Popular Culture Review Vol. 1, December 1989 | Page 28

longer. Beauty returns to her home, to the joy o f her father and the
envy o f her sisters. The jealous sisters resolve to keep Beauty from
returning to the palace, but Beauty escapes to find her Beast dying
in the garden. She runs to him, confesses her love, and kisses him.
At this moment the Beast is transformed into a handsome prince
and the two are united in mutual love.
This fairytale is similar to the ancient Greek myth o f the
marriage of Cupid and Psyche. The similarities lie in the recurring
themes o f envy and the scorn o