Beauty and the Beast

The film Beauty and The Beast, is well known throughout America, ninety-nine percent of people will have very good memory of the Disney fable. Beauty and The Beast has been apart of our culture for many years. It is story that has been passed down and will continue to be passed for years to come. There is more to this story than a girl falling in love with a beast. There are a lot of different ways to analyze Beauty and the beast. Some people might feel uncomfortable talking about them. The Disney version of Beauty and the Beast is the best-known version of the story. A majority of the population has either seen the movie or heard about it. The main character, Belle, is a young girl who lives in a small village. She lived with her father…

despair, the use of archetypes in “Beauty and the Beast”, written in 1756, helps to portray the theme and enables it to be applicable to real life. The tale is about a beautiful woman named Beauty who is forced to live with a Beast and eventually learns to see past his appearance and learn to love him. Thus, in the story, the theme portrays that there is more to a person than their outward appearance. This is exemplified with the Beast, who is included in multiple archetypes and is usually…

fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, originated from La Belle et la Bete; which was written by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, in 1740. In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, a French novelist, revised the fairy tale to shorten the length and be appropriate for children. In Madame’s original version of Beauty and the Beast, was drawn-out, being over 300 pages long. Jeanne made various changes to La Belle et la Bete; she took out the sexuality component and numerous subplots. Despite…

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a classic fairytale where a young woman falls in love when she least expects it. Characters overcome struggles, rediscover themselves, and learn about love. As the narrative unfolds, the sounds and lighting styles add richness to the text, which affects the audience’s interaction with the text. The dialogue in the film is a literal sound that tells the story (Silverblatt et al., 2009). The characters in the text have varying speech patterns based on their…

The Mask of the Beast Once upon a time starts the story of a fairytale and happily ever after closes the ending. Fairytales show young girls falling for a guy that is usually a prince or rich guy after facing some obstacles that prevent them from being together. The Beauty and the Beast by Beaumont doesn’t stray from the typical fairytale outline, but is there more to the happily ever after then meets the eye? Almost all fairytales end with a happily ever after, but is it just a mask to hide…

Beauty and the Beast is a French folktale that has been translated by many to fit the culture in which it is being read. Beauty and the Beast is amongst the most popular told story in the western world. It has been rewritten over and over again mostly to adapt to the culture of the person whom is writing or speaking. In 1946, La Belle et la Bête was made into a French romantic/ fantasy film which included adaptations from the original fairytale. Then, in the 1990’s, Beauty and the Beast was…

with the beast, the inescapable revelation of seeing that which is good in the grotesque. Though the elements of this tale extend all the way back to the ancient story of Cupid and Psyche, not taking on many of the contemporary and recognizable aspects of the story till the 18th Century with Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's “La Belle et la Bete” which then was shortened and rewritten by Jean-Marie Leprince de Beaumont; the latter version becoming a much more popular and…

iconic films, Beauty and the Beast, one of the characters suffers from a psychological disorder that baffles even the most trained psychologists, Stockholm Syndrome. Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which victims of captivity or hostage situations…

The famous fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast originated from the French story, La Belle et la Bete, written by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve in 1740. In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, a French novelist, shortened the fairy tale and revised it to be appropriate for children. Gabrielle-Suzanne's original version of Beauty and the Beast was over 300 pages and included the history of the characters, several dream sequences, and complex subplots, which Jeanne-Marie removed. Despite…

"Beauty and the beast" key to survival Children’s books are important to help a child grow and satisfy a child’s imagination; it is Folk and Fairy tales that grants children of all ages the chance to gain confidence through each tale, as well as in the world that revolves around them. Bruno Bettelheim argues through his article "The struggle for meaning" that generally most folk and fairy tales are known to shape a child's life through maturity ; therefore, without stories like "Beauty and…