Compare And Contrast Three Versions Of Beauty And The Beast
Cavin Jacobson
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Mrs. Gonyea
Drama
5/1/14
Compare and Contrast Three Versions of Beauty and the Beast
We are going to take a brief look at three versions of Beauty and the Beast to see how they differ from one another. The three versions that will be considered here are; the original story La Belle et la Bête written by Madame GabrielleSuzanne Barbot de Velleneuve in 1740, the second publishing of an abridged
Beauty and the Beast written by Madame Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont in
1756, and Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. In examining these stories the compare and contrast focus will be on how Belle is portrayed in each rendering and in the overall lessons of the stories.
In Villeneuve’s original …show more content…
It is also noteworthy to observe that the first two stories were written before the start of the French Revolution but Disney’s story leads us to believe that
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the French Revolution is the backdrop of the story. In the story first created by
Gabrielle Villeneuve we are not given the nickname of the youngest daughter,
Bella, until 470 words are told but in the rewritten story by Jeanne Beaumont we are told the nickname of the youngest daughter, “The little Beauty”, within the first
56 words. It is explained right away that she was admired when she was young because of her looks and as she grew up the nickname stuck but was reduced to just “Beauty”. In Disney’s version we are just told her name is Belle and that she is beautiful.
In conclusion I just want to take a look at the overall moral lessons that each rendition of Beauty and the Beast generally teaches. In both the original story and in Disney’s the lesson is seeing beyond outward appearances and loving someone for their inner beauty. In the second story told by Beaumont we do find the same lesson but surprisingly we find more lessons in this tale. Beaumont takes
Jacobson 1
Mrs. Gonyea
Drama
5/1/14
Compare and Contrast Three Versions of Beauty and the Beast
We are going to take a brief look at three versions of Beauty and the Beast to see how they differ from one another. The three versions that will be considered here are; the original story La Belle et la Bête written by Madame GabrielleSuzanne Barbot de Velleneuve in 1740, the second publishing of an abridged
Beauty and the Beast written by Madame Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont in
1756, and Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. In examining these stories the compare and contrast focus will be on how Belle is portrayed in each rendering and in the overall lessons of the stories.
In Villeneuve’s original …show more content…
It is also noteworthy to observe that the first two stories were written before the start of the French Revolution but Disney’s story leads us to believe that
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the French Revolution is the backdrop of the story. In the story first created by
Gabrielle Villeneuve we are not given the nickname of the youngest daughter,
Bella, until 470 words are told but in the rewritten story by Jeanne Beaumont we are told the nickname of the youngest daughter, “The little Beauty”, within the first
56 words. It is explained right away that she was admired when she was young because of her looks and as she grew up the nickname stuck but was reduced to just “Beauty”. In Disney’s version we are just told her name is Belle and that she is beautiful.
In conclusion I just want to take a look at the overall moral lessons that each rendition of Beauty and the Beast generally teaches. In both the original story and in Disney’s the lesson is seeing beyond outward appearances and loving someone for their inner beauty. In the second story told by Beaumont we do find the same lesson but surprisingly we find more lessons in this tale. Beaumont takes