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    because in the original whenever a kid grew up he would kill them because unlike him they had to grow up because they couldn't be kids forever. In beauty and the beast unlike the movie and she was a only child she had sisters that was jealous of her new life with the beast so they tried to make her stay home instead of returning just so that the beast may eat her. Even villains were meaner in the originals then in the kid versions like in snow white instead of the just the head for proof she…

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    and Jeanne-Marie LePrince De Beaumont's versions of Beauty and the Beast, we see that the orthodoxy of society is withheld in one and not in the other. In De Beaumont's conservative version, Beauty, the perfect little girl, chooses to accept the beast for his character, not so much his looks, and then they live happily ever after. This acceptance of the traditional, "don't judge a book by its cover", along with the Beast staying the role of a beast, and an accepting father, helps to show that…

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    is as critical as she actually turns out to be but I just find it suspicious that she is knocking these classic, very popular tales that Disney makes. The second thing that really jumps out at me is that one paragraph after she bashes the beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid is when she finally gets to her trip to the movies and she states that “even before the title sequence, however, I started to shudder.” At this point, I am just confused. This lady hasn’t even got to the movie and…

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    Beauty by Robin McKinley is a retelling of the story, Beauty & The Beast. Beauty is a nickname Honour was given when she was younger and now finds herself unsuitable for the name. However, she believes her everlasting courage makes up for her absence of beauty. When Beauty’s father returns home with a tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the promise he made to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, in order to save her father. I would give Robin McKinley…

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    The Little Mermaid,Pocahontas,Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast are Disney legends. Legends that are best recalled by musical pieces, including passionate and in depth lyrics. Alan Menken's played a crucial role in the Disney Renaissance in the 1990’s.He not only produced over multimillion dollar musical hits, but also contributed to the idea of letting the music guide viewers with emotions and understanding a character's action.Therefore, the most influential musician is Alan Menken. Alan…

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    In the film Beauty and the Beast the main characters in the film are Belle and the Beast. The home of the Beast is enchanted with some sort of magic that aids the objects to move. But, before this occurs, what causes her to lead this fate is a rose. A rose could be seen as a motif in this film, yet it is not one of the motifs seen in the other fairy tales in the course. An additional motif in the film is the magic powers in the castle of the Beast and the magic powers the Beast has. Even…

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    Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s Beauty and a Beast, both Jane and Beauty face the challenges of looking beyond the superficial to find true love, respectively. In Beauty and a Beast, Jeanne-Marie authors minimal conversation between the Beast and Beauty throughout the story. In doing so, the Beast is characterized with low intellect: a “monster”, “terrible”, and “ugly.” Conversely, Beaumont characterizes Beauty as “extremely handsome,” “better than others,” and also…

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    Beauty and the Beast is one of the classic stories told in many different tales but the most popular version was created by Disney. Belle, a girl who lives in a provincial town, who chooses to be the prisoner of a beast to save her father. In the beginning Belle is afraid of the beast and wants nothing to do with him, but she learn to see the beauty within him. The beast, a prince who has a spell casted on him must learn to love before his twenty first birthday or he will be cursed to be a beast…

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    Disney’s best films, Beauty and the Beast is based on a French fairy tale about a beautiful woman who falls in love with a beast. This film sends the message that “it’s what is inside that really matters”. Jeanne Marie- Leprince de Beaumont wrote the timeless tale of “The Beauty and the beast” which has been embraced by the hearts of many for decades. The moral of the original tale by Beaumont, written in 1757, is that it doesn’t matter what occurs on the outside, because inner beauty is more…

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    “Beauty and the Beast” written by Monica Patrick is a funny and light humored poem making reference to the popular Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast. The poem talks about how a couple in love see each other differently than one who is not in a relationship. Although the man or woman in this poem does not seem hurt, when someone exclaims, “Why that’s Beauty and the Beast!” it would typically hurt to hear that type of comment. However, one can infer that Patrick is trying to tell us that true…

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