"The essence of the Gothic lies in the crossing of boundaries."

T1 – Physical boundary between the human and the animal, TBC

Characters who cross this boundary have freedom from oppression.

TTB – Beauty entrapped by physical form as woman, seen as property by father. Subject to capitalist greed as a result, Marxism and Feminism hand in hand.

Gains “liberty”, freedom from oppression by embracing animal sexuality. Gothic opposition with “nakedness” and “unnatural” to express boundary, Berger “To be naked is to be oneself”.

Human world is imprinted on her, makes transformation painful, horrifying “ripping off skins after successive skins”, Wisker “Dysmorph-mythic”.
Freedom implied by materialistic “earrings” into “drops”, “nascent patina of shining hairs” suggests embracing sexuality allows women not to be objects of sex. Contrasts Stoker’s brides, embracing sexuality defined entirely by sex, one dimensional “like an animal”.

Framed more positively than other extrapolation of Beaumont’s tale TCOML, Beauty does not physically transform and thus only transfers ownership with marriage, ending does not challenge moral of tale while TTB does.

T1 – Physical boundary between the human and the animal, D

T1 – Physical boundary between the human and the animal, AO4

T2 - Social Constructs that preserve a boundary between men and women, TBC