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Comparing the portrayal of characters by the animators of the Walt Disney version of Beauty of the Beast and the classic text by Madame Leprince de Beaumont
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Coursework 15th December Comparing the portrayal of characters by the animators of the Walt Disney version of Beauty of the Beast and the classic text by Madame Leprince de Beaumont 'Fairy tales, folk tales and fables are about human behaviour in a world of magic.' This was written by E. Cook, a book called 'The Ordinary and the Fabulous' published by Cambridge University Press in 1976. I think that Madame Leprince de Beaumont's version and Disney's both use this as their framework for their stories. In this essay, my main line of argument is that Disney has aimed for a romantic comedy animation genre, with their target audiences being families, whereas Madame Leprince de Beaumont has aimed to make it a romance and with a generally explicit message, her target audience being upper class girls learning lessons in life. Here is an extract from 'Breaking the Magic Spell' be Jack Zipes,...
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