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    The Feminist View: Beauty and the Beast The Disney film Beauty and the Beast was released in the year 1991 the film is a well known story that portrays the love between two completely different characters. This motion picture takes place in the mid 1700’s in a quaint French Town and focuses on the crazy inventor’ daughter Belle‚ who does not fall under what is expected from a young woman at the time. The film portrays Belle with a peculiar character‚ with an interest in her education and her nose

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    Kristel Rose Tretter “Beauty and the Beast” is a classic fairy tale that has been retold through various media such as oral storytelling‚ written short story‚ opera‚ film and musical theatre. With each rendition the story is given a new perspective and a focus on different elements for the reader/audience to consider. In 1946 Jean Cocteau adapted Madame Leprince de Beaumont’s written short story of “Beauty and the Beast” for the film‚ Beauty and the Beast‚ starring Jean Marais and Josette Day

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    place on traditional roles and heteronormative beliefs. Beauty and the Beast shows this standard beginning from the very first scene. The townspeople participate in menial tasks and join in song about the odd behavior of Belle. Through these menial tasks and interactions between the townspeople‚ this scene exemplifies the structured gender roles of heteronormativity motivated by a male dominant society. The beginning of “Beauty and the Beast” opens up with the song number “Bonjour.” The scene opens

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    Introduction “Beauty and the Beast” is a fairytale originally written by French writer Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve that has been remarkably adapted for modern screen media. The modern uses of the story illustrated the fantasy journey of Belle that was taken prisoner by a beast in his hidden castle. This story was not unveiled to its potential target audiences until it was selected as the 30th Disney animated feature film. The classic tale animated by Disney followed a suspenseful and

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    characters‚ the story of Beauty and the Beast can be read as being from the eyes of the Beauty. “Cupid and Psyche‚” written in C.E. 150 by Apuleius‚ Psyche played the role of Beauty‚ who wins back Cupid’s love by overcoming many obstacles which was given by Venus and become immortal. Different versions of the story appeared since Apuleius’ time. The eighteenth century governess and author‚ Marie Leprince de Beaumont‚ rewrote a lengthy seventeenth century version of Beauty and the beast. In this story Bell

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    Beauty and the Beast | Brothers Grimm Fairy TalesOnce upon a time as a merchant set off for market‚ he asked each of his three daughters what she would like as a present on his return. The first daughter wanted a brocade dress‚ the second a pearl necklace‚ but the third‚ whose name was Beauty‚ the youngest‚ prettiest and sweetest of them all‚ said to her father: "All I’d like is a rose you’ve picked specially for me!" When the merchant had finished his business‚ he set off for home. However‚ a

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    Beauty and Beast: The women as the true Beast of the classic fairytale” Beauty is a very controversial topic in our world‚ since not everyone thinks of it in the same terms. Here‚ I will discuss how beauty is‚ in actuality‚ the true beast of this classic story. If we think about the word “beast” we might also find unaccountable opinions about the topic. Although there are different concepts of what a ‘beauty’ is and what a ‘beast’ is‚ we will look at the different variations of this fairy tale

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    Beauty and the Beast In August of 2009‚ Jaycee Lee Dugard was found alive after she had been abducted in 1991‚ and she was still with her original captor. Sources have stated that Dugard had developed a case of Stockholm syndrome with the man who kidnapped her eighteen years ago. A psychiatrist named Keith Ablow stated that “To maintain one’s desperation and grief and rage for many years‚ would be too damaging to the human mind – so the human mind tells itself a story about safety and contentment

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    Beauty in the Beast Flowing peacefully between the foothills of West Virginia and the Ohio valley‚ lies one of nature’s most beautiful wonders. The Ohio river is a place many visitors find as refreshing as a cool glass of lemonade on a hot day. In the spring and summer months‚ a visitor may hear the laughter of friends enjoying a relaxing weekend. The quick speed of boats cause the water to smack against itself making waves that ripple out and splash against the river bank. They may smell a mixture

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    Elayne A. Saltzberg and Joan C. Chrisler Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body Women: A Feminist Perspective edited by Jo Freeman. Fifth Edition. Mountain View‚ CA: Mayfield Publishing Company‚ 1995. 306-315. Elayne Saltzberg (Daniels) was a postdoctoral clinical psychology fellow at Yale University School of Medicine. Her major interests include body image and eating disorders. She is an eating disorder specialist with a practice in Massachusetts

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