Beauty And The Beast

Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. The ring, the curse, and the rose pressure the beast into transforming his cruel heart into one that is pure and full of love. These items help to cleanse him of his spiteful ways and allow him to find true love. The fairytale all starts when an old woman arrives at the castle, requests shelter, and offers the prince an enchanted rose in return. The prince being the coldhearted…...

Angela Carter ’s story 'The Courtship of Mr. Lyon' is the legendary tale of The Beauty and The Beast, originally written in 1790. Carter’s twist of the story has an overall impactful message that reinforces the liberation of women. This eerie love story has an agenda to address common ideologies that for centuries habitually ordered women to conform to a patriarchal society and unequal gender expectations. Carter develops the female protagonist Beauty and transforms her from a dependent daughter feeling…...

For most, when they hear the name Broadway, their mind instantly jumps to the great classics. Tunes from The Sound of Music may begin to chime in their head or the epic rock anthems from Rent may ignite that nineties rebel flame they now have buried deep in their heart. For others, the most popular productions of the last decade such as Lin Manuel Miranda's hit show, Hamilton, or the unofficial prequel to The Wizard of Oz, Wicked, may pop…...

In August of 2009, Jaycee Lee Dugard was discovered alive after she had actually been abducted in 1991, and she was still with her initial captor. Sources have actually specified that Dugard had actually established a case of Stockholm syndrome with the man who abducted her eighteen years back. A psychiatrist named Keith Ablow mentioned that "To keep one's desperation and sorrow and rage for several years, would be too destructive to the human mind-- so the human mind informs…...

It has been stated that of all film studios to produce princess movies, Disney has the claim on this particular market (Whelan). From Snow White, Cinderella, and Aurora to Rapunzel, Tiana, and Merida, there has been a progression in the way Disney portrays the females in their movies. In the beginning, Disney studios went along with the beliefs from the period that women should be frail and in need of a man to come and rescue them. By the last…...

Dave Barry in Beauty and the Beast states how women care more about their looks than men do. I can relate to this story because as a woman I know that we care more about looks than man do, we always try and look good for other people as well not only for our loved ones. For a woman our appearance is a big deal and we don’t like to get bad comments about our looks. Most men think of…...

Cartoons are the most frequent and easily accessible source of entertainment which we provide to children. With the vastness of media and extension of channels, it has become easier for children to watch their favourite cartoons on a single click and at the same time it has become more convenient for parents to provide children with this all-time favourite activity of theirs. Time which was previously spent by children in outdoor activities is now replaced, as now they can be…...

Jean Cocteau, a French poet and filmmaker, is said to be influenced by Cupid and Psyche when he does the film Beauty and the Beast in 1946. Cocteau is surrealist who loves to produce incongruous imagery by means of unnatural combinations in his films. Adding to that, he is fond of myth and fairy tales. The influence is made clear by the several similarities between the Beauty and the Beast and the Cupid and Psyche, a story taken from the…...

The short story_The Tigers Bride_ raises thought provoking concepts around gender through a plot both alike and unlike traditional Beauty and the Beast. The role of both genders is explored and true freedom questioned within the bounds of society. The text delivers a powerful and even handed message to the genders that constraints are merely a construct, a mask which can slip and shatter when pressure is applied. Angela Carter sketches a bleak setting, and equally bleak outlook for the…...

Every child has a hero, someone they look up to, someone who guides their thoughts and influences their life. My childhood hero was Belle from the fairytale, The Beauty and the Beast. As a child, I watched the movie end to end and read the book countless times, losing myself in her magical world so completely that I actually began to know the lines by heart. I never once got bored of it and frankly, right until today, Belle is…...