Characterization Of Beauty: An Analysis Of Madame De Beaumont's 'Beastly'

The fairytale “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne-Marie LePrince De Beaumont was produced in France in 1756. The story is about a wealthy merchant with six children, three boys and three girls. With the story’s primary focus on the girls, we learn that the youngest of the daughters, named Beauty, was admired for her kindness and well behaved manners. Due to Beauty being the town favorite, her sisters grew jealous and hated her. When Beauty’s father falls in debt with a Beast, her father sends her off to live with the Beast. In the end, Beauty gets to know the Beast and accepts to be his wife. Although, Beauty and the Beast have their ‘happily ever after’, social and economic complications hindered their relationship.

“One of the most courageous decisions youĺl ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” This quote said by Brigitte Nicole, holds true for anyone, as any living being will eventually let go of its pain and find happiness in life.In the excerpt from Black Beauty: An Autobiography of A Horse by Anna Sewell, a horse is illustrating its change in feelings while being broken in and wearing unpleasant gear. Distinctive change is also observed in the selection, The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, where the main character describes her favor in one horse as opposed to another. By evaluating the excerpts of Black Beauty and Georges and the Jewels, it is evident that both texts vividly show development in character

There are many different versions of Beauty and the Beast; It is a magical story of unconditional love. It teaches children that beauty is much more then skin deep. In this assignment I am to compare two, Beauty and the Beast stories; one by the renowned, famous Grimm Brothers as presented by Disney. The other called Beastly by the modern author Alex Flinn. The two versions have many similarities but still quite a few differences.

Madame Beaumont’s telling of “Beauty and the Beast” is an extraordinary piece of literature, not only for its traditional fantastic fairy tale magic, but also for its rich underlying themes. One theme of interest is that of names, or lack thereof. Although “Beauty and the Beast” is a short piece, the reader meets many characters, eight in total. However, these characters are given no real names nor physical descriptions, referred to only by qualities they possess or a basic description of who they are. Each character has a specific part to play and a lack of names and faces allows the reader a clear picture of what each character or group is meant to represent, without any distractions of details.

“Beauty and The Beast” is a classic well known romantic Disney movie that depicts the gender role of men and women in society. The film is based upon a smart young female protagonist named Belle who is imprisoned by a self-centered young prince after he has been turned into a beast. They both learn to love each other in the end and throughout the film there are several examples shown portraying the roles of gender. In the film the main characters Gaston and the Beast portray themselves as rude, conceited and more important than the woman even though the main character Belle is a woman whom is considered odd, yet smart, and unrelated to most women in society.

Mrs Beast is the penultimate poem of the collection. It helps to sum up Duffy’s aim of The World’s Wife: to highlight the female voice by looking at human history. The entire poem is a retelling of the fable of ‘The Beauty and the Beast’ by Jean-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Beauty sees past the Beast's outward appearance, bringing the feminist rejection of objectification to the fore. However, Beaumont's portrayal of Beauty as a submissive, obedient daughter to her father and servant to the Beast is anything but feminist. Duffy re-works the tale to explore her thoughts about feminism and feminist

The portrayal of ethics in Beauty and the Beast “Beauty and the Beast” are one of the most interesting tales that has one of the best endings. The tale is about the relationship between Beauty and the Beast. The suspense of the tale where the Beast turns into a prince at the end makes the tale even more interesting. The author Leprince De Beaumont, did a great job in keeping up the suspense until Beauty confessed her love towards the Beast to show that the physical appearance plays no role when a person is in love with someone. Instead, personality and the caring nature for each other is what matters most.

With this comes the basic plot of both versions. In the beginning, the Prince in the Disney version, and the teenage boy, Kyle, in Beastly are both very arrogant, cruel people. As a result, a spell is cast over them; they are both transformed into ugly beasts. In order to break the spell, they must find true love. In both stories, the beast is angry, and he shuts himself away from the world; until one day when a beautiful girl happens upon him. In the Disney version, Belle gives herself as a prisoner in place of her father. In Beastly, the girl, Lindy, is given up by her father because he is not fit to care for her. As the story goes, the original resentment from Belle and Lindy is replaced by a love for the kind-hearted people behind the face of a

Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont wrote her well-known classic “Beauty and the Beast” in 1757 (Beaumont 26). This tale follows the basic outline of all beloved fairy tales: the heroine is mistreated but in the end lives happily ever after with a handsome prince. Although this version is the first, it is not the most well-known. That title would go to the Disney adaptations. There is one distinct difference between these two versions. In Beaumont’s tale, the Beast is kind to Beauty. Although Beauty recognizes the Beast’s unattractive outer appearance, she also recognizes his kindness, as displayed in this conversation between the two at the beginning of the story: “‘Tell me, don’t you find me very ugly?’ ‘That is true,’ said Beauty, ‘for I cannot tell a lie, but I believe you are very good natured’” (Beaumont 38). Beauty’s answer shows that she is not only beautiful but kind as well. She is trapped in the castle by the Beast, yet she still seeks to find the good qualities in her captor. Through Beauty's kindness towards the Beast, she was able to break the spell and live happily ever after. In Beaumont's version of “Beauty and the Beast,” the Beast is compassionate. Unlike the sisters' husbands, he is ugly on the outside, but handsome on the inside. The lesson taught in this fairy tale is kindness is more important than outward appearances.

The plotline of Beauty and the Beast begins with the short backstory of an arrogant and uncaring young prince. On a stormy evening, the young man would not admit a strange, ugly beggar woman to stay the night in his castle,

The story of the Beauty and the Beast is well known amongst all ages. Though the story they portray in the Disney version is much different than what they have portrayed it in France. La Belle et la Bête has been produced twice, once in 1946 and again in 2014. These two movies tell the same story but in very different ways. The perception of this story has changed between the different time periods.

Both Beasts are willing to do and give anything for beauty and the girl to keep them happy. Although Beast kept beauty hostage, he is gentleman enough to give her, her own space if she does not want anything to do with him: “you alone are mistress here; you need only bid me gone, if my presence is troublesome, and I will immediately withdraw” (LePrince de Beaumont 6). Beast being kind to Beauty is important because the goal is for her to want to stay with him forever. Since he shows compassion and

Beastly is about a selfish and prideful man named Kyle and a very kind heart woman named Lindy. Kyle had everything, he is perfect, except his attitude. After cruelly humiliating a witch in disguised named Kendra, he was cursed to teach him a lesson. The only way to break the curse is him learning how to love someone more than he loves himself and for that person to feel the same way as him. That is where Lindy walks in. She thought and showed him kindness, that he fell for her, and she did as well. He

Often considered to be one of Disney’s greatest animation films, Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 musical romance, which tells the tale of Prince Adam and Belle. The story starts with the Prince being cursed to come a Beast by an Enchantress, who saw his arrogance and inability to love. The only way for him to break the spell would be to love and earn love in return, before the last petal of an enchanted rose falls. Ten years later, an old man, Maurice, lost in the nearby forest, seeks shelter in the Beast’s castle. The Beast imprisons him until his daughter, the beautiful bookworm Belle, who dreams of adventure and travel, finds him and offers to take his place and remain in the castle forever. The relationship between the Beast and Belle

Beauty and the Beast was an amazing musical, many say it was much better than the movie. Just like the movie. It starts off in a faraway land, with the Young Prince who lived in a shining castled. The prince was spoiled, selfish and unkind. An old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the Prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away. The old woman warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is to be found within. And when he sent her away again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The Prince tried to apologise, but it was too late. As punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there. The Rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose. If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return before the last petal fell, the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a Beast for all time.