Narrative Voice In Beauty And The Beast

Voice within a narrative allows for validation to the intended values and ethics presented and an opportunity for the reader to express analysis about intended moral. An authoritative voice narrows the relationship of the narrator and the real reader, identifying the intended audiences as readers who need to be told explicit values and ethics without the capacity for translation. The interplay of narration is significant in presenting the implication of expression and analysis of storytelling. The relationship of narrator and implied reader can be authorized to validate the intended moral. Through weak narrative authority, the real reader can devise intended moral from interpretation and context. While through an authoritative narrative voice,

Perrault displays a stronger authoritative voice that breaks the interplay in the relationship of the narrator, the implied reader and the real reader. Through the validation of explicit authoritative narrative voice the relationship of intended reader to the narrator dismisses interpretation of designed moral of the real reader.

Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and Charles Perrault use the method of characterization by the use of narrative voice in the form of third person omniscient to articulate intended meaning. Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a narrative told in third person granting authorial subjectivity over the internal and external knowledge of characters, themes and events. Throughout the fairy tale, characterization is expressed through narrative voice and implicit integration through telling of the scene rather than development. The virtues of the characters within the story are given through the voice of the narrator presenting the juxtaposition of characters within, “Beauty and the Beast”. The moral of the fairy tale presents the importance of inner beauty verses material class or physical

The binary opposition of beauty and ugliness is expressed through the contrast of characterization of the protagonist and antagonist. Cinderella is a character to be represented, as hard working gracious beauty while the antagonist of the narrative, her stepmother and her stepsisters, are the implicit representation of the opposite of what the intended moral is attempting to address through characterization. These traits are presented through the narrative through telling verses showing through development and scene, rather the narrative voice is given authorial subjectivity to tell the reader about each of the characters presented within the narrative of the fairy tale. Perrault presents Cinderella’s character through the narration implying that in a young age she was victorious and gracious. He displays this through saying that, “he had likewise, by another wife, a young daughter, but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world” (Perrault). Further when presenting the character of the stepmother he states that after the wedding with Cinderella’s father, “the stepmother began to show herself in her true colors. She could