Comparing Beaumont's Beauty And The Beast

As one is growing up, childhood is solely based on things like obtaining the latest toys, learning how to riding a bike, but most importantly watching Disney movies on Saturday mornings. “Beauty and the Beast” focuses on building traits like kindness, selfness, and love. In the original story, by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont, the moral is that one should not be quick to judge others by their appearance, but instead learn who they are as a person. In 1991, Walt Disney altered Beaumont’s story and produced a touching, animated movie also titled Beauty and the Beast. Disney’s main alterations to the plot can be seen in the significance of the rose, the Beast’s emotions, and they ending. Although the original story and movie are different in some ways, the moral of the story remained the same being that one should not judge book by its cover without reading the pages first. The stories by Beaumont and Disney are similar, but have some

One night, an old, poor looking women comes to the Prince’s castle doorstep begging for shelter, in return she would give him a beautiful rose. He objects to her offer because of the woman’s unpleasant appearance. She warns him that he should not “be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within,” (Beauty and the Beast, 1991) but without hesitation he rejects her offer and slams the door. As a result, she curses the handsome Prince by turning him into an ugly beast and giving him the rose as a time clock. “If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not he would be doomed to remain a beast for all the time” (Beauty and the Beast, 1991). In Disney’s version the rose symbolizes a clock for the Beast. If he does not find someone to fall in love with him, then he has no choice but to live a lonely life as a terrifying and horrid