Initially, I expected Beauty and the Basilisk to be very similar to the popular story of Beauty and the Beast. However, I was wrong. The plot was suspenseful and had a few major plot twists. To begin, the biggest plot twist was at the end of the story when the basilisk asked Mary to cut his head off. Once she cut his head off, a large snake came quickly out of his body. Then, she cut off the snake's head again. After the serpent was killed, he then turned into a 'beautiful youth'. Some of this plot is similar to the popular story of Beauty and the Beast, because they both start and end in similar ways. They also get married at the end of both of the stories.
The setting is somewhat vague throughout this story, but that allows your imagination to roam free while reading. When describing the palace, it simply says, "at last she came to a palace, though she had never before heard of any palace there." The author mentioned that the roses were beautiful, but they did not describe the palace, which I feel is a large missing component to the story. In my imagination, mostly because I have seen the movie Beauty in the Beast several times, I think of a dark castle that is way out in the woods. The windows are shut, there are no lights on, and there are hundreds of noises in the forest surrounding the castle. The mother is terrified, but the beauty of the rose garden calms her. If I were the author of this story, I would add more detail to the castle and a little more description of the basilisk.
Bibliography:
Josef Baudis, The Three Roses
Image information: Basilisk, by Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch
The setting is somewhat vague throughout this story, but that allows your imagination to roam free while reading. When describing the palace, it simply says, "at last she came to a palace, though she had never before heard of any palace there." The author mentioned that the roses were beautiful, but they did not describe the palace, which I feel is a large missing component to the story. In my imagination, mostly because I have seen the movie Beauty in the Beast several times, I think of a dark castle that is way out in the woods. The windows are shut, there are no lights on, and there are hundreds of noises in the forest surrounding the castle. The mother is terrified, but the beauty of the rose garden calms her. If I were the author of this story, I would add more detail to the castle and a little more description of the basilisk.
Bibliography:
Josef Baudis, The Three Roses
Image information: Basilisk, by Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch
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