"Alas, a thousand pities any thing so good-natured should be so ugly."
Agreeing to go to the Beast’s palace, Beauty is sure he would eat her, as what else can be expected from a beast? But her expectations do not come true, and the Beast appears to give her all possible pleasures and comforts. After their talks, she finds how really good-natured he is, but still he looks so ugly and monstrous that these two features do not get into one whole thing in Beauty’s head. Only at the end she understands that it is only the interior world of a person that matters.
“It is neither wit nor a fine person in a husband, that makes a woman happy; but virtue, sweetness of temper, and complaisance”
Finding out that both her sisters are married, Beauty feels happy for them, but when she learns that they are far away from being happy, notwithstanding that the husband of one is really handsome, and the husband of other is really witty, Beauty understands how mistaken she was when refused Beast to become his wife. She intuits that the Beast has all the valuable qualifications which can make a woman really happy.
“I had rather die myself than give you the least uneasiness”
Going to the Beast’s palace, Beauty was expecting nothing but cruelty and death, but she found their completely different things: humanity and kindness. The Beast made everything possible to make Beauty happy, and does not hesitate when she asks to let her go for a week to visit her father. He says that he would do everything not to make her miserable, and he always keeps his word.
