Essays on Beauty and The Beast

The tale of "Beauty and the Beast" has been a beloved staple in literature and subsequent film adaptations, endearing many with its enchanting narrative and vivid characters. A closer examination of the storyline through the prism of "Beauty and the Beast feminism" reveals a rich...

The tale of “Beauty and the Beast” is one of the best-loved and most persistent fairy tales in modern culture. Its universal appeal is due to its endearing message of ‘true love’ and the idea that ‘beauty is found within’. However the concept of the...

Is the real beast the patriarchy? From a story where beauty becomes a beast, underlying issues of femininity, identity, and society are questioned, years before Disney upheld traditional notions of a female’s role through their portrayal of Beauty and the Beast. The Tiger’s Bride by...

Introduction Madame de Villeneuve’s The Story of The Beauty and The Beast is a fictional story set in France during the eighteenth century, in a town near the countryside. The story is told in third person point of view. Although it is fictional, many things...

The biggest difference that I noticed between the French version of Beauty and the Beast and the Disney version is the Disney version’s character development. In the French version, it talks about Beauty’s story and how she had to leave her father and fall in...

Traditional Gender Roles and the Media Traditionally, girls must be gentle and submissive while boys can rough house and have the freedom the opposite gender is denied. This idea of gender roles is birthed from the static expectations of old societal views. Although the media...

The predominant images in Beauty and the Beast are the rose, ballroom, castle and belle’s ball gown/yellow dress, which are images often associated with women. However in Eveline, a majority of the predominant images are not associated with women being dust, the window, the field,...