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* UngratefulBastard: In many versions, the queen does not want her son to marry a commoner, even when this "commoner" was the person who managed to break the prince's curse.
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''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/index.html Beauty and the Beast]]'' is an old French FairyTale that was, at the time, basically propaganda for ArrangedMarriage using RagsToRoyalty. Over time it has lost that meaning and become more romanticized. The original literary version of the story was written in 1740 by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, and was a sprawling and convoluted affair of {{contrived coincidence}}s and last-minute exposition, in which the Beast and Beauty were revealed to be [[DoubleInLawMarriage double]] [[KissingCousins first cousins]], [[HalfHumanHybrid half-fairy]] (on their mothers' side), and [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses royalty]] (on their fathers' side). In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont condensed it to the version which is best known today (excepting Disney's). While using tropes found in older folk fairy tales, de Villeneuve's version is the first to use the title "Beauty and the Beast", and the psychological plot -- revolving around Beauty's mental conflict -- is not found in folk tales prior to this one.
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''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/index.html Beauty and the Beast]]'' is an old French FairyTale that was, at the time, basically propaganda for ArrangedMarriage using RagsToRoyalty. Over time it has lost that meaning and become more romanticized. The original literary version of the story was written in 1740 by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, and was a sprawling and convoluted affair of {{contrived coincidence}}s and last-minute exposition, in which the Beast and Beauty were revealed to be [[DoubleInLawMarriage double]] [[KissingCousins first cousins]], [[HalfHumanHybrid half-fairy]] (on their mothers' side), and [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses royalty]] royalty (on their fathers' side). In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont condensed it to the version which is best known today (excepting Disney's). While using tropes found in older folk fairy tales, de Villeneuve's version is the first to use the title "Beauty and the Beast", and the psychological plot -- revolving around Beauty's mental conflict -- is not found in folk tales prior to this one.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: In de Villeneuve's version, Beauty turns out to have been a princess SwitchedAtBirth.
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* RagsToRoyalty: Beauty in almost every version (save for the EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses variant).
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* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: In de Villenueve's version, Beauty was a princess who turned out to be SwitchedAtBirth.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: In de Villenueve's version, Beauty was a princess who turned out to be SwitchedAtBirth.
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* ''Literature/BryonyAndRoses'' (book by Creator/UrsulaVernon)
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty and the Beast| Golden 1999}}'' the second Creator/GoldenFilms version of the Fairy Tale made in 1999.
* ''[[http://www.batb.thecomicseries.com/archive/ Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast]]'' a webcomic adaption using the original de Villeneuve's version.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty and the Beast| Golden 1999}}'' 1999}}'', the second Creator/GoldenFilms version of the Fairy Tale made in 1999.
* ''[[http://www.batb.thecomicseries.com/archive/ Megan Kearney's Beauty and theBeast]]'' Beast]]'', a webcomic adaption using the original de Villeneuve's version.
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: The queen tries this in the original. Not that the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Prince objects to his mother’s rejection to the Fairy’s proposal of marriage.]][[note]] In the original tale by Gabrielle de Villeneuve, due to a declaration of war, the Queen entrusted her infant son into the care of a Fairy. After leaving for a few years, and returning when the Prince was around 14, the Fairy realised that [[Squick she’d fallen in love with him]] and asked him to marry her; something he turned down on the grounds of believing that not only was he still too young to enter into such an arrangement, but he also saw the Fairy as nothing more than a maternal figure in his life. Scarcely a year later, when the war is over, the Fairy decides to ask the Queen for her permission to marry the Prince, something that the Queen turns down for many a reason. [[IfICantHaveYou You can guess what happens next...]][[/note]]
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: The queen tries this in the original. Not that the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Prince objects to his mother’s rejection to the Fairy’s proposal of marriage.]][[note]] In the original tale by Gabrielle de Villeneuve, due to a declaration of war, the Queen entrusted her infant son into the care of a Fairy. After leaving for a few years, and returning when the Prince was around 14, [[JailBait upon seeing how beautiful the Prince had become in his adolescence, the Fairy realised that [[Squick she’d fallen in love with him]] and asked him to marry her; something he turned down on the grounds of believing that not only was he still too young to enter into such an arrangement, but he also saw the Fairy as nothing more than a maternal figure in his life. Scarcely a year later, when the war is over, the Fairy decides to ask the Queen for her permission to marry the Prince, something that the Queen turns down for many a reason. [[IfICantHaveYou You can guess what happens next...]][[/note]]
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: The queen tries this in the original. Not that the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Prince objects to his mother’s rejection to the Fairy’s marriage of marrying the Fairy.]]
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: The queen tries this in the original. Not that the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Prince objects to his mother’s rejection to the Fairy’s marriage proposal of marrying marriage.]][[note]] In the Fairy.]]original tale by Gabrielle de Villeneuve, due to a declaration of war, the Queen entrusted her infant son into the care of a Fairy. After leaving for a few years, and returning when the Prince was around 14, the Fairy realised that [[Squick she’d fallen in love with him]] and asked him to marry her; something he turned down on the grounds of believing that not only was he still too young to enter into such an arrangement, but he also saw the Fairy as nothing more than a maternal figure in his life. Scarcely a year later, when the war is over, the Fairy decides to ask the Queen for her permission to marry the Prince, something that the Queen turns down for many a reason. [[IfICantHaveYou You can guess what happens next...]][[/note]]
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As many people are unaware of due to Beaumont’s rewrite of Gabrielle de Villeneuve’s original story, the Beast was ordered by his Fairy beneficiary (a different fairy to the one who cursed him) to threaten the Merchant with death as it was part of her cunning plan to ensure that the Prince’s curse was broken. Threatening the Merchant was not something that the Beast wanted to do, but it was a thing that needed to be done because the Fairy (the one who cursed him) stated in her grounds for the curse’s reversal that the maiden who was destined to reverse her enchantment had to come to the castle under the belief that she was to be killed, only to discover that this was not to be the case once she arrived. The TLDR of this is simply that the Beast did not want to threaten the Merchant, nor did he wish him harm upon the Merchant, as threatening the Merchant to motivate Beauty’s inner goodness and kindness into action was part of the Fairy’s plan.
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* HappilyEverAfter: No matter what the journey to get there, the Beast turns back into a handsome prince[[note]]almost always; some modern adaptations like [=McKinley's=] ''Rose Daughter'' have him stay in his "beast" form, but this is not depicted as a negative[[/note]] and Beauty always gets a fairy tale wedding.
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* HappilyEverAfter: No matter what the journey to get there, the Beast turns back into a handsome prince[[note]]almost always; some modern adaptations like [=McKinley's=] ''Rose Daughter'' have him stay in his "beast" form, but this is [[FridgeHorror supposedly]] not depicted as a negative[[/note]] and Beauty always gets a fairy tale wedding.
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* InformedAttribute: The reader is told that [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold the Beast has a heart of gold,]] but considering that his first action was to threaten [[DisproportionateRetribution Beauty's father with either death or enslavement of a family member for picking a rose,]] he only shows kindness to Beauty because he [[EntitledToHaveYou expects her to eventually marry him,]] and does not have any major character development, many readers are skeptical of that assertion.
** Also a case of AluminumChristmasTrees. At the time the story was written down, the old laws still held power, including that stealing from a noble estate was punishable by death. Moreover, roses were massively expensive, especially if you had a unique cultivar; in essence, Beauty's father had just tried to steal something worth almost as much as the palace itself. True, Beast might have handled it better, but he ''was'' cursed to be stupid...
** Okay both of these are completely missing the point that in the original tale written by Madame De Villeneuve, the Beast was ‘’ordered’’ by his Fairy beneficiary (a different fairy to the one who cursed him) to threaten the Merchant with death as it was part of her cunning plan to ensure that the Prince’s curse was broken. Threatening the Merchant was not something that the Beast wanted to do, but it was a thing that needed to be done because the Fairy (the one who cursed him) stated in her grounds for the curse’s reversal that the maiden who was destined to reverse her enchantment had to come to the castle under the belief that she was to be killed, only to discover that this was not to be the case once she arrived.
** Also a case of AluminumChristmasTrees. At the time the story was written down, the old laws still held power, including that stealing from a noble estate was punishable by death. Moreover, roses were massively expensive, especially if you had a unique cultivar; in essence, Beauty's father had just tried to steal something worth almost as much as the palace itself. True, Beast might have handled it better, but he ''was'' cursed to be stupid...
** Okay both of these are completely missing the point that in the original tale written by Madame De Villeneuve, the Beast was ‘’ordered’’ by his Fairy beneficiary (a different fairy to the one who cursed him) to threaten the Merchant with death as it was part of her cunning plan to ensure that the Prince’s curse was broken. Threatening the Merchant was not something that the Beast wanted to do, but it was a thing that needed to be done because the Fairy (the one who cursed him) stated in her grounds for the curse’s reversal that the maiden who was destined to reverse her enchantment had to come to the castle under the belief that she was to be killed, only to discover that this was not to be the case once she arrived.
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** Okay both of these are completely missing the point that in the original tale written by Madame De Villeneuve, the Beast was ‘’ordered’m by his Fairy beneficiary (a different fairy to the one who cursed him) to threaten the Merchant with death as it was part of her plan to ensure that the curse was broken. Threatening the Merchant was not something that the Beast wanted to do, but it was a thing that needed to be done because the Fairy (the one who cursed him) stated in her grounds for the curse’s reversal that the maiden had to come to the castle under the belief that she was to be killed, only to discover that this was not to be the case once she arrived.
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** Okay both of these are completely missing the point that in the original tale written by Madame De Villeneuve, the Beast was ‘’ordered’m ‘’ordered’’ by his Fairy beneficiary (a different fairy to the one who cursed him) to threaten the Merchant with death as it was part of her cunning plan to ensure that the Prince’s curse was broken. Threatening the Merchant was not something that the Beast wanted to do, but it was a thing that needed to be done because the Fairy (the one who cursed him) stated in her grounds for the curse’s reversal that the maiden who was destined to reverse her enchantment had to come to the castle under the belief that she was to be killed, only to discover that this was not to be the case once she arrived.
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: The queen tries this in the original. Not that the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Prince objects to his mother’s veto of marrying the Fairy.]]
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* ParentalMarriageVeto: The queen tries this in the original. Not that the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Prince objects to his mother’s veto rejection to the Fairy’s marriage of marrying the Fairy.]]
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* SacredHospitality: A number of versions explained that the Prince became the Beast for violating this. Averted in the ‘’original’’ version where the Prince was cursed for a completely different reason.
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* SacredHospitality: A number of versions explained that the Prince became the Beast for violating this. Averted in the ‘’original’’ original version by De Villeneuve where the Prince was cursed for a [[IfICantHaveYou completely different reason.reason]].
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* AnAesop: Inner beauty is more important than appearance. Considering that Beauty's "reward" for following this aesop is that the Beast becomes handsome at the end, though, this might be considered a BrokenAesop, unless you're one of the people who believe the Prince returning to human form is ''his'' reward.
** Also, depending on what version you're reading, "be good to those less fortunate" (or just "don't turn away a traveler.") Several variants (most famously the Disney film) portray the Beast's predicament as a result of refusing to allow a fairy to take shelter in his castle and getting cursed as punishment. However many of them provide no explanation or explain that the fairy was just evil and his punishment was undeserved. Traditionally, it was often the result of refusing to marry a witch or evil fairy.
** Also, depending on what version you're reading, "be good to those less fortunate" (or just "don't turn away a traveler.") Several variants (most famously the Disney film) portray the Beast's predicament as a result of refusing to allow a fairy to take shelter in his castle and getting cursed as punishment. However many of them provide no explanation or explain that the fairy was just evil and his punishment was undeserved. Traditionally, it was often the result of refusing to marry a witch or evil fairy.
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* AnAesop: Inner beauty A person’s kind heart and good virtue is more important valuable than appearance. Considering that Beauty's "reward" for following this aesop is that the Beast becomes handsome at the end, though, this might be considered a BrokenAesop, unless you're one of the people who believe the Prince returning to human form is ''his'' reward.
their physical appearance and wit.
** Also, depending on what version you're reading, "be good to those less fortunate" (or just "don't turn away a traveler.") Several variants (most famously the Disney film) portray the Beast's predicament as a result of refusing to allow a fairy to take shelter in his castle and getting cursed as punishment.
*** Howevermany of them provide no explanation or explain that in the original Madame de Villeneuve version, [[AbhorrentAdmirer the fairy was just evil and his punishment the Prince’s curse was undeserved. Traditionally, it was often the result of refusing to marry a witch or evil fairy.completely undeserved]].
** Also, depending on what version you're reading, "be good to those less fortunate" (or just "don't turn away a traveler.") Several variants (most famously the Disney film) portray the Beast's predicament as a result of refusing to allow a fairy to take shelter in his castle and getting cursed as punishment.
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*** This trope was played with in the original version, the DisproportionateRetribution was actually something that the Beast’s Fairy beneficiary ordered him to do as it was a part of her plan to ensure that the curse would be reversed. In other words, the Beast didn’t want to threaten the Merchant, but he knew that he had to to ensure that everything would be set right.
** The Beast himself is always the victim of an angry fairy, and sometimes it's not even his fault - in the original Villeneuve version, he rejected an evil old fairy who was supposed to be his guardian.
** The Beast himself is always the victim of an angry fairy, and sometimes it's not even his fault - in the original Villeneuve version, he rejected an evil old fairy who was supposed to be his guardian.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: It's the tale of a young woman who's forced to move into the home of a wealthy older gentleman because of an arrangement that he made with her father. Considering the time period, it's extremely likely that this was intended as a metaphor for {{arranged marriage}}, with the story serving to prepare young girls for the day when ''they'' would be sent away to live with unfamiliar older men.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: It's the tale of a young woman who's forced to move into the home of a wealthy older gentleman because of an arrangement that he made with her father. Considering the time period, it's extremely likely that this was intended as a metaphor for {{arranged marriage}}, with the story serving to prepare young girls for the day when ''they'' would be sent away to live with unfamiliar older men.
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** Another BrokenAesop, because even after the curse breaks, the Prince is nearly denied being able to marry her because of her low birth and even Beauty refuses to marry him rather than shame him by her lower class. While the fairy that protected the prince tries to shame the Queen out of dismissing Beauty like this, her revelation that she had personally chosen Beauty because of her RoyalBlood pretty much borks that moral.
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* GildedCage: In every version, though there are variations, Beauty's father was to be killed by the beast. When she takes her father's place in the castle, she is waited on hand and foot by the castle's servants, on the condition she can never leave and the Beast asks for her hand in marriage.
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* FriendshipAsCourtship: Beauty and the Beast’s relationship in every version. She initially saw him as her friend until she realised that she loved him, and accepted his proposal of marriage.
* GildedCage: In every version, though there are variations, Beauty's father was to be killed by thebeast.beast [[note]] or so they thought[[/note]]. When she takes her father's place in the castle, she is waited on hand and foot by the castle's servants, on the condition she can never leave and the Beast asks for her hand in marriage.
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* VagueAge: The Prince/Beast. Beauty is canonically sixteen in the original tale by Madam de Villeneuve, but the only age we’re given of the Prince is when he’s fifteen years old and was cursed, though the story implies that only a year or two has progressed since that day so he’s possibly around 16-18. The fact that the Queen’s permission to marry the Prince is required by both the Fairy and Beauty only cements this possible age.
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** Okay both of these are completely missing the point that in the original tale written by Madame De Villeneuve, the Beast was ‘’ordered’m by his Fairy beneficiary (a different fairy to the one who cursed him) to threaten the Merchant with death as it was part of her plan to ensure that the curse was broken. Threatening the Merchant was not something that the Beast wanted to do, but it was a thing that needed to be done because the Fairy (the one who cursed him) stated in her grounds for the curse’s reversal that the maiden had to come to the castle under the belief that she was to be killed, only to discover that this was not to be the case once she arrived.
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* StockholmSyndrome: The story is ''very'' difficult to tell right, and often sounds like this since there's almost never a variant where the Beast doesn't trap the Beauty in his castle with the intent of eventually convincing her to marry him through sheer effort.
* TeenHero: Beauty is canonically sixteen in the original tale by Madame de Villeneuve. Likewise in the same version, the Prince became a war hero at fifteen after saving his Queen Mother’s life.
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* WomanScorned: The first version had the Beast cursed for refusing the hand of a fairy -- contrary to fairy law, at that.
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* WifeHusbandry: In de Villeneuve's version, the original tale written by Villeneuve, the fairy had been his the Prince’s nurse before demanding and raised him from infancy, even allowing the Prince to call her ‘mother’. It was when he was around 14, the Fairy realised that the Prince has become quite beautiful and she began to long for his hand in marriage. Soon afterwards, the Fairy requests the permission to marry her.
him from the Queen (despite the fact that the Prince has already turned down her proposal on the grounds that he was too young, and he didn’t love her in that way), too which the Queen rejects on the grounds that the Fairy is already too old to wed her son. [[IfICantHaveYou The Fairy is obviously not impressed and decides to take her anger out on the Prince...]]
* WomanScorned: Thefirst original version had the Beast cursed due to the fact that both he, and his Queen Mother, did not wish for refusing him to marry the hand of a fairy -- contrary to fairy law, at that.Fairy.
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** Also a case of AluminumChristmasTrees. At the time the story was written down, the old laws still held power, including that stealing from a noble estate was punishable by death. Moreover, roses were massively expensive, especially if you had a unique cultivar; in essence, Beauty's father had just tried to steal something worth almost as much as the palace itself. True, Beast might have handled it better, but he ''was'' cursed to be stupid...
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* ''Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast'' an ongoing webcomic adaption using the original de Villeneuve's version.
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* ''Megan ''[[http://www.batb.thecomicseries.com/archive/ Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast'' an ongoing Beast]]'' a webcomic adaption using the original de Villeneuve's version.
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* DeathByDespair: In several versions, the Beast begins dying out of sheer misery when Beauty doesn't return by the scheduled time he gave her.
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** The George C. Scott also has a similar character named Anthony, predating the Disney version. Notably, he ends up marrying one of the evil sisters!
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* TheSimpleGestureWins: In some tellings, Belle has greedy, grasping sisters. Belle ends up the favorite to their father, and thus the one he is most devoted to because her sisters demand expensive gifts from his travels, but Belle makes the same request every time: come home safe and if you happen to run across a rose, that would be lovely. This backfires because her father is willing to go to extremes for her simple request and that's what gets him in trouble with the Beast.
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* TheSimpleGestureWins: In some tellings, Belle Beauty has greedy, grasping sisters. Belle Beauty ends up the favorite to their father, and thus the one he is most devoted to because her sisters demand expensive gifts from his travels, but Belle Beauty makes the same request every time: come home safe and if you happen to run across a rose, that would be lovely. This backfires because her father is willing to go to extremes for her simple request and that's what gets him in trouble with the Beast.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Beauty's sisters get this treatment in Beaumont's version, going from somewhat self-centered and envious of Beauty in Villeneuve's original story to flat-out evil sisters who plot to stop Beauty from returning to the Beast in the hope that it will cause him to get angry and devour her (even though in Villeneuve's story, they were actually more than happy to see her return to the Beast if only because their suitors were getting too enamored of her and it was her well-meaning father and brothers who begged her to stay longer). Ironically, they often undergo AdaptationalHeroism in modern retellings, being portrayed as completely supportive and loving of Beauty in Robin [=McKinley=]'s ''[[Literature/BeautyARetellingOfBeautyAndTheBeast Beauty]]'', ''Literature/RoseDaughter'', and several other retellings.
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* TheSimpleGestureWins: In some tellings, Belle has greedy, grasping sisters. Belle ends up the favorite to their father, and thus the one he is most devoted to because her sisters demand expensive gifts from his travels, but Belle makes the same request every time: come home safe and if you happen to run across a rose, that would be lovely. This backfires because her father is willing to go to extremes for her simple request and that's what gets him in trouble with the Beast.
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* AlliterativeTitle: '''''B'''eauty and the '''B'''east''. Also in the original language, French: ''La '''B'''elle et la '''B'''ête''.
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* AlliterativeTitle: '''''B'''eauty '' '''B'''eauty and the '''B'''east''. Also in the original language, French: ''La '''B'''elle et la '''B'''ête''.
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* BerserkButton: Despite his monstrous appearance, the Beast is a kind individual and a gracious host... but for your own sake, ''don't'' pick one of his roses.
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* ''Megan Kearney's Beauty and the Beast'' an ongoing webcomic adaption using the original de Villeneuve's version.
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* ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast|1946}}'' (1946 French film by Jean Cocteau)
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** Also, depending on what version you're reading, "be good to those less fortunate" (or just "don't turn away a traveler.") Several variants (most famously the Disney film) portray the Beast's predicament as a result of refusing to allow a fairy to take shelter in his castle and getting cursed as punishment. However many of them provide no explanation or explain that the fairy was just evil and his punishment was undeserved.
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** Also, depending on what version you're reading, "be good to those less fortunate" (or just "don't turn away a traveler.") Several variants (most famously the Disney film) portray the Beast's predicament as a result of refusing to allow a fairy to take shelter in his castle and getting cursed as punishment. However many of them provide no explanation or explain that the fairy was just evil and his punishment was undeserved. Traditionally, it was often the result of refusing to marry a witch or evil fairy.
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* BeautyToBeast: The Beast used to be a handsome prince.
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* ''Literature/CruelBeauty'' (a book by Rosamund Hodge, filmed in 2014)
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:Buety is actually a half fairy in the original version, while most versions made her a full human]].
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* ''The Fire Rose'' (another one by Creator/MercedesLackey, this one nominally part of her ''Literature/ElementalMasters'' [though YMMV]. More importantly, this one doesn't start with the Beauty being called in so she can break the curse by falling in love with the Beast: the Beast is a magician and he needs her help to find a magical answer since she's skilled in the languages he needs her to decipher.)
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* ''The Fire Rose'' ''Literature/TheFireRose'' (another one by Creator/MercedesLackey, this one nominally part of her ''Literature/ElementalMasters'' [though YMMV]. More importantly, this one doesn't start with the Beauty being called in so she can break the curse by falling in love with the Beast: the Beast is a magician and he needs her help to find a magical answer since she's skilled in the languages he needs her to decipher.)decipher)
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* InformedAttribute: The reader is told that [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold the Beast has a heart of gold,]] but considering that his first action was to threaten [[DisproportionateRetribution Beauty's father with either death or enslavement of a family member for picking a rose,]] he only shows kindness to Beauty because he [[EntitledToHaveYou expects her to eventually marry him,]] and does not have any major character development, many readers are skeptical of that assertion.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastII'' the second Creator/GoldenFilms version of the Fairy Tale made in 1999.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastII'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Beauty and the Beast| Golden 1999}}'' the second Creator/GoldenFilms version of the Fairy Tale made in 1999.
