Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The courtship of Mr.Lyon:
Gothic & Fairytale
- Gothic
- Setting in a castle
- Gives the audience an idea of the nature
of the plot
- Mystery and
suspense
- Beauty's
Father
- Not knowing
who his host is
- Beast
- Keeping his true
feelings secret
- Supernatural
Events
- Beast transforming into a
man
- "And then it was no longer a lion in her arms but
a man, a man with an unkempt mane of hair and,
how strange, a broken nose, such as the noses of
retired boxers, that gave him a distant, heroic
resemblance to the handsomest of all the beasts."
- Gender roles
- Beauty
- She is the protective one in the relationship
- She is the heroin, she
saves the beast
- 'Don't die, Beast! If you'll have me, I'll never leave you.'
- Dominant character
- Beast
- His physical appearance follows
the stereotype
- Isolation
- The beast is isolated from
society due to his animal form
- Entrapment
- The beast is being trapped by his
animal form
- Corruption of innocence
- Beauty's innocence corrupted
through his father wealth
- "was learning, at the end of her
adolescence, how to be a spoiled
child"
- "the one white rose she said she wanted;
the only gift she wanted, no matter how
the case went, how rich he might once
again be"
- Women in distress
- No women in distress
- Beauty's father in distress
- His car breaks down
- "But the old car stuck fast in a rut,
wouldn't budge an inch; the engine
whirred, coughed and died and he was far
from home"
- Beast in distress
- He lives alone
- Fairytale
- Gender role reversal
- The beast
- The Beast begs the Beauty to
come back and visit him
- Instead of the Beauty being scared of the Beast, the
Beast feels threatened by the idea that the Beauty
leaves him
- "It will be lonely here
without you",
- Vulnerable and
subjective towards the beauty
- 'Since you left me, I have been sick. I could
not go hunting, I found I had not the
stomach to kill the gentle beasts, I could
not eat. I am sick and I must die; but I shall
die happy because you have come to say
good-bye to me.'
- Beauty
- Shows Arrogance and materialism
- dismisses the Beast because of
his appearance
- Innocence corrupted in
the story
- Corrupted by money and the
life her father gave her in
London