http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/beauty-and-the-beast Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:44:44 -0400 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:44:44 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/359/beauty-and-the-beast-and-the-tigers-bride-to-be-or-not-to-be-a-beast By Iulia O. Basu-Zharku - Madame de Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast and Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride delve into the nature of men and women and the relationships between them by exploring and analyzing the motifs of wildness and civilization. Thus, women are presented as the civilizing agent in the relationship with men, who succumb to their "beastliness," giving way to their animalistic, wild side in Madame de Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast, while in Angela Carter’s The Tiger’s Bride, the reverse is true—women are the ones who open up to the beast in them in relationship with men, instead... Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:56 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/359/beauty-and-the-beast-and-the-tigers-bride-to-be-or-not-to-be-a-beast