Beauty and the Beast

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.

Love, one of the best parts of life, provokes positive thoughts from most people. Every story involves some aspect of love, no matter the genre. From a young age, life teaches that love acts as something so special and precious. After all, love can break any curse. On the contrary, love can actually be seen as destructive and extremely negative.

Finding the similarities and differences between two things using just the brain and memories can be difficult sometimes. Using the internet, books, and movies can be extremely beneficial when it comes to comparing and contrasting. Something good to compare and contrast , that is very popular, would be Beauty and The Beast, as there is an original book, a cartoon, and a remake movie. What is your favorite book that has a movie made about it?

Love is perhaps one of the most contested issues in the world. No one has a precise definition of what love really should look or feel like. Most people have resorted to use their own experiences in love to effectively derive its true meaning. Through these experiences, philosophers have argued that the definition of love varies greatly depending on whether it was given by a man or a woman. This is however not the case. As proven by the narratives of Beauvoir and Sartre, the definitions of love derived from the experiences of both men and women are quite similar. Consequentially, Beauvoir’s account of the woman in love sheds important light on Sartre’s conflicting thought about love. By first highlighting the concepts of love as stated by Beauvoir, this text seeks to establish how Beauvoir’s account of love lays a vital foundation for Sartre’s.

“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.

The story of beauty and the beast is being told by two fairies and a rabbit. This created a double fourth wall for the audience. Beauty (Katherine Carr), and The Beast (Matt Carter) were oblivious of the fairies and their meddling. Not once did the characters in the tale of beauty and the beast break the fourth wall with the fairies or the audience. But, the fairies did continuously break the forth wall with the audience, asking our opinions and talking directly to members of the audience. A strange but, upbeat technique, I found it made the play more enjoyable.

“Just because something is beautiful doesn’t mean it’s good.” The two stories have many similarities two of which are, both of the fathers follow the orders of the beast by bringing their daughters to the beast. The other is, both of the curses could be broken by a girl confessing her love for the beast. The difference between the 2 stories is they both occur in different times. Beauty and the Beast is in medieval times and Beastly is in modern day. Beastly and Beauty and the Beastly both focus on true love, the inner self and choices.

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.

Love is greater than its linked sisters, because whilst faith and hope belong only to a creature, and are dependent and expectant of some good to come to themselves, and correspond to something which is in God in Christ, the love which springs from faith and hope not only corresponds to, but resembles, that from which it comes and by which it lives.

Walt Disney Pictures' 1991 film Beauty and the Beast is a well-loved piece of American culture. The movie tells the tale of an unlikely love story with two polar-opposite protagonists, who fall in love despite many complications. Their story is helped along by the use of music, which supports theme and mood, throughout the film. The title song, "Beauty and the Beast" is a polarizing moment in the story that solidifies the fact that the two characters are falling in love- or are they?

It 's easy to make a list of things that are, and are not, manifestations of Love. A billion words have been written about it. But it 's never been explained worth a damned. So this is my feeble attempt to explain, not the substance of Love, for it is an ethereal thing, lighter than a wisp of smoke, yet crushingly cruel when it is imprisoned and unable to come out and play.

A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise. The fame of her beauty was so great that strangers from neighboring countries came in crowds to enjoy the sight, and looked on her with amazement, paying her that homage which is due only to Venus herself. In fact Venus found her altars deserted, while men turned their devotion to this young virgin. As she passed along, the people sang her praises, and strewed her way with chaplets and flowers.

The version of Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne- Marie LePrince De Beaumont tells a compelling story of a young women making sacrifices for her family, and finding love through these sacrifices. Beauty and the Beast is a fairytale meant to educate young children on the importance of family, and that life is full of making sacrifices; while also teaching children to appreciate what is on the inside, and not just on the outside. The protagonist of the tale is Beauty. Beauty is a caring, family- oriented, strong, loyal girl whom everyone in the town adores. She kept to herself, but would do anything for anyone, especially her father. With many opportunities to get married, Beauty stayed loyal to her father, until she realized she was in love with Beast. When the family lot their fortune men still proposed to Beauty, even though she did not have money. Beauty politely turned them down; “She told them that she could not bring herself to abandon her poor father in his distress and that she would go with him to the country in order to comfort him and help him with his work.” (32)

Once upon a time in a land far away a beautiful young princess lived in a shining towering castle. All though the princess had everything her heart desired, the princess was spoiled, selfish, and unkind. One day on a cold, bitter winters night a beggar had arrived at the castle and offered the princess a single rose in return for shelter. The princess repulsed by the beggar's jagged appearance turned the old beggar away. The beggar warned the princess not to be deceived by appearance for beauty comes within. Still the princess turned the beggar away and when she did, the old man’s ugly jagged appearance had washed away only to reveal a handsome young sorcerer. The princess then begged the handsome young sorcerer to forgive her but it had been too late for the sorcerer saw that the princess had no love in her heart. So the sorcerer as a punishment had turned the princess into a hideous beast and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. The princess ashamed of her beastly form stayed hidden in her castle. The rose the sorcerer had brought was an enchanted rose that would bloom until her 21st birthday, which in that time she would have to learn to truly love another and earn his love in return before the last pedal falls or else she would stay a beast forever.

When you think of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast, what do you remember? In the typical plot of Beauty and the Beast, Beauty aids the Beast in his transformation from beast to man. The focus of the typical storyline is the battle between innate traits and characteristics accepted by society. However, in Angela Carter’s post-modern rendition, Tiger’s Bride, not only does she shift the focus to explore the relationship between love and self-acceptance, but she also changes the plot in efforts to make Beauty undergo a transformation. Through Carter’s tone, exploration of power dynamics, and use of imagery, the story follows the progression of the love and self-acceptance that influences Beauty’s metamorphosis.