![]() ![]() ![]() The original interpretations of it are distasteful. ![]() Originally one of what the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim called “animal groom” stories, intended to reassure virginal brides about sex, Beauty and the Beast has itself been repeatedly transformed. United, the body and soul produce a child, Pleasure.Įffectively, this is the plot of Beauty and the Beast, written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740, and retold countless times under other names, from the Norwegian fairytale “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” to Sarah J Maas’s bestselling 2015 fantasy novel A Court of Thorns and Roses. She wins through, and Cupid begs, successfully, for her to be made immortal. The unhappy Psyche must win him back by going on a quest to placate the jealous Venus. When she is persuaded to kill him, the candle she smuggles in to the room reveals her lover to be Cupid, who flees, angered by Psyche’s betrayal. ![]()
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