The Beast Is Presented With Dimensions Unusual To Fairy Tale Males. Although One Can Point To Plenty

“The Beast is presented with dimensions unusual to fairy tale males. Although one can point to plenty of handsome princes or even precedents for good-hearted blockheads who can make a princess laugh (surely a sensible prerequisite for marriage), those are barely outlined heroic or comic figures, while the Beast is fully sensitive and potentially tragic. He is, in short, capable of love, an emotion of little importance in the development of many fairy tales except as a convenient dénouement. The Beast’s courtship is never assumed or forced. His redemption from loneliness depends, not on strength or valor, but on another’s love and consent.”

— Betsy Hearne - “Beauty and the Beast - Versions and Revisions of an Old Tale”

JANE EYRE (2011)

JANE AND MR ROCHESTER

dir. cary joji fukunaga

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