When her skin was burned, the husband went to find his wife no matter what because he wanted to show his princess to the town and reunite with her. In the 1947 film "La Belle et la bête" by Jean Cocteau, it placed a strong importance on the wanted quality of a woman. On the other hand, in Angela Carter 's "The Tiger 's Bride," with it 's intriguing enjoyable reversal of the usual ending of the story as the female protagonist joins her husband by transforming to the animal state herself. The different versions consist of many personalities and characters which show that looks are not everything and how individuals are treated differently because of how they look. Throughout all these different versions, the stories show a transformation from two opposite individuals, how they find that outer beauty is not as important as inner …show more content…
We see foreshadowers early in the story. The rose that the female protagonist gives her father when she leaves him represents her pure self because it is white and beautiful. When she cuts her finger on it and hands it to him "all smeared with blood," she foreshadows her own loss of virginity and her transformation from whiteness, which means the absence of desire and life, to bloody redness, the characterization of those things. The female protagonist also refers to the Beast as a "clawed magus," magus meaning an ancient priest with supernatural powers. Although she is afraid of him, the female protagonist has some sense that he has the control to transform her. It is not just anything sexual that causes the narrator to transform. It is her desire and willingness to be sexual. When she first refuses to undress in front of The Beast, she harms him. She does not know at the time that his wish to see her is not that and nothing more than somebody who watches for sexual pleasure. He also deeply wants her to accept him. If The Beast were a mere voyeur, he would accept the female protagonist 's offer to lift up her skirts for him while hiding her face. He is not interested in the female protagonist 's body so much as he is in her true, animal