Story Review

Presented by: Zamzam Kelany

Presented to teacher: Rasha Mansour

Class: 8th grade

Date: 15/2/2021 

Story ID

Name of the story: Beauty and the Beast

Kind of story: Fairy tale

Writer: Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve

Year of publication: 1756

Setting

Place: Beauty’s house and beast’s castle.

Time: Once upon a time.

The characters

Beauty, her father, the beast, and servants.

Main character:

Beauty is a beautiful girl, with brown hair.
This girl loves her father, and she is very modest. She is likable, and kind-hearted.

She also loves to read books.

The beast was an enchanted and arrogant prince, but after getting to know Beauty, he changed and learned the meaning of love.

Secondary character:

Beauty’s father an eccentric inventor, but a loving father who supports Beauty’s dreams. Maurice gets lost on his way on one of his business trips that ended with his loss of his money and ends up stumbling upon the castle of the beast.

The beast’s servants are the people who take care of the beast’s condition and health, since his childhood years. When the enchantress puts a cursed spell on the beast and his servants, the servants retain the form of animated objects. Despite their terrible change, the beast’s servants still help the beast, from breaking the spell, and even they help him to find his true love, found within Beauty.  

The plot

In this story there are two problems. The first problem was that there was an arrogant prince, and one day an old lady knocked on the door of his castle and offered a rose in exchange for staying in the castle instead of getting soaked in the rain. The prince ignored her and she turned into a beautiful lady, casted a spell on the prince making him a beast and it can only be reversed by true love and if the last petal falls without being loved by a girl, he will be a beast forever.

After a long time Beauty began to love the beast, but the second problem started when Beauty’s father fell ill, and Beauty was late to return to the beast, and most of the flower’s petals had fallen off.

Theme

The theme of the story is that inner beauty is greater than physical beauty. Although Beauty is scared by the beast at first, she soon forgets his appearance and becomes his friend. She finds that he is a kind and compassionate person. It is his inner beauty that makes Beauty fall in love with him. Therefore, this story conveys the moral that you should not judge a person by his appearance and that real beauty comes from within.

Ending

When Beauty came back to the palace she found the beast was about to die because most of the flower’s petals had fallen off. She didn’t want him to die and she told him she will marry him.

Beast disappeared all of the sudden and its place was taken by a handsome prince. He told her all about a fairy enchanting him, and how the spell could have only been broken by a girl falling in love with him.

After her father got better they threw a wedding, and then they all lived happily ever after.

A different ending of the story

The flower’s petals fall, and Beauty did not proclaim her love for the beast. So all the servants become rigid, inanimate antiques, and the beast dies.

After that, Beauty begins to cry and finally she proclaims her love for the beast. Enchantress who cast the spell upon the castle in the story’s beginning pop back up.

When she sees the prince has found love, she takes it upon herself to revive and transform him back into a man as well as release the rest of the castle and its inhabitants from her spell.

In the end, Beauty lives happily with the prince.

The most character I like

The most character I like is the beast (the prince) because he is someone who undergoes a brilliant transformation. Of course, the beast had a lot of anger problems at the beginning, and had a very short fuse which leads to him losing his temper very quickly.

However, over the course of the story the beast clearly changes. He becomes much calmer and more gentle, focusing on actually learning about the people around him by listening. It shows his softer and funnier side.

The End