[29] Beggiining The Bloody Chamber

I think many people retell the story of Beauty and The Beast, because of the way they see the story. There are many different ways to view it. For example, Disney, retell of the story, never includes, that her father sold her, or lost her, but the fact that the character Belle, found the castle, and met the beast, and the beast was charmed by the way she stood up to him. Disney may have not included such dramatic scenes because its a kids movie, but it still a retell of it. Then you have to other versions, in the Bloody Chamber, where we learn in each the father plays a role in why Beauty, is sent to the castle. I think Carter tells retells the story of beauty and the beast twice, to show the different ideas of this story can be told. To get away from the modern beauty and the Beast idea where a girl meets a beast and she changes him back to a human, to the beast wasn't really a beast, but like in the "Tiger's Bride," he also wasn't a human either. The two stories could be connected in a way, "Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and "The Tiger's Bride," because in the Courtship, we learn the father goes poor, but never the reason why, but in the Tiger one, we learn the father is a gambling addict, and lost his daughter to the Beast, which is why she had to go to the castle. In the end of it all, any way you retell it, it all goes around the idea that a beautiful daughter gets sent to a castle, where she meets a unknown creature, and it turns out the catch feelings, and the unknown creature becomes known.