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Beauty and the Beast (Background Information (There was a very rich…

- - - - Misfortune strikes his family and he loses much of his money.
        
        He has to move.
        
        He later receives word that one of his ships has returned.
        
        He goes to collect the money but his companions had divided the money between themselves which is what leads into the conflict.
      - Through out all of the introduction Lang is setting Beauty apart from the other children.
      - The children had to move away with their father when they lost their money.
        
        The girls lost their friends as a result of the misfortune and had to work hard.
        
        The first five girls were depressed that they did not have any luxuries.
        
        The youngest showed a strong spirit which gave her the name Beauty.
        
        They were all glad that their father had money with only Beauty holding reservations that they would now be rich.
        
        All of the daughters ask for money and dresses from their father.
        
        Beauty only asks for a rose.
        
        The sons had to cultivate the fields to earn a living.
        
        The sons also wanted to be rich again as showed "All the sons and daughters at once thought that their poverty was at an end (Lang 174)."
        
        Not much else told about the sons in the stories other than that they wanted to kill the beast when he came for their father.
- - - - The action of taking a rose outrages the beast even telling the merchant that he deserved death "...but that will not save you from the death you deserve (Lang 176)."
        
        He tells the merchant that if he gives him one of his daughters that he will let him go. This act is probably propelled by desperation from his near death shown in this quote "...for if in good time you do not come back you will find your faithful beast dead (Lang 176)." This potentially explains why he reacted so harshly and drastically at the merchant taking a rose.
        
        If looking from the mindset that Beast had many readers wonders why he does not merely tell Beaty that he is the prince but instead chooses to merely tell her not to judge appearances.
        
        Each time Beast asks her to marry him when she says no must hurt greater to know that you are another day closer to death while no closer to salvation.
        
        When Beast tells Beaty that she could leave would have been a internal conflict that occurred within Beast to potentially sacrifice himself so that Beaty could see her family. This shows how Beast is either a great manipulator or a unselfish sacrificial person.
- - - - The story talks greatly about how Beaty continues to see good in her circumstances which really shows her true character.
        
        "...she made great effort to hide her horror and saluted him respectfully (Lang 178)." In attempting to remain cordial to Beast she must have given him hope that she would be able to see through appearances.
        
        After her dream Beauty immediately assumes that the prince is being held captive by the Beast which shows how naive she is especially after being told twice not to trust appearances.
        
        "And after about an hours talk Beauty began to think that the Beast was not so nearly as terrible as she had supposed at first (Lang 181)." this begins to show that she is seeing through appearances.
        
        What is perplexing in regards to Beaty is how she is explained as compassionate and cunning while still very forgetful and naive. This passage shows her forgetfulness. "But her happy dreams of the handsome young prince made her forget the poor Beast (Lang 182)."
        
        At the very end of the book the ending that had been set up from the beginning comes to fruition with Beauty seeing through the Beast and marrying him.