Will you accept this rose?Symbols don't get more symbolic than the enchanted rose, which sits under glass in the Beast's Unhappy Place and generally acts as the ticking clock on his cure. It will b...

The mirror is the Beast's only window to the outside world, the only way he has to check up on things without lynch mobs forming to kill him. (Turns out, they do that anyway, but never mind that.)...

Beauty and the Beast has a lot to say about our inner worlds and the way our true selves sometimes disappear beneath the surface impression. Gaston, for example, is beloved because he's superficial...

The "I Want" song became a staple of Broadway productions in the 1930s and '40s: it's basically just the main character singing about his or her desires as a way of setting up the story. It's a sli...