Fairy Tale Analysis

Fairy Tale Analysis

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Fairy Tale Essay
Beauty and the Beast
Children’s Literature

Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie LAPrince de Beumont, a well-known fairy tale, aims to teach children and adults good behavior. Beaumont's story reaches its happy ending when Beauty comes to appreciate the importance of merit over appearances, providing along the way a certain sense of consolation. However, the woman in the story feels at first that she must sacrifice her own desires to rescue her father. In Beauty and the Beast, the main character named Beauty is the ideal woman. She loves to read, is pretty, and is a nice, caring person. Her sisters on the other hand are the exact opposite. They are rude and care about no one but themselves. Children can learn from these different characters what the right way for a person act is. This story teaches children that they should care about others as much as they care about themselves.
De Beaumont's "Beauty and the Beast" is an early Fairy Tale addressed to children. Following the taste of the times, (De Beaumont died in 1780); Beauty showed young girls how to emphasize the proper upbringing, such as self-sacrifice, modesty, and diligence. Tatar refers to this outcome as a "reinscription of patriarchal norms, the subordination of female desire to male desire, and a glorification of filial duty and self-sacrifice" (Week 3 Part 1 notes). Beauty will find happiness with the Beast, who has all the virtues of a good husband: essence, if you will, over appearances and the sisters married for appearance and lost out, which just shows that you should not always judge people from the outside, but within the person. In the story, the Beast asks for Beauty’s hand in marriage, but she kept turning him down, and then she said to herself “Why haven't I wanted to marry him? I would be happier with him than my sisters are with their husbands. It is neither good looks nor great wit that makes a woman happy with her husband, but character, virtue, and...

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