Beauty and the Beast

Earlier texts, including the master texts of the film Beauty and the Beast, were intended for an older audience. Madame de Beaumont’s tale was written in the period of enlightenment during the salon tradition. During this time people were educated and enjoyed reading. However, today Beauty and the Beast is enjoyed by everyone. Disney built a bridge between the audience of children and adults. Creating family-friendly media, Disney’s…

of Merida. I also remember throwing a Beauty and the Beast themed birthday party when I turned 7! Have you outgrown your Disney Princess obsession? Well maybe you have have, but What the Box lets…

stories blanketed the careful, moral instruction. Marie Le Prince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast,” for example, is excellent at modelling many of Locke’s points on education. Although Locke is often more focused on the upbringing of a “gentlemen’s son” in particular, he goes on to say that he has also written some “general views in reference to the main end and aims in education” (Locke 6). “Beauty and the Beast,” in this regard, runs parallel to Locke’s original thoughts, despite that it…

the tiger, running freely and being independent. In the Tiger’s Bride, Beauty is a lamb, but she must learn to run with the tiger. In the tiger’s bride, beauty starts as an innocent girl who is consumed with pleasing her father and doing whatever benefits him. “[He] lost me at a game of cards”. Her father is a gambler and he only cares about the money. He loses his innocent daughter while he is playing a game against the beast and that is the first part where she starts to transform. She starts…

a cottage, but most of the story is at the beast’s mansion. Beauty was the biggest main character she had two sisters and three brothers, her two sisters were really spoiled and didn’t think of anybody but themselves. When Beauties dad went traveling both her sisters asked for a dress, but all beauty wanted was a rose. As her father is traveling he comes across a castle that had a beautiful garden with lots of roses. Eventually the beast gets mad at father for picking a rose and threatens to…

Go! Be a Beast" is an article by Marina Warner. The article was a very interesting one which supports my argument. She starts of by explaining that in the 17th and 18th centuries stories did not go into detail when describing the beast because people had to fear being eaten by animals (417). She goes on to say how different this is to the present were the beast doesn’t even have to transform to be loved by Belle. She gives examples of television shows and modern versions of the story in which…

Beauty is more passive in which her body is more frail against the Beast when put up against one another. This establishes how the gender relates to the body because Beauty is kept alone, and relies on others to do things for her, such as obtaining a white rose. In comparison to the Beast, his body is larger in stature that illustrate a more masculine gender. This is especially seen against through…

Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont, and the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. While the tale is considered one of the first tales to transcend female stereotypes, there are a still a lot gender roles to be considered in both versions. In the original tale, the Beast is kind and thoughtful. He was not turned into a beast for being ungrateful and selfish, like in the Disney version. The gender role here is different in that in the original the Beast is a victim, but in the Disney version he is…

Fairy-tale Sleeping Beauty where the princess [Princess Aurora] fell into deep slumber due to a curse and the only way for her curse to be cured is, apparently, by a kiss of her true love, which in this case, somehow happens to be the son of some king [Prince Phillip]. In the article, ‘Mum asks school to take Sleeping Beauty off curriculum’, Sarah Hall protested that it, “promotes unacceptable behavior, which shouldn’t be read by young children… the specific issue in the Sleeping Beauty story is…

personality are similar to that of the Beast from Beauty and The Beast. Jervis’s and the Beast’s change of personality are very similar because both of their lives are altered due to an infatuation with a woman. Jervis obsesses with both the thought of Alice and his lust of control and he lets it take over…