The merchant agrees and makes his way home.
The Beast makes a deal with him that he can take the rose and other riches back to his daughter but only if he agrees to return and does not tell his daughter of the deal. The merchant explains that he only picked the rose for his daughter. Suddenly a beast appears and tells him he must die for abusing his hospitality. In the morning as he leaves he finds a beautiful rose bush in the garden and picks a single flower for his daughter Belle. Finding no one else in the castle, he eats the food himself. Hungry and tired, he enters the castle and finds a feast laid out on a grand table. Late one night a merchant becomes lost in the woods and stumbles upon a seemingly deserted castle. Accession number: WCA.1.1.1.1.3.Beauty and the Beast is a magical tale of love, understanding, and triumph. Image: Walter Crane (1845-1915), Reproduction of illustration 5 from 'Beauty and the Beast'.
They are reunited after Psyche completes a series of trials.
She believes that she is married to a monster who has been kind to her thus far until she is tempted to gaze upon her husband's face by the light of an oil lamp and in doing so wakes Cupid, who flees. What do you think? Is Villeneuve's version a feminist tale or not? It is thought that Villeneuve was partly inspired by the tale of Cupid and Psyche, in which the maiden Psyche is wed to the god Cupid but forbidden to see his face. Yet Beauty would not have met the Beast were it not for the promise her adoptive father makes earlier on in the tale, when he agrees to send her to the Beast's home as payment for having tried to take one of the Beast's roses. The Beast begins to die when he thinks that Beauty has forgotten her promise to return to him and it is only upon her return and her declaration of her love for him that he is revived and returned to his true form. Ultimately it is she, not him, who holds the power to decide whether he lives or dies. Although Beauty is initially a captive, she wields a great deal of power over the Beast's fate. Over time the story has been greatly simplified. After they eventually marry, Beauty's impressive lineage as the daughter of a king and a fairy is revealed. In Villeneuve's version, the Beast asks Beauty to marry him each night. The original 'tale as old as time' as we know it was penned by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740. The Whitworth - The Beauty and the Beast story we are most familiar with dates back to 18th century France.
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