Daughter’s Individuation Quest: An Exploration of Three Fairy Tales Part 2 of 3

In Beauty and the Beast, the father gets lost in the forest. He suddenly sees a seemingly uninhabited mansion and enters, but it is the castle of the Beast. Wanting to please Belle, his daughter, the father plucks a rose. This rose is the dearest thing the Beast has in the world. In exchange for the father’s freedom, the Beast demands that Belle come and live with him.