Reading Notes: Europa's Fairy Book, Reading A

 

("Beauty and the Beast" by John Batten via Myth UN-Textbook)

The story that I chose to focus my reading notes on for this post is “Beauty and the Beast” by Joseph Jacobs (1916). This story caught my eye because I thought it would be interesting to read a story of something I am familiar with and to see how it differs from the story that I am used to. This story definitely differed from the version of “Beauty and the Beast” that I am familiar with, but I did a little extra research and found that there are so many different versions of the story with all of them differing in many details. This story reminded me of another story that I read this semester called “The Three Roses” because in both cases, the parents picked a rose from where they weren’t allowed to and had to give up their daughters in exchange. Then at the end the creature, the beast in “Beauty and the Beast” and the basilisk in “The Three Roses, ended up turning into a handsome prince or youth. The formatting of the paragraphs in this story is typical of what you see in stories that include dialogue. With a different character is speaking, their sentence will begin on a new line while if the same person is continuously speaking, then it continues in one paragraph. The language used in the story is a little older as you can tell from some of the words that the beast uses. Overall, this story was interesting to read as it showed how stories with the same origin can differ over the years.

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