Tales Across Cultures: Beauty and the Beast
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Tales Across Cultures: Beauty and the Beast
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Our theme for August is “Tales Across Cultures” – a month-long dive into stories that transcend place and exist in multiple cultures throughout the years. Today’s episode, we’re revisiting a tale from an earlier theme, a tale of finding love in unexpected places: Beauty and the Beast. She’s beautiful. He’s monstrous. She’s the youngest daughter, selfless and gentle. He’s cursed. Horned. Hidden away. But somehow they fall in love. Or so the story goes. We know the tale of Beauty and the Beast. A castle. A rose. A girl in golden gowns. And a beast who’s more than he seems. But where did this story come from? Is it about love? Or captivity? Is it a romance? Or a warning? Versions of this tale appear everywhere—from French salons to West African folktales, to Disney soundtracks and Stockholm syndrome debates. Because this isn’t just a story about a beast who becomes a man. It’s a story about how we learn to see differently. And sometimes… how we learn to love what scares us.