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Title
Dancing with the Beast
Artist
Ed Meredith
Medium
Pastel
Description
Beauty and the Beast is generally thought of it as an anonymous story handed down from the distant past, in fact, the tale is a literary one, created by the French writer Madame Gabrielle�Suzanne de Villeneuve in 1740.
De Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast is over one hundred pages long and published for adult readers, it is also somewhat different than the shorter version we know today.
Beauty's destiny lies in the hands of her father, who gives her over to the Beast (to save his own life) and thus seals her fate. The Beast is a truly fierce figure, not a gentle soul disguised by fur. He is a creature lost to the human world that had once been his by birthright. The emphasis of this tale is on the transformation of the Beast, who must find his way back to the human sphere. He is a genuine monster, eventually reclaimed by civility, magic, and love, and it is only then that Beauty can truly love him. Beauty's nightly refusal of the Beast and the slow awakening of both her attraction and her sexuality are contrasted with the Beast's struggles to contain his own animal nature. In this story, the final transformation does not occur until after Beauty weds her Beast, waking up in her marriage bed to find a human Prince beside her.
Beauty's task is to look where others would not, and to perceive the man within the Beast.
The Beast's own task is patience, and the reclaiming of the human within himself.
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