At first, the story symbolizes the animal part of the human condition, because a lot of myths and folk tales spoke of becoming a prince, by art of sorcery on a wild animal or a monster, which is redeemed by the kiss and love of a maiden.
Beauty and the beast can be interpreted as the arrival of a girl coming of age and sexuality. Conceived the love of his father, who loved above the rest of their sisters, as a pure love, she sees sex as something evil, and every man who feels sexual desire towards her is a beast. Just as soon as Bella is able to treat sex as a human adult, you can achieve happiness. Yet another variant of this concept would be that the feeling of the Beast is primitive and brutal, but the love of Women transforms it into something humane and restrained, that the story would be symbolized by the physical transformation from Beast to Prince .
The story has also been criticized as marriages of convenience. The first versions of the story came from high-class people of French ancien regime, where such unions were common. The union of a woman, especially young, with a man much older than her, without her consent, is observed as a metaphor in the story. The story criticizing these practices, but also claimed that if women are seeking in the interior of their elderly husbands to be kind to be found behind the appearance of Beast. Or that they achieve this transformation through his love.
The story of Beauty and the Beast appears in many other cultures in various ways. Aarne-Thompson 179 lists stories from different countries with a similar theme. Generally there are three sisters. The youngest, Bella, is pure and kind, while the other two show some of the worst human traits: greed, envy, pride. Bella does not get any name, is simply the youngest of the sisters, and received his nickname because of its beauty and for being the favorite of his father. Never the mother figure, thus obviating the conflicts that such a figure would be opposed to the girl went to live with a monster. At the same time, allowing the relationship with the parent, usually a rich, much closer, and facilitates the development of the story. Although the Beast can take many shapes (snakes, wolves and even a pig), the reason is always the same: rich and powerful, but not beautiful or attractive. In a moment, Bella is separated from the Beast, which falls, for some strange reason (love, betrayal, magical designs of its curse), terribly ill and lies dying. Bella remorse, whether in the form of tears or a simple trip to the end of the world again with his beloved, save the beast, and this is transformed into a beautiful prince. The Beauty of the Beast implicit reappeared when Bella is able to glimpse under the unpleasant appearance.
The story can also be placed in a psychological context. Men tend to be passive, with little or no comprehensive elderly, Bella, the youngest, is always pure and virginal, and his greatest desire is a rose. For Greeks and Romans, the rose was the symbol of pleasure, associated with luxury and extravagance. Represented the flower of love and romance. Highlight Bella's love for his father to ask him to bring you a rose. When his father fell ill and dying, can be interpreted in a literal sense or figuratively, as Bella's love is not to your parents, but towards the Beast.
According to the classification system of Aarne-Thompson, Beauty and the Beast d be classified in category 425A: Animal or Monster as a boyfriend or lover.

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