The most important aspect to take away from fairy
tales is the journey and transformation that the hero (or
heroine) must achieve. Without this
element, the fairy tale has practically no moral for us to learn from.
The idea that fairy tales are also manifestations
and representations of the collective unconscious is another element important
to Jungian psychoanalysis. The formulas
and patterns that fairy tales use is not by coincidence, but because those
telling the tales all have something in common to share: the human
experience. This underlying part of
mankind cannot be shaken off, such as the concept of having a mother or
parents, as well as the “coming of age” story.
The Beast's Transformation in Beauty in the Beast. Without his transformation, their would be no physical or obvious evidence of Belle's effect on him.
Furthermore, archetypes resonate heavily in
Jungian theories, with such power given to numbers like 1 (unity), 3 (balance
and tension), and 4 (perfect balance).
The presence of alchemy and metal is also said to tell us something
about the fairy tale deeper than what is in the surface. Since alchemy focuses on the transformation of
something into gold, the correlation between gold objects and colors associated
with the process (red, black, white) put more significance onto the hero’s
transformation.
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