Beauty and the Beast is a classic folk tale known by every girl and aspiring Disney Princess. However, the Disney classic is just one version of the famous tale. Italo Calvino wrote “Bellinda e il Mostro”, which is the Italian version of Beauty and the Beast, in the year 1956. The classic Disney Princess, Belle, made her first appearance in 1991. While the two tales contain several similarities, they also contain many small details that turn them into two very different stories. Italo Calvino’s “Bellinda e il Mostro”, tells the story of Bellinda, a beautiful young girl from Italy who is one of three daughters of a merchant. Disney almost tells the story the same. In the classic Disney film, Belle is the only child of Maurice, an inventor, …show more content…
The introduction to the castle, and beast, start off with a trip from the father. In the story, the father’s lost ship carrying his merchandise was found, and he was on his way to retrieve his belongings. In the film, Maurice was on his way to sell some of his music boxes. Both ended up frightfully lost, and their confused journeys led them to a castle. Not only did they both end up at a castle, they were both in search for a perfect rose for their daughters and both found the roses in a garden. After the rose was taken, they were both captured and kept prisoner. Bellinda took her father's place living with the Monster to spare her father and sisters from death, Belle took her father’s place to spare him being locked up for the rest of his years. Both Belle and Bellinda initially found their hosts to be repulsive, but over time the relationships evolved. In fact, in both stories the beasts allowed the girls to leave. Bellinda wanted to attend her sister’s weddings and go see her father, every time she asked, the Monster let her go. Belle wanted to go home to save her father from Gaston, even though the Beast feared she would never come back, but he let her go. In the end of both stories, Belle and Bellinda find that they love their captors, despite appearance, and they break the
Fairy tale is a story that features folkloric chapters and enchantments, often involving a far-fetching sequence of events. Fairy tales have been around for thousands of years, whether it comes from Grimm’s Fairy Tales which is what most people consider the “classic” or “traditional” fairy tales to Disney movies, the idea of the fairy tale fills our society with lessons and examples of how we should behave and live; fairy tales teach the same things in different ways, or teach different things with the same tale. A couple of these tales are “Beauty and the Beast”, by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont and “The Pig King”, by Giovanni Francesco Straparola. They are both tales about falling in love with someone despite their appearance. The similarities and differences between “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Pig King” is captivating while still depicting a similar tale. They are similar in the way they find love and their love story but they also share a similar behavior pattern in the way the girls behave towards the prince. However, the two tales do display a difference in the attitudes of the princes and their actions towards their love
Shrek has taken the role of combining Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty’s storyline and parts of the plot into the some of the main focuses of Shrek. The greater standout parts of the stories were picked out and used, but changed so that it was not copied exactly, but are still sure-enough similar. A number of people do not pick up on the similarities that have been interchanged within, such as in Sleeping Beauty. Although, after doing researching it makes, it easier s to pick up on parts of the story that were not easily recognized before. Beauty, who is the princess in Sleeping Beauty, was put under a sleeping spell and locked in a castle; Fiona too was locked in a castle where she was put under a spell. The spells, however, were different, but the idea remains the same. Tiffin also mentions the “dragon-slaying quest” (Tiffin ln 19) that takes place in Sleeping Beauty, Shrek and Donkey also have no choice but to deal with the dragon that is guarding Fiona in the castle. Fiona too is a princess just like in countless versions of Sleeping Beauty, such as the Grimm brother’s, Little Brier Rose. Yet, Fiona being under a spell that turns her into an ogre happens every night at sunset until the spell is broken by “true love’s first kiss”. This
The use of ‘wild’ in both Catherine and La Belle’s descriptions shows their similarity in nature. The similarities of their descriptions of a charming, appealing appearances compared with their saucy, wild natures demonstrate the comparison of conflict within these texts.
Beauty is written by Robin McKinley in 1993 which is a retelling of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.
Like in the original story, when Talia, who was Sleeping Beauty and the princess of the land, was first born, her parents had a party to celebrate her birth, but they didn’t invite one of the fairies, Malvolia, to the celebration; that fairy ended up showing up angry and cursed the child that, “Before her sixteenth birthday, the princess shall prick her finger on a spindle and die!” the curse was then altered by the last fairy, who hadn’t given the child a gift yet, to say that Talia wouldn’t die when she pricked her finger; instead, she would fall into a deep sleep, along with the rest of the kingdom, until one day she will be awakened by true love’s first kiss. Another similarity was that, the night before her sixteenth birthday, Talia, was lured to an old tower in the castle where a woman, the evil witch Malvolia, was spinning thread for dresses. She tricked Talia into touching the spindle and Talia and the rest of her kingdom fell into a deep sleep. The last major similarity in these two books is, that Talia was awoken by true love’s kiss, like Sleeping beauty was, and Talia and Jack, the boy that found her a saved her from her curse, got to live happy lives
The story was created by Charles Perrault in 1696, Brothers Grimm later in the 19th century and renewed by Disney in 1959. The story is about a young girl who was cursed as a baby born to grow in beauty and grace but on her sixteenth birthday, she’ll prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die. The fairies alter the curse so that instead of dying, Princess Aurora will fall into a deathlike sleep and only a truelove’s kiss will wake her up. Eventually, the plan works and she is later woken up by Prince Phillip. The Princess is portrayed as a beautiful young girl with long golden blonde hair, violet eyes, rose red lips and fair skin. We can recognize that, like Cinderella, beauty is associated with goodness since Aurora is also described as a kind, gentle sweet, graceful and charming Princess. Moreover, her beauty is what saves her from the curse since the Prince fell in love instantly when they were
Beauty and the Beast centers on Belle who is desired by handsome but egocentric Gaston. Belle’s father, disappears on a journey to a local fair and becomes captive of the Beast. Belle bravely offers herself as an alternative hostage and Beast accepts. As his prisoner, Belle befriends Beast’s household of Enchanted Objects, all talking, walking furniture and kitchen utensils. Belle learns about how the Beast and his staff are all the victims of a witch’s curse that has transformed them. They fall in love during her hostage. In the end, Bella’s love reverses the spell on the Beast.
There was once a story called sleeping beauty. This story had four different storylines. Disney you would know this because you have made one of the versions . The two stories that are similar to each other is the story of Basile and Perrault. Your story is more similar to Grimm’s.
Throughout the movie The Beauty and The Beast Disney presents a classic fairytale, but when seen in a different perspective it demonstrated that not everything is as it seems. Belle is affected by multiple disorders starting with Introversion, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Schizophrenia as well as Stockholm Syndrome. However, with psychoactive drugs and extensive therapy Belle can be treated to allow her to progress prevent a relapse in her daily
Even though these two stories are very different from each other, they also use the same theme of intimacy; though, in different senses. Carter’s version of “Beauty and the Beast”, “The Tiger’s Bride”, seems to be written in response to Madame de Beaumont’s version. Carter shown
Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins. Her lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in Magasin des enfants to produce the version most commonly retold. In France, for example, Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story, written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771, which had enormous success well into the 19th century; it is based on the second version of the tale. Amour pour amour, by Nivelle de la Chaussée, is a 1742 play based on Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's version. According to researchers at universities in
The 1950’s Cinderella created by world-renown Disney director, Clyde Geronimi, has been established as the most renown and generic story out of all. In comparison to Charles Perrault’s “Cinderella”, the standard storyline, both have the same concepts. Similarities such as the abuse, the magic, and the happily ever after is present in both exactly. Although, there are also horrifying aspects to discuss about Cinderella and their other versions. Certain acts such as the abuse and mutilation are considered to be unjust and not right, no matter the situation; but perhaps Cinderella was not as virtuous and kind as portrayed in the 1950’s film.
In conclusion, it is common that both Beauty and the Beast stories written in different countries have their similarities and differences since the authors imagined different ideas. It makes Beauty and the Beast an even more interesting story being that there are many versions of it around the world.
One of the most loved Disney movies of all time, the 1991 animated movie Beauty and the Beast directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale features talking teacups, enchanted castles, gorgeous animation, catchy songs, and large helping of traditional gender roles. The countless favorite of many children and adults, many people know the story well. Belle, the bookish, dreamy, and beautiful daughter of an inventor is the talk of the town and the fixation of the most handsome guy around, the pushy and egotistical Gaston. After sacrificing herself for her father, Belle becomes imprisoned in an enchanted castle. Everyone in the castle is under a spell due to the selfish prince who lived there due to his failure to see what was inside of people. As a result, he is turned into a hideous beast and all of his servants are turned into household objects. To break this spell, he must fall in love with a girl and have her love him in return, despite his hideous exterior. But unfortunately for the Beast it’s not only his exterior that’s hideous. He treats Belle with no respect, even going so far as to threaten and yell at her. He eventually changes her heart with the help of his enchanted friends and she changes his through her kindness. Gaston tries his utmost to make Belle his own, entrapping her and fighting the Beast, but eventually he is unsuccessful, the good guys win, and the whole castle and its inhabitants are transformed by love and everybody lives happily ever after.
Beauty and the Beast is probably one of the most well known fairy tales that the Grimms’ reproduced. In it’s original form it was a long, drawn out story that was catered to adults. The Grimms’ changed the story to be more understood by children and made it short and to the point. Unlike many of the other fairy tales that they reproduced, Beauty and the Beast contains many subtle symbols in its purest form. It shows a girl and how she transfers to a woman; it also shows that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The one major thing that separates this story from all the rest is that Beauty gets to know the Beast before marrying him.