Jessica Carbine 30 day challenge 14-20

Jessica Carbine

Days 14-20 Mar, 1-7 Thursday-Wednesday

This week I'll be halfway though the thirty day challenge and this weeks dreams have actually been pretty good. I saw Into The Woods Thursday and really enjoyed it so I think that sparked my imagination. Not all of them were really noteworthy but I had three that I enjoyed and wrote more than usual about. The most interesting of them was a dark reinterpretation of Beauty and the Beast, just to be clear it wasn't the Disney version it was just my imagining of the old fairy tale. I've been on a fairy tale kick lately, reading allot of story book retellings' such as Beauty, East and The Goose Girl series not to mention the play I went to, so it's no wonder I dreamed this.
One more thing before I start, I was't in this dream, it wasn't about me at all, which is't uncommon for me I'm not in most of my dreams.

In the dream Beauty was to late to save the Beast from his curse. By the time she got there the flower had long ago died and the Beast had been driven mad by the hopelessness and despair of having to remain a beast forever alone.

My dream began much like the old story Beauty lives with the Beast and he tries to court her but the castle is not beautiful its dark and grey and its falling apart there is also feeling of foreboding so she doesn't fall for his tricks. Because the spell can no longer be broken the servants who were invisible in the old story, are free to show themselves to Beauty and she befriends them.
One Day while Beauty is exploring because the castle is falling apart she falls through the floor to the deepest part of the castle. There she finds a dungeon filled with young women like herself who couldn't break the curse and tried to escape, so the beast locked them up. The servants find Beauty and help her escape but she decides she can't leave the women of the servants behind so she returns to the castle.
Once Beauty is back at the castle she confronts the Beast and tries to talk to him but he attacks and tries to kill her for escaping. The Beast sets his own castle on fire and Beauty and the Beast fight while the castle is burning around them. Beauty kills the Beast out of self defense and is able to set everyone free before the castle burns down. I woke up as she was journeying back to her home.