Comparing The Beauty And The Beast Fairy Tale

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And they lived happily ever after. This is by far the most common ending to multiple fairy tales including the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. In the classic fairy tale of the Beauty and the Beast in the version by Andrew Lang, tells how a wealthy merchant with six daughters and six sons become poor from a disastrous fire. The poor family is forced to move into a less luxurious home where they will have to provide for their own form of living. One day, the father goes out of town on a business trip and asks his daughters if they’d wish for anything while he was on his trip. Five of the daughters asked for clothes and jewels but Beauty, the youngest daughter, asked for a simple rose. On his trip back home he tries to collect Beauty’s rose …show more content…

When Beauty moves in with the beast, Beauty is able to have dinner with the beast every night and every night she is able to enjoy the beast’s company. Every night after dinner, the beast would ask Beauty, “Do you love me, Beauty? Will you marry me?” and Beauty would always respond, “Oh! no, Beast” (Lang). Soon, Beauty realizes that the beast’s hideous physical appearance is nothing more than a disguise because she becomes less afraid of the beast with every night spent together. Beauty is able to see past the unattractive face of the beast and sees that the beast is caring, respectful and innocuous. Beauty is still unsure about her feelings towards the beast until she finds herself running back to her beloved beast. Beauty informs the beast that she wishes to see her family and the beast grants her her wish as long as she promises to return back to him within a reasonable time or he will die. Beauty promises and of she went to reunite with her family. On her visit, Beauty embraces her family with hugs and thoughtful words, but after a while of visiting Beauty starts to feel left out because her family had accustomed to live without her. With the plea of her father and brothers to not abandon them she stays longer than she had promised the beast. Eventually, Beauty no longer wanted to stay, she said her goodbyes and the next morning she …show more content…

Beauty amazingly finds love in an unfamiliar place with the most uncanny person but in this case with the most uncanny beast. In a similar story of Zelinda and the Monster, Zelinda is also able to find unexpected love. Zelinda is capable of finding love with a serpent like monster. Zelinda's poor father, also, turns her over to the monster because that is as the monster demands. Zelinda has to, not only, continue living her life in a foreign castle but she has to accommodate herself along the side of the serpent. Zelinda gradually familiarizes herself with the castle and makes of it a sweet home. Like in the classic Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, the serpent regularly asks Zelinda to marry him and she always respond that she would never marry him because he was too hideous. One day, the monster summoned Zelinda and advised her to take a glimpse into his magical mirror. As she did the serpent said, “He is ill and near the end of his life, and you will not be able even to see him again. See whether I am telling you the truth” (Crane). Taking a glimpse she could see her father lying on his deathbed and she immediately asked the serpent to aid her father. The serpent did assist her father, the poor father was in good health and Zelinda was forever grateful. Zelinda saw a tender and angelic side to the serpent that causes her to rethink her conjecture on why she

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