The Indian The Tale of Tulisa and the Disney film the Beauty and the Beast both consist of a beautiful woman who ends up in a relationship with a king who attributes characteristics of wild beasts. Although these two stories are from entirely different cultures, they both have strikingly high amounts of similarities as well as differences. One similarity that is apparent between the two works is the misogynistic view of women implied in each story, some blunt and some hidden within screenplay. For instance, in The Tale of Tulisa, Tulisa is not allowed to decide for herself if she can marry or not and in the Beauty and the Beast Gaston, the overly manly man, exemplifies his dominance over women repeatedly throughout the story. In addition to this, the two stories also exemplify congruence through the main woman character within each respective account breaking the curse that was upon the king. On the contrary to these similarities, the two tales differ in the way that the marriages occur; One resulting from an arranged marriage and one stemming from love. In both the Tale of Tulisa and the Beauty and the Beast, the role and value of woman are portrayed as lesser in comparison of women. In The Tale of Tulisa, we are told that Tulisa responds to the beast’s request for marriage with the fact that “… only her father could decide;…”. This reveals that Tulisa was viewed as her father’s property rather than an individual, as she could only do what she wanted to do if her father
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.
Linda Seger's hero myth from her publication "Creating the Myth" is very thorough in the steps involved in creating a hero of a story. All ten steps are very common to a typical hero story. However, there are some gaps in her theory. An example of a story that does not fit Seger's theory is the Disney version of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. This popular cultural phenomenon has within it an atypical hero, one who pokes holes in Seger's hero myth theory. This atypical hero, simply named Beast, does not fit all ten of the steps in a typical hero story.
In the movie “Beauty and the Beast”, the role of a man and woman in an abusive relation is practically spelled out and strait from Disney’s female lead jar. Belle is kidnaped by the Beast and forced o live in the dungeon until her father is ripped away from her. During this time she is completely defenseless to the Beasts onslaught and often retreats within herself and rarely confronts him. Beast on the other hand, portraying an abusive male, does everything to a tee. He yells, bangs on doors, throws furniture, and even threatens starvation when Belle goes against him. Belle, being the kind and gentle female lead, looks past all his rage and finds he prince inside; highlighting the common problem in abusive relationships. The abused partner holding onto the hope that their abuser will change, that they will love them and show them the tenderness that used to be there. Women (could also be men) are supposed to take the abuse and wait it out, showing nothing but love while the abuser rampages and eventually, things will be just like the fairy tales.
Have you ever wondered the similarities and differences of Beauty and the Beast 18th Century and the Disney movie? For instance, in the story the rich merchant has 6 children and has 1 child in the movie. There are more differences than similarities. The merchant is rich in the story but then gets poor and is poor in the Disney movie. Throughout the story, the merchant had 6 children.
These roles of female characters are not only present in The Beauty and The Beast. Many other Disney films like Cinderella and Snow white exemplify the stereotypical
There are many differences between Disney's film Beauty and the Beast, and "Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont. The central focus of the plot is a kind-hearted "beauty" who is able to see beyond appearances and learn to love without consideration of good looks, but based on value from within. This is the same in both versions. In addition, in each version, the father innocently offends the Beast and is given a choice to pay for his offense, unless someone else will take his place.
Madame Leprince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast” and the Grimm brothers’ “The Frog King” are both fairy tales from the animal bridegroom category. Both stories tell the tale of a girl who encounters an animal or a beast who they push away at first, yet ends up becoming their husband. Through the attitude of the animal and the context of the situation the characters are in, the authors depict different types of animal bridegrooms. While both tales include princes cursed to take the form of an animal as the future groom, the one in “The Frog King” is arrogant, treats the girl badly, and is manipulative, whereas the one in “Beauty and the Beast” is kind, treats the girl like a princess, and is honest with her. Firstly, the frog in “The Frog King” is very arrogant when he repeatedly orders her to do things for him and pretends to be a king himself by asking her to “[l]ift [him] up beside [her] and then] push
Disney’s Coercive Portray of Man’s Role Towards Woman by The Character of Beast Jeanne-Marie’s Beauty and the Beast and Disney’s popular counterpart both claim for a more profound value than superficial attractiveness through Belle’s romantic story. This is reflected by the character of Beast, which both stories depict as an ugly creature that needs to love and find love by other ways than what appear beautiful to sight. However, Disney represent this character significantly different than in the classic tale, making an ideological difference in the story and certainly transmitting opposite views about the masculine role in a couple relationship. In this Essay, I argue that Disney’s changes to the original character of the Beast in Jeanne-Marie’s tale, demonstrate an oppressive, interested and unequal relation with Belle that may motivate to have this view, and expectation, of men with woman in a relationship; which contrast with Jeanne-Marie’s kind Beast character. This
70% of ladies admitted that they would ignore or avoid a potential love interest because of the way they looked (Buchanan). We live in a world where superficial beauty is an important advantage especially when choosing a partner in life. People try their hardest to look attractive and gone are the days when inner beauty are more accounted for. What if you have the opportunity to choose between an understanding, kind but not good-looking guy and an inconsiderate, selfish but stunningly appealing man? The 2017 Disney movie Beauty and the Beast is an epic hero myth which shows us that real love and beauty are not only about physical appearance but looking beyond what you can see and seeing one’s character within.
In 1740, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve wrote the first official version of the fairytale, “Beauty and the Beast”, which was translated from her original French title “La Belle et la Beta”. In reality, Villeneuve’s version is the original fairytale, although, many people believe that either Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s version would be the authentic one, and others that also believe that there had been similar versions prior to Villeneuve’s writing. “Beauty and the Beast” is a short fairytale about a prince who is given a curse that turned him into a Beast because of how he had rejected an old, unattractive fairy’s proposal to marry her. She then was so furious towards the rejection that she set that curse on him. Then, in the fairytale, there is a girl, Beauty, who happens to be the youngest daughter of a merchant who is set to give up his life after he had pulled a rose from the Beast’s garden to deliver to Beauty, but instead Beauty decided to take his place and she was set to live the rest of her life in the castle with the Beast. After some time, Beauty agrees to marry the Beast which then causes the curse to no longer exist, turning him back into prince he used to be. This fairytale has also been turned into a film a few times, the most famously know is the 1991 Disney animated version that was directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, starring Paige O’Hara, as Belle (Beauty), and Robby Benson, as the Beast. In both the 1991 film by Trousdale and the original fairytale story by Villeneuve, there are a few differences from the meaning of the rose, to characters being added or taken away, to the actual spell that is cursed on the prince. Villeneuve uses personification, love, and feministic traits to demonstrate how Beauty chose to stay with the Beast on her own recognizance.
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.
“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.
In What Ways Are Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent Alike? When a story is converted into a film, it is fascinating to observe the similarities between the two, and see how each is portrayed as a different source of media. In the Grimm Brother’s original story, Sleeping Beauty, and the newly remade Disney movie, Maleficent, there are many similarities filled with great detail. Both media has the kingdom gathering, the granting of wishes, and the powerful message of true love's kiss that defeats all odds, and all moments, whether in the short story, or action-packed film, are done exceptionally well. One of the first similarities between the story and film is where the story line gets started, and then transitions into the unravelling events that follow.
Lyon”. Carter retells the well-known fairytale “Beauty and the Beast,” but her version is far from “classic.” It is a tale of self-discovery and rejection of female objectification. In the beginning of Carter’s retelling of the classic fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast,” Beauty is seen as a penniless, helpless girl, whom the rich, powerful and world-weary Beast forces to live in his house. When her father uses her as payment for his debt to the Beast she becomes an object. However, she rapidly becomes the more active, experienced, and adventurous character. Throughout the story, Beauty proves herself to be more than just a traditional fairy tale heroine, but in the beginning, she conforms to the paradigm. Just like many of Carter’s heroines, she must start within to be able to then break free from the restrictions and assumptions of patriarchal society. In the words of da Silva, “The daughter is conscious of her annihilation in the patriarchal society but she doesn’t have autonomy to overcome it.” Even though Beauty finds enjoyment in reading fairy tales while living with the Beast, it is as though despite living in a modern world with telephones and cars, Beauty wants to believe in the conventional “happily ever after.” By comparing Beauty to the immaculate snow upon which she gazes Carter emphasizes Beauty’s femininity, innocence, and virginity. By associating Beauty
Finding the similarities and differences between two things using just the brain and memories can be difficult sometimes. Using the internet, books, and movies can be extremely beneficial when it comes to comparing and contrasting. Something good to compare and contrast , that is very popular, would be Beauty and The Beast, as there is an original book, a cartoon, and a remake movie. What is your favorite book that has a movie made about it?