Beauty and the Beast

a mother, or a home-maker. They are there to support their husbands, calm them when they are angry, and are there for them whenever needed; you rarely ever see a woman go to work in any of these films. This being said, in the beginning of Beauty and the Beast, Belle is walking down the street when Gaston runs into her, taking her book and throwing it into the mud, he tells Belle, “It’s not right for a woman to read, then she’ll start getting ideas… thinking.” So apparently women are not…

“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast’, that a thing must be loved before it is lovable” -G.K. Chesterton Growing up, we are accustomed to the famous phrase "Once upon a time", identifying ourselves with the heroine who triumphed over her evil stepmother and magically acquired the beautiful dress to enchant the charming prince. However, in this adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Angela Carter delves into psychic transformation, liberating her female characters from conventional…

Today, the two of the most notable versions of the story of the Beauty and the Beast are Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (1946) and the Disney animation Beauty and the Beast (1991). They are based on a French tale regarding a woman who becomes in love with a beast. Both films have their similarities and differences, but they were made for different audiences. Jean Cocteau’s film stars Jean Marais as the Beast and Josette Day as Beauty. It is recognized as a classic to French cinema and was…

The Courtship of Mr. Lyon and The Bloody Chamber are both based on fairy tales written by Angela Carter. Both of these stories are thought to be inspired by author Charles Perrault’s writings Beauty and the Beast and also Bluebeard. Both fairy tales have similar plots, the usual “good feeling” plots, where a girl is on a mission to find her true love and encounters many men not fit for her along the way and also other trials and tribulations to eventually get to that one knight in shining armor…

elapsed while living in the castle, Beauty wishes to see her family and take care of them in time of crisis since she found out from the Beast (“Beauty”). Her sister was to soon marry the wrong man. In addition, her father became ill. Because Beast accepts this, Beast presents Beauty with a rose to keep with her for one week so he knows that she will come back (“Beauty”). If she arrives back any later than that, Beast will die just as the rose will (“Beauty”). In this instance, the rose…

According to the book The Evolution of Beauty and the Beast, Mary Bisbee states, that In 1697, fairy tales existed first by oral tradition, then by the coined phrase in France, and Madame D’Aulnoy used the term in her collection to discuss issues of the day (Bisbee 17). Fairy tales are simply outrageous children’s short stories about dragons and fairies. However, some fairy tales teaching morality to people, particularly women and children. According to her book “The Classic Fairy Tales,”…

reboot of the classic Beauty and the Beast movie. The first time that we saw the beauty of Emma Watson was several years ago in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Because of that, fans are starting to like Emma Watson a lot. She has been present in all of the Harry Potter series, and the fans are really loving her for good. How much more if she's going to play as Belle of the Beauty and the Beast. If you've watched the classic cartoon version of the Beauty and the Beast, it's an interesting…

Since the beast is seen as a monstrous beast, you would think that it would be impossible for anyone to fall in love with him. For this reason, Gaston is brought up in the movie as the complete opposite of the beast. “The fact that Disney creates this “charming” character as a “bad guy” and casts a “horrible ugly beast” as the “good guy” (who Belle even states is “no prince charming”) utterly goes against the stereotype, replacing it instead with the message that it’s not what a person has on…

The Marquis, as he removes his jacket, asks for the keys, finds the bloodstain on the key to the forbidden room, rebukes the girl for her transgression, imprints her forehead with a heart-shaped bloodstain from the key and pronounces her death sentence—Decapitation. He orders her to take bath, put on her white dress and the red choker, and wait in the music room for his telephone call. As she reaches the music room, she finds that though all the servants were given a holiday by the Marquis, the…

the themes are as they pertain to the fairytale by Charles Perrault’s, French version of Beauty and the Beast and the 1946 film by director Jean Cocteau’s, La Belle et la Bete. I will cover the use of magic in both the film and the fairytale. I will discuss the social-culture time period in which each was completed. The theme of both the fairytale by Charles Perrault’s, French version of Beauty and the Beast and the 1946 film by director Jean Cocteau’s, La Belle et la Bete shows us that…