Reading Notes: Beauty and the Basilisk

 Fairy Tale: Beauty and the Basilisk

The Three Roses 


I chose this story because after reading several, this one was truly my favorite. Beauty and the Beast  was my favorite fairy tale  story when I was a little girl. I loved Belle because she was a reader and always and I was the exact same way! We both always had our heads in books! I really enjoyed the different take on this story of the beast being a basilisk. It was such a fun read! Here are my notes from the story!


Characters: Mother, three daughters, basilisk, the prince


Plot: A mother had three young daughters and two of the daughters were very greedy and wanted their mother to buy them everything their hearts desired. The third daughter only wanted a rose. When the mother went to the market, it became nightfall and she wandered into a forest. She came eye to eye with a basilisk who demanded the mother’s daughters in exchange for her life. The mother brought her three daughters to the palace and the least greedy daughter Mary nursed the basilisk every day. Finally the basilisk asked her to cut his head off and when she did, he became a handsome prince. Then the two got married and lived happily ever after in the palace.


Plot Twists: Mary cut the basilisks head off twice and then he became a prince, the mother wandering into the rose garden and all the roses were smiling at her, it was the mother who wandered into the forest


Details: roses with smiling faces, Mary wanted to be brought three roses, the beast was a serpent, sword was used to cut the basilisk’s head off twice, the mother couldn’t remember things because she was very old


Things that were changed from the original:

  1. There were three daughters versus one daughter, Belle

  2. Belle lived with her father not her mother

  3. Belle’s father got lost in the woods and had to give his daughter away to pay for his own life

  4. There was a beast versus a basilisk

  5. There was no talking furniture just smiling roses

  6. Belle fell in love with the beast to break the curse, not cut his head off

  7. The rose in the original signified the curse whereas here it was a gift to Mary

  8. Mary wanted to live at the castle unlike Belle who felt like a prisoner

  9. The basilisk and Mary barely got to know each other before the curse was broken

  10. The daughters were greedy unlike Belle who just wanted to read books


Bibliography:


Title: Beauty and the Basilisk-The Three Roses

Author: Josef Baudis



(The Basilisk and the weasel by Marcus Gheeraerts: Wikipedia)


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