Beast”. In the following response, I aim to deconstruct by comparing and contrasting both the 1891 Italian fairy tale, The Pig King, written by Giovanni Francesco Straparola, and Disney’s 1991 animated film, Beauty and the Beast, and how both the Beast and the Pig Prince were transformed by the kindness and love of a virtuous woman. An enduring curiosity of Straparola’s work resides in how the sign, the pig skin, expound upon the reversal of gender roles, good will and nature of women and the acceptance…
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