than the woman even though the main character Belle is a woman whom is considered odd, yet smart, and unrelated to most women in society.
Belle was kind to the Beast, and then she found her prince. It took courage to look into the eyes of someone that took away everything and see the good.
Lyon”. Carter retells the well-known fairytale “Beauty and the Beast,” but her version is far from “classic.” It is a tale of self-discovery and rejection of female objectification. In the beginning of Carter’s retelling of the classic fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast,” Beauty is seen as a penniless, helpless girl, whom the rich, powerful and world-weary Beast forces to live in his house. When her father uses her as payment for his debt to the Beast she becomes an object. However, she rapidly becomes the more active, experienced, and adventurous character. Throughout the story, Beauty proves herself to be more than just a traditional fairy tale heroine, but in the beginning, she conforms to the paradigm. Just like many of Carter’s heroines, she must start within to be able to then break free from the restrictions and assumptions of patriarchal society. In the words of da Silva, “The daughter is conscious of her annihilation in the patriarchal society but she doesn’t have autonomy to overcome it.” Even though Beauty finds enjoyment in reading fairy tales while living with the Beast, it is as though despite living in a modern world with telephones and cars, Beauty wants to believe in the conventional “happily ever after.” By comparing Beauty to the immaculate snow upon which she gazes Carter emphasizes Beauty’s femininity, innocence, and virginity. By associating Beauty
In showing her acceptance, Beauty lets the beast know “you are very kind—so kind that I almost forgot you are so ugly” (Beaumont 26). Beauty said “It is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster” (Beaumont 26). Beauty finally accepted the beast when she realized how gentle and kind he was with her. The beast noticed Beauty’s soft heart and he felt her fear for him eventually disappear. When Beauty gives herself up to the beast to “prove her love for the best of fathers”, she is trying to gain acceptance from her sisters (Beaumont 24).
The story of the Beauty and the Beast is well known amongst all ages. Though the story they portray in the Disney version is much different than what they have portrayed it in France. La Belle et la Bête has been produced twice, once in 1946 and again in 2014. These two movies tell the same story but in very different ways. The perception of this story has changed between the different time periods.
Beauty’s role in beauty and the beast glorifies her as a sweet girl who can find light in any darkness. She prefers to move forward in life rather than sulk in misery. Being such a positive female character allows her to fall in love with a man who is not of the society standards of handsome, name Beast. She was more intent on focusing on what he had to offer as a person. Karen Rowe states in “Feminism and Fairy Tales” “such alluring fantasies gloss the heroine's inability to act self-assertively, total reliance on external rescues, willing bondage to father and prince, and her restriction to hearth and nursery” (Rowe). The heroine being beauty in this case, doesn't have opinions or rights because her character wasn't created to. Rowe believes that fairytales have paved the way for our expectations towards what women and men should be doing and what romance is. Rowe argues that “These "domestic fictions" reduce fairy tales to sentimental clichés, while they continue to glamorize a heroine's traditional yearning for romantic love which culminates in marriage” (Rowe). Beauty’s character found herself in these “sentimental cliches” with her
Both Beasts are willing to do and give anything for beauty and the girl to keep them happy. Although Beast kept beauty hostage, he is gentleman enough to give her, her own space if she does not want anything to do with him: “you alone are mistress here; you need only bid me gone, if my presence is troublesome, and I will immediately withdraw” (LePrince de Beaumont 6). Beast being kind to Beauty is important because the goal is for her to want to stay with him forever. Since he shows compassion and