Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a famous celebrity, or perhaps a superhero or villain from a movie? You could have thousands of fans if you were a celebrity, or you could have a lot of “haters” if you were a villain. Just as an example, you could be Ryan Gosling or Captain Hook. Both people have certain identities that we associate them with. Ryan Gosling is a good-looking actor who has played leading roles in many movies, and Captain Hook is the nemesis of Peter Pan who tries to kill him. But we only really know Ryan Gosling and Captain Hook from this one perspective. We do not know which, if any, roles Ryan Gosling plays are a good representation of who he actually is, or if Captain Hook is evil all the way through. Odds
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In this fairy tale, the identity of the Beast is compromised against his will, whereas in The Little Red Riding-Hood, Wolfe changed his outward appearance on purpose. This change in identity resulted in the Beast becoming a recluse. In the particular version of the fairy tale which I read, Beauty willingly gave up her freedom in order to release her father, who was a captive of the Beast. With time, Beauty came to see the Beast as more than just the monster that he looked like on the outside. She voiced this realization when she said, “Among mankind […], there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart” (Opie 190). This is probably the most important line in the entire fairy tale, because it accurately sums up what the story is trying to convey; an ugly exterior does not imply an equally ugly interior. In this case, the ending was a happy one, in contrast to The Little Red Riding-Hood, where Beauty and the Beast fall in love with each other for who they are on the inside and not just who they are on the outside. This comes to show that a fairy tale does not have to have a drastic ending in order to get a point
In this fairy tale, the identity of the Beast is compromised against his will, whereas in The Little Red Riding-Hood, Wolfe changed his outward appearance on purpose. This change in identity resulted in the Beast becoming a recluse. In the particular version of the fairy tale which I read, Beauty willingly gave up her freedom in order to release her father, who was a captive of the Beast. With time, Beauty came to see the Beast as more than just the monster that he looked like on the outside. She voiced this realization when she said, “Among mankind […], there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart” (Opie 190). This is probably the most important line in the entire fairy tale, because it accurately sums up what the story is trying to convey; an ugly exterior does not imply an equally ugly interior. In this case, the ending was a happy one, in contrast to The Little Red Riding-Hood, where Beauty and the Beast fall in love with each other for who they are on the inside and not just who they are on the outside. This comes to show that a fairy tale does not have to have a drastic ending in order to get a point