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= __**Beauty and the Beast **__ =

= The Original Beauty and the Beast =

Beauty and The Beast was written by Madame Gabrielle- Suzanne Barbot de Gallon de Villeneuve in 1740. Her story was about Beauty, who was one of twelve children, her stepfather os a merchant, her real father being the King of the Happy Isles. The Queen is both Beauty's mother and the Dream Fairy sister. Her story talked about many enforced marriages that women had to summit to, and her Beauty shows how many women are to marry men more beastly than the beast.

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=The Grimm Brothers=



//Summary -// A father of three daughters goes on a journey far away. On his way home from his journey he gets lost and finds himself desperate for a shelter and food. He finds a castle, inside he finds dinner and a place to sleep, but no host is to be found. He wakes up the next day to finish his journey home, on the way out he sees a bush of roses. He remembered promising his youngest, and prettiest daughter that he would give her a rose upon his return. As he reached for the rose a huge beast came jumping out. The beast tells the father he won't take his life if he promises to bring back his youngest daughter to live with him forever in the castle. The daughter agrees, so her father will not die. Beauty (the mans daughter) starts to grow a friendship with the Beast. He wants to marry her but she refuses at first, she is too sad she knows her dad is dying because he is very ill. She asks the Beast if she can visit her father one more time before he dies, he lets her go only if she comes back in seven days. The Beauty goes to see her father only to realize he is only sick because he misses his daughter so much. Beauty stays there for more than seven days and has a bad dream the Beast is sick. She goes to the castle and realizes she is in love with the Beast and tells him she will marry him. The Beast suddenly turns into a young handsome man, a spell once put on him was now broken. Beauty and the Beast get married and live happily ever after.

//Moral -// The daughter realizes that its the beauty within that makes someone beautiful. Instead of living with him and making the matter worse, she gave him a chance and learned he was a gentle and kind beast. The real beauty of the handsome young man that was in the inside of the beast came out and showed in the outside of the ugly beast. I think this story has a great moral for kids. Like they say, " don't always judge a book by it's cover."

= Similar Tales Across Cultures =

in the nineteenth century there was 68 different printed editions listed on the Index of Fairy tales Adrne Thompson lists 179 tales from different countries with a similar theme to Beauty and the Beast - usually three daughters, the youngest being the most kind and pure. her sisters are displaying undesirable traits of human kind. Beauty often has no name but is referred as the youngest daughter. There never seems to be a mother, removing the possible conflict another would have allowing her daughter to live with a monster and allowing a closer relationship with the father who is in most cases wealthy. The Beast is never appealing in appearance but he is rich and powerful. At one point Beauty is separated from her Beaut and he gets ill. Beauty's remorse saves him and he transforms to a handsome man.

The Princess and The Pig - Turkey


The father is a king who gets the best goods for the elder sisters but fails to find a gift for his youngest daughter, in this case fruit. However, he meets the Beast, a pig, when his carriage is stuck in mud. The pig is the only one able to set him loose, but only after extracting the promise that he be given the youngest daughter as his bride. Despite trying to trick the pig into accepting another, he eventually takes away the youngest daughter, who in her goodness accepts the lowly circumstances she is forced into. During her sleep her surroundings are transformed into incredible luxury and the pig into a handsome young man.

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Fragmented Paradoies

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= = =Disney and Mass Media =



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Disney Beauty and the Beast was released in 1991, Walt Disney changed things around in his version of the story. Belle went looking for her father and found him being held in the Beasts Mansion and made a deal to trade places with her father, to let him free. Howard Ashman come up with the idea of turning enchanted objects into living things. Belle realized that deep inside of the Beast there was something more. Switching him make to the prince he was.

when the film was released it made a big impression on media, public, and Hollywood. It became the forst animated movie to ever be nominated for Best Picture Academy Award.

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//Beauty and the Beast// opened at the Palace Theatre on April 18, 1994 and played on Broadway for over 13 years with 5,461 performances - finishing its run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and ultimately becoming the seventh longest-running musical in Broadway history. It is now Beauty and the Beast on tour and plays in all different areas.

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=Beastly:= On March 4th there was a new movie Beastly released that has a different take on Beauty and The Beast. In this story, a New York teen is transformed into a monster in order to find true love.

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=Beauty and the Geek=

Beauty and The Geek is a television show that was released in 2005. This is a show were attractive women who got by on their appearances, and intelligent men with limited social skills, who lived in a house together, learning from each others' weaknesses and strengths. It is not a dating show, but it shows how you should not judge a book by it cover. It also shows how there should be no categories in social groups.

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Psychological criticism
- the two sisters represent the sins of pride, jelousy, and greed - the inner nature of Beauty can be identified as hospitality, purity, courage, freedom, and sacrifice - the real meaning of the name Beauty instructs that the real value of women does not lie in her physical appearance but in her inner nature - Beauty's Independence spirit is the most important virtue to define her as the model of feminism

Gender Roles in Beauty and the Beast
The women in the tale play the role of innocent, helpless type while the men play the role of aggressive and charming. Belle's personality is very sweet, warm, and hearty. Her role in the tale is being the beautiful princess while the Beast plays the role of the "prince." He is monstrous, but has a gentle and kind heart.

** Themes **
The main theme of Beauty and the Beast is that you should not judge someone by the way they look, beauty lies within. You should not judge a book by its cover. The beast is ugly and monstrous, but he has a warm hearted personality that Belle falls in love with.