Belle's Sacrifice: A Narrative Fiction

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.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s traditional fairy tale La Belle et La Bête (1756) has been adapted numerous times for screen, stage, prose, and television over the years. One of the modern adaptations of this tale is the movie Beastly (2011) which was directed by Daniel Barnz. The movie is set in New York and is about a selfish, shallow high school freshman who is transformed into a 'beast' by a witch, in order to learn his lesson and find true love. For the viewer “adaptation as adaptation is unavoidably a kind of intertextuality if the receiver is acquainted with the adapted text” (Hutcheon, p. 21). However,

Peering into the treasure chest, a small gasp slipped out of Belle’s mouth as she began to see the truth about her friends. Laying on a crimson cloth was a book titled “Cinderella”. Delighted to find one of her favorite fairy tales, Belle sat under a tree and began to read. Her delight soon turned to disgust as she realized it was not the fairy tale she loved. Overcome at the gruesome, gory details of this version, Belle quickly slammed the

The Beauty and the Beast starts with a lively music in the castle which immediately set us into action. A castle full of expensive housewares and beautiful ladies wearing white gowns dancing to the music represent perfection. The ball is interrupted by a knock from an unexpected beggar who offered the insensitive prince a rose for shelter. The loud thunderclap and the way the chandelier lights were blown off by the wind intensified the scene. When he refuses, the beggar transformed into an enchantress and changed him into a hideous beast and his servants into housewares. The camera angle which showed the shadow figure of the prince turning to a beast was amazingly done. She casts a spell on the rose and it would only be broken if he could learn to love another and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell. On the other hand, Belle starts the film in a small lively village which implies peacefulness and security. Belle is a simple, creative girl wanting to leave her monotonous village life to explore new things and go to an adventure. This came true when her horse Philippe went home anxiously without Maurice, her father. The way the horse neighed repeatedly implied that something is wrong. Belle, without hesitation, stormed off to the castle where her father was imprisoned and took his place as

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

The story of "Beauty and the Beast" by De Beaumont appropriately teaches the 18th century values of rationality, proper etiquette, and self-sacrifice. De Beaumont story begins by telling the misfortunes of a merchant and his six kids but puts emphasis on the merchant's youngest child affectionately called "Little Beauty" (De Beaumont 200) due to her immense beauty and particularly good nature who treated everyone fairly. When the merchant tries to obtain a rose for Little Beauty he is sentenced to death by the Beast but is given three months to live. Beauty sacrifices herself for her father and the Beast in return allows Beauty to live and each night has dinner with Beauty while she politely allows him to give her company at dinner despite

The story As Old As Time is about The Beauty and the Beast but in a more twisted version. The main characters of this book is Belle, the Beast, and Maurice who is Belle's father. In the beginning of this book Belle’s mother Rosalind left Belle and Maurice when Belle was little. Everyone told Belle that she disappeared but Rosalind actually went away and left. There was a lost kingdom that Belle’s mom went to and cursed everything in that castle. Rosalind was a Charmante which means she has power. In the Castle, she turned every servant into an object, for example Mrs. Pott’s, the teacup, was actually a living person. Her son Chip was actually a five year old boy named Charles. The objects would never age and they would forever be in that castle.

She tells him that she only wishes to see Maurice again, just for a moment. The Beast takes her to the West Wing, where earlier in the show she discovered the withering rose, and gives her a magic mirror, explaining that it will allow her to see anything she might desire to see. Belle asks if she can see her father and the magic mirror reveals that Maurice is lost and sick in the forest. The Beast, having fallen in love with Belle, releases her to rescue her father and also gives her the mirror so that she may look back and remember him. Belle hurries off, finds Maurice and takes him back to the village, where a mob gathers to take him to an asylum, a plan arranged by Gaston in a very enthusiastic musical number. Gaston offers to have Maurice spared if Belle agrees to marry him but she still refuses. Belle uses the magic mirror to show the Beast to the villagers, who become frightened at his hideous visage. Belle assures them that the Beast is kind and gentle, and that he's her friend. Out of jealousy and anger, Gaston tells the mob that Belle is as crazy as her father. Belle disagrees and calls him the real beast for wanting to kill him. She tells him off that she sees him as nothing more than a sexist, narcissistic, rude, obnoxious and selfish jerk. Insulted, Gaston rallies the villagers to storm the castle and "kill the beast," convincing them that he is dangerous to the entire

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.

In Short, in the motion picture Beauty and the Beast (2017), there is the Beast who is cursed by an enchantress at the beginning of the movie because he had no love in his heart and she turned him into a hideous Beast. The only way that the Beast can become human again is if he falls in love and revives the same love in return before the last Rose petal drops. The character

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

Madame Le Prince De Beaumont wrote one of the first versions of Beauty and the Beast in 1745. She was a teacher and her intent was to teach her students moral lessons. She felt so strongly in these lessons that she turned them into a fairy tale to help her students grasp them. The story starts off with a merchant who had three daughters and three sons. The two older girls were very arrogant because they were rich. The sisters would not marry because they wanted to be wed to someone who was very rich. Beauty was the youngest and she had many suitors, but she refused to marry because she felt she was too young and she wanted to stay with her father longer. The merchant loses his wealth and is forced to move to the country. The two older sisters were devastated and lost all of their suitors. Beauty on the other hand was so nice that her suitors still wanted to marry her. A while after their move to the country, the merchant got a note that said his stuff had arrived. This would make them rich again. ?When the sisters got word of this they begged

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)

When she came back upstairs I was very eager to show her it. Okay that wasn’t right but she loved it and went downstairs to show the witch. I went through the hole to see if she liked it. I figured that witch of a lady would care but, no they were just being mean and cruel. They ripped her dress and everything the dress was ruined and I hated them. Then I saw the sparkling lights and that was when I went outside. A strange lady appeared. Her cute dress and the magic wand that’s what made it all happen. So she turned me and the rest of the mice turned into horses. Then she gave Cinderella a pretty dress and shoes she looked like a true princess. We were off after the whole deal about the magic wears off at midnight. She had plenty of time to be there. As we neared the ball I heard Cinderella get more and more excited

Beauty and the Beast is a classic French fairytale adapted by Disney into an award winning animated movie in 1991 and a live action movie in 2017. This is a tale of a young French girl, Belle, who dreams of a world outside of her small village. All the people in her village find the young girl beautiful but strange because she differs from the other young girls in the village who are willing to marry and settle down into their safe provincial lives. Belle has other lofty aspirations for her life and spends most of her time reading books of adventure, faraway places and true love. At home she cares for her eccentric father who spends his time making inventions that usually do not work. Belle has no desire to stay in the small village nor marry the arrogant Gaston who believes he and Belle are destined to be married since she is the prettiest young maiden and he is the most attractive male in the village. Soon Belle’s fate crosses paths with the Beast who lives in the castle cursed for the last ten years. On one fateful night Belle’s father happens upon the castle seeking refuge from the wolves that attacked him and his horse while lost in the woods. In a desperate attempt to save her father’s life, Belle becomes a prisoner of the Beast, so her father can be freed. As the tale progresses the relationship between Belle and the Beast deepens and in the end true love wins again with the fairytale ending of Belle falling in love with the hideous Beast.