Can you believe it?! I absolutely loved that plot twist considering the pair wanted to kill each other by the end of the story. The biggest surprise that I came across while reading The Beast Withinwas that Gaston and the Prince were friends. More importantly, he didn’t care if a woman had personality because he didn’t want a wife who took attention away from him. He preferred his woman silent, and who never had a thought of their own. The Prince only was in search of beautiful women who were of royal blood. With that being said, the prince treated women terribly and was disgustingly superficial and shallow. He wanted a different sort of life, and he learned early on he didn’t have to slay a fire-breathing beast to get a fair maiden to kiss him.” “Our prince didn’t want anything to do with romantic poppycock. When it came to love and romance, he wasn’t your typical knight in shining armor. In The Beast Within, we learn that the Prince had a huge ego, and loved to be worshipped by the people of his Kingdom. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast reveals to us that the Prince was cursed for a being spoiled, selfish, and unkind, but we don’t find out too much more beyond that. It's a story of vanity and arrogance, of love and hatred, of beastliness, and, of course, of beauty.The first thing I really liked about Valentino’s retelling was she showed us how awful of a person the Prince really was. This is one version, pulled down from the many passed down through the ages. No matter which version one hears, the nagging question remains: what was it that transformed the prince into the beast we are introduced to? The two live happily ever after.īut any tale, especially one as storied as Beauty and the Beast's, has been told many different times, and in many different ways. He is transformed by her compassion, and the love he feels for her in return. A lovely maiden comes into this monster's life. The tale is as old as time: a cruel prince is transformed into a beast. Few have seen him, but those who claim they have say his hair is wild and nails are sharp-like a beast's! But how did this prince, once jovial and beloved by the people, come to be a reclusive and bitter monster? And is it possible that he can ever find true love and break the curse that has been placed upon him?-from the publisher A cursed prince sits alone in a secluded castle.
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