I wonder why Fairy Tales always end in happily ever after and true love forever. At this point in my life I realize these two things do not exist outside of Walt Disney’s little dream world. Love fades as quickly as it comes, marriages dissolve in messy divorces, and both men and women are disappointed by the lies spun by the Grimms brothers and Disney. In the real world Cinderella would have remained a servant while her eldest step-sister married the prince. If you want to be optimistic Cinderella might have married him only to realize he only wanted a wife for the sole purpose of giving him an heir to the throne. Sleeping Beauty would have stayed in her coma, Ariel would have never regained her voice, and Beauty would realize that life in a secluded castle is not a dream but a nightmare.
I want to give a “new message” to the story “The Tigers Bride.” This story loosely mirrors Beauty and Beast. I want to change the ending to make it more realistic. In my new ending the girl would resent the fact that she is turned into a beast and cannot go back to her old life. Instead she has to live as an uncivilized animal. She would never be able to show herself into society again and would be secluded in the castle with only the Beast and the valet for company. She would come to resent this arrangement because she would feel trapped. She would get sick of the Beasts company (which would eventually happen when you are stuck together for a long period of time) and eventually come to resent him because she would see him as the reason for her present unhappiness. She would maybe runaway but would have to live alone in the wild, or she would remain and be miserable at the castle and eventually die of boredom or unhappiness (anything to get away.)
This is how I would make the story more realistic and more fitting for what happens in real life. There are many other options to make the story more realistic. Mind you I chose the darkest and most dramatic to make a point about Fairy Tales not turning out with a “happy ending.”
