SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF DISNEY & McKINLEY'S VERSIONS OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
SIMILARITIES:
Both Belle and Beauty love reading books
The Beast has been cursed to remain a beast until a woman loves him, not based on his looks
Belle and Beauty both do not completely 'fit in'
Father gets lost in the forest and Belle/Beauty saves him
There are helpers in the castle- Disney (Cogsworth, Lumiere, Mrs Potts) McKinley (Bessie, Lydia)
Beauty/Belle is the one to break the curse
There is a way to view things you most desire- water spill/mirror
The Beast is very stubborn
There is fantastic dinner service
The Beast can not hold his cutlery
The Beast free's Belle/Beauty so she can save a family member
Both tales explain how Belle/Beauty walk her horse around the grounds of the castle
The Beast and Beauty/Belle read to one another books from the library
Beast will eventually die if Belle/Beauty does not return to him
Spell is broken when Belle/Beauty says 'I love you'
DIFFERENCES:
Name of main character: Disney- Belle, McKinley- Beauty
Characteristic of Belle in Disney- Inventors daughter, not rich
Characteristic of Belle in McKinley- Merchants daughter, quite rich
In Disney Belle is already beautiful, in McKinley, she is described as 'ordinary looking' who develops into a beautiful woman
In Disney Belle has a love interest from Gaston
The name of the horse is different in both tales: Disney- Phillipe, McKinley-
In Disney, the Beast encounters father in the lounge room around a fire, whereas in Mckinley's version, the Beast finds father in a garden picking a rose for Beauty
In Disney there are songs and singing
In Disney's version, Belle does not have any siblings, in McKinley's version, she has two sisters
In the Disney version, there is no explanation that they had lived anywhere but the village before hand, whereas in McKinley's version, the family lived in the city before moving to the countryside
The 'helpers' come in different forms- Disney (clock, candlestick, wardrobe, teapot), McKinley (Wind)
In McKinley's version the Beast is lovely to Beauty from the start, whereas in Disney's version, the Beast is rude and has an angry temper
The time frame that the Beast has been cursed is different- Disney (10 years), McKinley (200 years)
How the Beast almost dies- Disney (Gaston almost kills the Beast), McKinley (the last petal almost falls)