At every moment in the brain, messages travel from neuron to neuron by jumping from terminal branches to dendrites and speeding down axons to create thoughts and ideas that fuel emotions and actions. Fairy tales become messages and float from neuron to neuron in the brain to generate images of unrealistic worlds filled with castles guarded by dragons, Fairy God Mothers who grant your every wish and genies who arrive out of lamps only to cause more problems or to fulfill destiny. Authors designed fairy tales to take the reader away from daily rituals in order to allow the reader to explore unattainable worlds and experience the journey of becoming a desirable, wealthy prince who saves the damsel in distress or become a poor girl who helps a beast transform back into a prince at her acquiescence of marriage. Beauty and the Beast uses many psychological strategies to allow the reader to comprehend how money, grief and appearances can affect the outcomes of a situation because of how the character thinks. Authors of fairy tales manipulate the mind by utilizing psychological strategies in order to show how impulses and desires centered on wealth, power, guilt, fear and appearances motivate actions by characters and influence emotions to magnify the theme of the story.
Books upon books fill children’s bookshelves and those books contain scenes of knights slaying dragons, discovering riches and treasures and the idea that any individual can be swooped up and turned into a wealthy, powerful individual. Freud introduces the idea of wish fulfillment as immature and “that all dreams are really children’s dreams (Freud 533)” because most dreams contain no substance, except for a minuscule and materialistic desire to be wealthy and powerful...
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... story, they do leave an impact such as the idea that appearances should not matter if a person’s heart is beautiful. Individuals must learn to control their mind to make desires and “impulses inoperative (Freud 422)” or without meaning in their lives. Beauty and the Beast shows how love can overcome an obstacle of the mind such as dealing with a foul image and how authors can utilize mental strategies to magnify the human mind’s many errors of perception.
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When examining Beauty and the Beast by Andrew Lang, from a feminist perspective, it is evident that the portrayal and treatment of women is dreadful. The story was written in 1889 where women were seen as objects that were solely there for men’s pleasure and although, for once, the woman is portrayed as the heroine and not a damsel in distress, the story still includes misogynistic elements. For instance, when the beast threatens the father, the two characters treat Beauty as if she is an object that can be traded. On top of that, a father, who is supposed to love their children and protect them, decides it is okay give away his daughter, so he could stay alive. To add, later on in the story, Beauty seeks advice from her father about her dreams and he says, "You tell me yourself that the Beast, frightful as he is, loves you dearly, and deserves
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The fairytale The Beauty and the Beast is illustrated as a love story, however when looking deeper into Belle’s nature it seems to be that she is affected by several disorders throughout the film. In Beauty and the Beast, we see Disney once again sugarcoat personal problems in order to present a young audience with a one dimensional and simple female hero. Belle has clearly shown symptoms of Schizoid Personality Disorder, Stockholm Syndrome and Schizophrenia which can be treated by a biological therapeutic approach or a psychoactive drug approach and therapy.
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...e ability to achieve anything in life. Hopefully, readers would learn from this novel that beauty is not the most important aspect in life. Society today emphasizes the beauty of one's outer facade. The external appearance of a person is the first thing that is noticed. People should look for a person's inner beauty and love the person for the beauty inside. Beauty, a powerful aspect of life, can draw attention but at the same time it can hide things that one does not want disclosed. Beauty can be used in a variety of ways to affect one's status in culture, politics, and society. Beauty most certainly should not be used to excuse punishment for bad deeds. Beauty is associated with goodness, but that it is not always the case. This story describes how the external attractiveness of a person can influence people's behavior and can corrupt their inner beauty.
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.
Fairy tales have been around for hundreds of years, dating all the way back to at least the 1600’s and are still common narratives today. The way they are told has changed, but the purpose of them as not shifted. They used to be passed down by word of mouth or by writing, and now they are passed down through children’s book, to adult novels, to motion pictures and plays. Certainly they are used for entertainment, but fairy tales also teach us valuable life lessons in danger, safety, respect, friendships, and love.