The Classic Beauty And The Beast

Love in Beauty and the Beast Awakening to a beast instead of the prince of one’s dreams, a nightmare or a dream come true. For the majority of ladies, this would be a nightmare, but for Beauty it is a dream come true. In the story, “A Version of the Classic Beauty and the Beast,” wrote by Andrew Lang and edited by Heidi Ann Heiner, the character of Beauty finds herself in what is thought to be a nightmare. Beauty, the daughter of a merchant, is brought together with the Beast after hard times and concession hit the family, resulting in the befriending of the Beast. There, she has dreams of her prince and wants him to be free to be with her. But in reality, her dreams have come true, the prince and the Beast are one in the same, her love is
He does this in order to keep her content and give her all she asks for, for he strives to please her into marrying him. Beauty has missed her family and longed to see her father again, therefore the Beast allows her two months to visit as an accord, but if she does not return after that time, she will return to the Beast, dead. The Beast tells Beauty, ‘I cannot refuse you anything you ask, even though it should cost me my life….But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over, or you may cause to repent it, for if you do not come in good time you will find your faithful Beast dead.’ (Lang). The Beast is saying that without her in his palace, he cannot live, that she can only be gone so long before he is dead. The Beast showed the theme of love in that he allowed her to go and visit her family, knowing he would pay for letting her do this. If she had not returned, there would be no Beauty and the Beast, meaning no prince of her
Upon her return to the palace, she could not find the Beast and thought she was too late and her emotions took over, futile against it. Bent on finding him, she begins looking for him until she finally spots him, upon thinking he was dead, she realized her love for the Beast was further compelling than she had known. When she found him lying, asleep, or so she believed, he resuscitated again now that she had returned to the palace just in time. She cried, ‘Oh! Beast, how you frightened me! I never knew how much I loved you until just now, when I feared I was too late to save your life.’ (Lang). The Beast responded, ‘Can you really love such an ugly creature as I am? Ah! Beauty, you only came just in time. I was dying because I thought you had forgotten your promise.’ (Lang). Beauty is revealing that being away made her realize just how much she truly enamored the Beast and the Beast is saying that he thought she was not coming back and he was dying as a result of his love for her. If Beauty had not returned when she did, the Beast would have been no more and the prince would have resulted in the same