Friday, March 14, 2014

What is the central conflict in "Beauty"?

The central conflict in Beauty is twofold:


Beauty has to go live with the Beast in order to save her father, and confronts the fear that she will never see her family again and adapt to life with the Beast (which turns out to not be so terrible after all once she falls in love with him) and also


the Beast must confront his own demons and prove his love to Beauty in order to get her to stay. She begins the journey to the castle to save her father, but ultimately also saves the Beast.

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