Beauty and the Beast Literary Analysis

Beauty and the Beast Don’t judge a book by its cover. Beauty and The Best is a well know fairytale that has this hidden concept. The best-known version of the story, popularized through Disney, is Madame de Beaumont’s version. The book goes in depth with the two main characters Belle as Beauty and Prince Adam as The Beast. Both characters are protagonists in the fable. The story is examined through three critical perspectives. The analyses include Moral, Fredian, and Reader Response. Fairytales and fables offer moral lessons to be learned. The Story begins with a handsome but self-absorbed prince named Adam. He was given the chance to help an elderly woman who was seeking shelter from the cold. She offers a single rose, but instead he turns his back on her. This old woman turns out to be a beautiful enchantress with magical powers. He tries to apologize, but she sees no love in his arrogant heart for others. She cast a spell on the prince turning him into a beast. She also curses the castle turning it into a foreboding place. The staff working in the castle also fell under the curse. They are changed into objects which represented their profession. The only way Prince Adam can break the spell was to learn to love another and earn her love in return before the last petal fell from his enchanted rose. The rose would stop blooming on his twenty-first birthday and if he did not break the curse he would forever remain a lonely beast in his castle. The prince was given a magical mirror. The mirror possessed the power to watch what was going on in the world outside of the castle. The Beast was ashamed of his looks and would not step outside into society. In a nearby village a beautiful young girl resides by the name of Belle. Belle is a bookworm who feels misunderstood because she is intellectual. She finds herself daydreaming about a life outside the provincial village and a better life. Her father Maurice is an inventor. He decides to