When we heard people said the word "Beast", the first image that came into our head is always about some monster-type creature that has the ugly-configuration and evil-mind. And in the reality, we always using the word "Beast" referring to someone who is strong and well-built, and this word is never used to descrip a person who has good manner. But after reading some different versions of "Beauty and Beast", I found a common thing between those "Beasts" in the different versions; the characteristics of those beasts is not samething as what we thought they should be, but those beasts are very benevolent, be very helpful to their women, and contained a lot good human-beings. For example, in Beaumont's "Beauty and the Beast", the sisters of Beauty were always jealous at her prettiness and tried to set her up at any chance they got, but the Beast is the one who is always tried at his best to satisfy the Beauty and he can even to sacrifice himself in order to make the Beauty happier in her life. In this point, the Beast in the story represented more humanity than the humans.
Also I found another point between the stories that interested me; the difference between the way that Beast chasing for a girl and the way human "chasing" for a girl. In the "Beauty and the Beast", that Beast is doing at all his best to achieve that little Beauty, but in the story "The Swan Maiden", that man wanted to marry the swan so bad and he stole the swan's attire and "kidnapped" her and forced her to be his wife. The life is fair, so eventually, the Beauty was got affected by everything the Beast had done and they live happy together, but the swan which was "stole" by that man eventually flew away and left that man lonely forever.
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