Villeneuve Personification Analysis

Villeneuve uses personification in her writing to show that Beauty made her own conscious decision to stay and love the Beast, it was not because she was suffering from an illness where she falls in love with her captor. The first way that Villeneuve uses personification is when she brings monkeys into the fairy tale. She writes these monkeys to be servants to Beauty, waiting for her orders (Villeneuve 70). Villeneuve’s original version includes the birds and monkeys to have these human traits because when the fairy originally turned the prince into the Beast, another fairy turned the prince’s servants into monkeys and birds and everyone one else who was a witness of the transformation into stones, right where they stood. According to

Villeneuve uses love when she writes about the time when Beauty first notices that she does love the Beast and she does want to marry him. For the most part of the fairy tale, the Beast makes sure to ask Beauty if she would marry him in a daily basis, right after they had dinner. The sudden change from always saying no to finally agreeing happens after she spent some type apart from the Beast when she goes to visit her father. During this time apart, Beauty finally takes note of everything the Beast would do for her, from always asking how she is doing, to always making sure she has everything she needs (Villeneuve 100). Beauty then notices how much she loves him, she realizes how scared she really was to lose the Beast, then when realizing this, she vows to the Beast to marry him. Beauty’s own decision to marry the Beast is shown that Villeneuve wanted to show that Beauty did not marry him because she felt she had to for the sake of her life, but instead because she knew that she had feelings for the Beast. If Beauty had accepted the proposal because of fear, she would have accepted it the first night she had arrived there in the castle and the Beast had asked. Instead, just like Claire Fallon, a write for Huffington Post, said, Beauty practically begged the Beast to take her as his bride (Fallon). If Beauty did not love the Beast she would have not tried so hard to stay with him after he was virtually dead and had just about given up on her ever loving him back. The Beast obviously still wanting to marry her, accepted Beauty’s cries and agreed to still marry her. Love was always the factor in why the Beast and Beauty end up together in the end of this fairy tale, it was never because she thought if she did not accept his proposal then she would