At any time in the brain, messages travel from neuron to neuron, jumping from terminal branches to dendrites and accelerating axons to create thoughts and ideas that fuel emotions and actions. Fairy tales become messages and float from neuron to neuron in the brain to generate images of unrealistic worlds filled with castles guarded by dragons, Fairy Mothers who grant your every wish, and genies who come out of lamps only to cause more trouble or fulfill destiny. Authors designed fairy tales to remove the reader from everyday rituals to allow them to explore unattainable worlds and experience the journey of becoming a rich, desirable prince who saves the damsel in distress or becoming a poor girl who helps a beast transform again. in a prince for his acquiescence in the marriage. Beauty and the Beast uses many psychological strategies to allow the reader to understand how money, pain, and appearances can influence the outcome of a situation due to the character's way of thinking. Fairy tale authors manipulate the mind using psychological strategies to show how impulses and desires centered on wealth, power, guilt, fear, and appearances motivate characters' actions and influence emotions to amplify the theme of the story. Books upon books fill children's bookstore shelves, and those books contain scenes of knights slaying dragons, discovering riches and treasures, and the idea that any individual can be captured and transformed into a rich and powerful individual. Freud introduces the idea of ​​wish fulfillment as immature and "that all dreams are actually children's dreams (Freud 533)" because most dreams contain no substance except a tiny, materialistic desire to be rich and powerful ... half of paper...... story, leave a mark like the idea that appearances should not matter if a person's heart is beautiful. Individuals must learn to control their mind to render desires and “impulses inoperative (Freud 422)” or meaningless in their lives. Beauty and the Beast shows how love can overcome an obstacle of the mind such as facing a disgusting image and how authors can use mental strategies to amplify the human mind's numerous errors of perception. Works Cited Dawkins, Clinton Richard. The selfish gene. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1976. Print.Freud, Sigmund. The main works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 1955. Print.Leprince De Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie. "Beauty and the Beast." Comp. Maria Tartar. Classic fairy tales commented. New York: Norton, 2002. 58-78. Press.