Ultimately, this tale’s moral is to emphasize the importance of the beauty within someone; however, the Beast is not a correct representation of beauty. He emotionally manipulative, with all his conditions and rules, yet he is presented as a good person. Beauty is so selfless that she will put everyone’s needs before her own. However, in current society women are encouraged to act more independent in relationships. One particularly jarring moment is when the Beast completely manipulates Beauty in telling her “poor Beast will die” if she leaves. After allowing her to leave she comes back late and is full of grief and guilt. The lesson we can extract about relationships from this is that it is acceptable to be with a man who acts in such a controlling way. This romanticizes mentally unstable men, as well as relationships, that our society today would deem
Ultimately, this tale’s moral is to emphasize the importance of the beauty within someone; however, the Beast is not a correct representation of beauty. He emotionally manipulative, with all his conditions and rules, yet he is presented as a good person. Beauty is so selfless that she will put everyone’s needs before her own. However, in current society women are encouraged to act more independent in relationships. One particularly jarring moment is when the Beast completely manipulates Beauty in telling her “poor Beast will die” if she leaves. After allowing her to leave she comes back late and is full of grief and guilt. The lesson we can extract about relationships from this is that it is acceptable to be with a man who acts in such a controlling way. This romanticizes mentally unstable men, as well as relationships, that our society today would deem