La Belle et la Bete: Beauty and the Beast as a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche

One of the more significant qualities of the myth is that its stories and legends have definitely transcended time. According to Classical Mythology, "Perhaps the most remarkable attribute of classical mythology is its persistence." (997) The universality of the Greek and Roman myths is perhaps best shown in how present they are in today's fairy-tales. A prime example of this is the connection between the myth of Cupid and Psyche and the old French fairy-tale of …

…The clouds are mostly dark and ominous. The only white wisps of clouds roll into the black ones and very closely mirror that steam that came from the Beast when had killed something or was agitated. The couple dissolves into darkness and the movie ends. In neither case is the knowledge of the "beast's" true appearance, or the reality of who he is, a good thing, and in both cases this reality is a letdown.