Comparing Jeanne Marie Le Prince De Beaumont's Beauty And The Beast

What is our perception of the fairy tale, Beauty and The Beast? Some would determine the fairy tale about the imprisonment of a woman who over time, falls in love with a Beast. A feminist look into Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont’s Beauty and The Beast, portrays Beauty as strong and independent determining her own life choices. Through heroism, virtue, and indomitability, Beauty could be reflected as the 21st century woman. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont was a French writer who was born in 1711. As a young child her mother died and she grew to become an advocate for the education of women and the battles of inequalities. She married multiple times and was said to have a number of unofficial relationships. She believed in the importance of virtue and has once said “Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is kind of a miracle”. As a writer, she offered her audience options for improvement that were more practical, more personal, and more achievable than the more abstract theories of the philosophes and other intellectuals of her day. (www.academia.edu). In 1757, she wrote Beauty and the Beast which symbolized the importance of women and virtue. Similar to the …show more content…
His concern for Beauty and his offerings in his palace made Beast, not so beastly after all. He was passionate, loving, and compromising when it came to caring for her. As the male figure in this story, he was the one who needed her. The importance of options between Beast and Beauty is evident when he gives her the choice to marry him or not. He patiently waited for her as she left the palace to visit her father and decided to return a few days after Beast had asked her to. Although his threat of suicidal starvation seems a little coerced, he still did not force her to marry him. It was her choice to leave as well as her choice to