BEAUTY & THE BEAST - CHILDREN LITERATURE

Beauty & the Beast - Children Literature

Beauty & the Beast - Children Literature

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to make an analysis on the text from a particular genre. The text chosen in this paper is the fairy tale “Beauty and Beast” . Scenario story "Beauty and the Beast" is one of the classic fairy variations (Bacon 2002 45). This plot is usually attributed to screenwriting type 425 C by the Aarne-Thompson Classification: merchant travels and his two daughters are asked to bring clothes and jewels, and the youngest - a rose. He that fails loses his way and stopped for the night in the castle, where the morning finds are a rose and tears it. Then the unseen owner of the castle or the monster he predicted a quick death or imprisonment, but agreed to ensure that in return came a merchant's daughter. The youngest is in the castle of the monster, and enjoys spending there for a long time, watching the life of his family through a magic mirror, but refuses to marry a monster. Then she returns home to see his father, despite requests from the monster not to do so. Older sister build her wiles, and she is not in lock time, and finds the monster is already dying. However, her tears brought him back to life and turns into a handsome prince. And then they get married (Farrell 2003 312).

In addition, this story is akin to a fairy-tale type 425A "search for the lost husband, whose embodiment is the legend" Cupid and Psyche "from the works of the Roman writer Apuleius The Golden Ass. We tend to forget the basic story book about a young man Lucy, mistakenly transformed into a donkey his mistress - a witch (which is also quite consistent with the general theme of "Beauty and the Beast"). Loving girl from Apuleius turns man into a donkey, and returns to him a human face to the goddess Rhea Cybele, which was the him in a dream and contributes to, at its mysteries. Apuleevo transformation of man from beast in man is due to divine spiritual help, and not loving partner (Downey 2006 185). It seems to us that the mixing of these two subjects, this is not a common philological and psychological mistake - a terrible unconscious substitution, in which interaction with the monster is seen as a necessary test of womanhood. In addition, this scenario is close and perceived in the professional environment of psychotherapists who seek their own efforts to turn the monsters into a prince. But in the original Cupid and Psyche are present elevate the soul test, and the girl, soul - Psyche seeks for God. And in the story "Beauty and the Beast" mortal girl who is trying to raise a monster to myself, man, with the monster itself is just a vicious man, and not the original monster (Williams 2002 59). The discovery of this is fundamentally important for ...