University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Supervised Undergraduate Student Research Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects and Creative Work Spring 4-2006 The Development of Beauty and Beast Through 31 Revisions of the Tale Beth Ellen Reith University of Tennessee-Knoxville Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj Recommended Citation Reith, Beth Ellen, "The Development of Beauty and Beast Through 31 Revisions of the Tale" (2006). Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj/1004 This is brought to you for free and open access by the Supervised Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Work at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Development of Beauty and Beast Through 31 Revisions of the Tale Beth Reith April 28, 2006 Faculty Advisor: Honor Wallace University of Tennessee Senior Honors Project Reith 2 Abstract Although most are familiar with the Disney retelling of Beauty and the Beast, there are many other versions. These versions go all the way back to the 2nd century AD and all the way forward to the present. In these tales there is a trend from individuality and differences in the beginning, to uniformity in the middle, to a return to unique individual tales. This trend can be seen in the development of the characters of Beauty and Beast throughout the revisions, and by how the transformation at the end is portrayed.