Stereotypes In The Story Of Beauty And The Beast

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.

As exposed in Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, female characters are determined to be of importance and rewarded only when they comply to the standards of a patriarchal society. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast, is merely written as guide for

Fairytales are a great for the imagination; they demonstrate both good and evil. They drive one toward a good moral compass. It is through watching and reading these tales that we can build the mental framework that guides us in our daily lives. The fairytale I chose to write on is Beauty and the Beast (Chbosky & Spiliotopoulos, 2017). In this paper I hope to demonstrate how good and evil is represented, how this can relate to The Sacred Quest (Cunningham & Kelsay, 2013), and the moral concepts that may be found within the story.

Overall, the emphasis that fairy tales place on physical appearance can be very detrimental to a child (particularly a girl’s) development and ideas of reality. To add, fairy tales, although perhaps unintentionally, depict that attractiveness determines who is good and who is evil. The protagonist is often the princess, who is described as the prettiest in the land. The antagonist on the other hand is often less attractive and more than likely labeled ugly (Schussler). Because fairy tales often depict good conquering evil and evil succumbing to its immorality, this therefore shows the reader that ugly people are punished. This also can influence a girl’s self-esteem, considering that the created sense of beauty is impossible, thus they may feel inferior (Danish). Grauerholz hypothesizes that “[t]hese powerful messages that say women need to be beautiful may compel some women to seek beauty at the expense of other pursuits, such as careers or education” (Grauerholz). The exaggerated emphasis on beauty has potential to be a very limiting factor for young girls. However, the stereotypical beautiful princess is not the only gender stereotype that plagues women in the tales.

He has three sons and three daughters. His youngest daughter, nicknamed "Beauty" is as lovely on the outside as on the inside: The good merchant…knew very well that Beauty outshone her sisters, in her person as well as her mind, and admired her humility and industry, but above all her humility and patience; for her sisters not only left her all the work of the house to do, but insulted her every moment. In both versions, the Beast is aggressive at the beginning with the beauty's father, however, in this story Beast does not growl at the girl as he does in the film. In fact, he is humble about his intelligence and tries not to intrude upon Beauty.

This foregrounds potential of narcissism within Beauty. The Beast allows Beauty to go back to London to be with her father under the condition that she must return before winter is over. While in London, she, “[sends] him flowers, white roses in return for the ones he had given her; and when she left the florist, she experienced a sudden sense of perfect freedom, as if she had jus escaped from an unknown danger” (48). With this gesture, Beauty feels all her debts are settled and she no longer has an obligation to the Beast. When she puts on her robe of fur, she becomes her own beast, showing a parallel between her and the Beast.

Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Ariel are all names almost every young female can recall. These are just a few of Disney’s most memorable characters, the “Disney princesses” which are idolized by young girls everywhere. These princesses are portrayed to be strong willed, optimistic, and hardworking women who overcome various hardships throughout their life. Talk about being the perfect role models for little girls everywhere- but are they really? Although they may seem to have admirable qualities, by the end of these Disney movies, each princess receives their happy ending with their “prince charming” at their side. This concludes that happiness is obtained only by finding your “prince charming”. A princess’ “happily ever after”, that is repeated in these iconic Disney movies, distorts what true happiness is and could be for girls around the world. This perceived reality promoted by Disney then becomes engraved in our young girls’ minds through ways that are much like propaganda in the political arena. Propaganda is a form of language commonly used to manipulate intended audiences. In Disney’s case, their intended audience consists of young girls around the world. These Disney films display methods of propaganda, such as doublespeak (Lutz) and the two-extremes fallacy (Cross), which result in our young girls believing in a false reality. There needs to be attention brought about this flawed perception of a sole happiness that is continuously depicted by Disney and shared through ways of propaganda, as it is damaging the minds of our young girls- the future contributors of our society.

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.

This is a tale of self-discovery, personal growth and the fact that Belle will not allow The Beast to objectify her. In the traditional story, Beauty and the Beast, we are forced to see Beauty and Beast as conflicting characters; Beauty is feminine, innocent, gentle and beautiful, while Beast is masculine, experienced, wild and ugly. The original story suggests that the characters were polar opposites and had irreconcilable differences. Carter's characters are less defined. In the story of Beauty and the

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

Disney’s Coercive Portray of Man’s Role Towards Woman by The Character of Beast Jeanne-Marie’s Beauty and the Beast and Disney’s popular counterpart both claim for a more profound value than superficial attractiveness through Belle’s romantic story. This is reflected by the character of Beast, which both stories depict as an ugly creature that needs to love and find love by other ways than what appear beautiful to sight. However, Disney represent this character significantly different than in the classic tale, making an ideological difference in the story and certainly transmitting opposite views about the masculine role in a couple relationship. In this Essay, I argue that Disney’s changes to the original character of the Beast in Jeanne-Marie’s tale, demonstrate an oppressive, interested and unequal relation with Belle that may motivate to have this view, and expectation, of men with woman in a relationship; which contrast with Jeanne-Marie’s kind Beast character. This

Young girls are often stuck in a world of make believe, they are fed fairytales, dream up unimaginable views of reality and believe everyone will find their prince charming. This unrealistic perspective is formed through their experiences with different fairytales. As G.K. Chesterton tells the fairytale are a realistic world for children, “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten”. Fairytales lead these girls to believe that in order to find true love there is some sort of intense journey one must go on. This idea of a journey for love has created a specific ideology for what love is and how to achieve it. In the text Beauty and the Beast by Madame Le Prince

Rola Abu Sarah Mrs. Shada Shahin Engl 227 B First Draft 9 May 2015 Images of Beauty “ And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts”. This quote by Emma Donoghue combines between the original fairytale by Beaumont “The Beauty and the Beast” and the revisited one “The Tiger's Bride” by Angela Carter.

All over the world Feminism is a current topic of concern and there are very few advocates who are currently fighting for gender equality. In the media men and women are attempting to use their voices to fight for equal rights and get the message across to all generations. In this paper, I will be analyzing the movie Beauty and the Beast (2017) by drawing upon the feminist theory, which will demonstrate how the main female character, Belle challenges the modern-day system of inequality and the socially constructed gender roles. I will do so by examining why Emma Watson was chosen as the leading actress, how Belle is different than the other women in her town, the modifications from the original movie, and how Belle ultimately gets to decide her destiny. I will also consider why some people may view the film as anti-feminist, which will allow for me to understand a different perspective. It is my thesis that socially constructed gender identities are negatively presented in popular culture, however actors and actresses are attempting to use their influence to make an impact and move towards equality.

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