Monday, March 18, 2013

Cocteau's "La Belle et la Bete"

Write about two of the following or bring up your own topics:

1. The relationship between Belle and her father, Belle and Avenant, Belle and the Beast
2. The father picks a rose which provokes the Beast's fury - comment.
3. The opposition between the world of the family and that of the Beast.
4. The opposition between Avenant and the Beast
5. The Beast's anxiety when he finds Belle after hunting
6. The metaphoric worth of the tears transformed into diamonds and the pearl necklace that becomes an old burnt rope
7. The symbolic worth of these objects: the arrow, the rose, the mirror, the glove, the golden key, the horse (Magnificent), the Pavillon of Diana
8. The ending: Avenant's fate, the Beast's transformation, Belle's state of being.

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