Belle In The Film Beauty And The Beast

Courageous characters are shown protecting others instead of worrying about themselves, like when Belle takes her father’s place. In “Beauty and the Beast”, Beauty goes to Beast’s castle in place of her father when he is sentenced to death. She refuses to go home and leave him even when he tells her to, saying: “You can’t keep me from following you.” (de Beaumont 36). Even in less deadly situations, she thinks of others first. Her first wish when she sees her room is to see her father again. At the end of the story, she is even willing to leave her father, who we’ve just seen she is extremely devoted to, behind to save Beast’s life (de Beaumont 41). Throughout the story, she puts the needs of others before

In Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Belle is misunderstood, kind, and perceptive. Belle is shown to be misunderstood when she is walking through the streets, reading her book. The other townspeople remark, “that girl is strange, no question” (Beauty and the Beast). With the simple act of reading a book, the townspeople are quick to cast her out. At no point do any of the townspeople learn more about her to fully understand her. Even though she is misunderstood, Belle is also kind. After being taken prisoner at the castle, she helps the beast relearn several basic life skills, like how to use utensils and how to read. After reading him Romeo and Juliet, Beast makes the request that she read it again. She turns it back on him and asks him to read. When he hesitates, she realizes that he has forgotten how, and she says, “Here, let me help you” (Beauty and the Beast). Through helping him instead of questioning or taunting him, she shows the kind and

Seger states that in fairy tales "an old woman, a dwarf, a witch, or a wizard helps the hero . . . The hero achieves the goal because of this help, and because the hero is receptive to what this person has to give" (173). Conversely, Beast is helped by the very damsel he imprisons. Belle is a normal woman, not a witch or a wizard; she has no special powers and is not old or dwarfish in any way. Also, Beast is extremely reluctant to accept any help from her. In the Disney version of the story, Belle tries to teach Beast how to control his temper and be more compassionate and loving. Beast is not receptive at all to this help throughout the story, but still manages to defeat the curse left on him by a self revelation. He decides after Belle's departure from his castle to learn to love and be kindhearted. Although her help may have had an impact on his transformation, it was the mere presence of her and his own self conscience that ultimately helped him conquer his relentless curse. This is quite different from what Seger illustrates in her hero myth theory.

These films have many characters that share characteristics along with the same role for their own films. First, there’s the Beast and Edward. They were the ones that everyone would look at and consider wicked; in reality people are just basing this off their looks. Even though the Beast started off being monstrous, Belle had changed him to be genuine to everyone. He hadn’t even done anything wrong when the villagers attacked. Gaston had only made them believe the Beast could do

Belle is extremely important to original story, and the movie. Maybe you are asking yourself why? Well, she is for surely one of the two main characters, the other being the beast whom she is supposed to fall in love with to make him become a man again. Especially in the original book version, it is more focused on Belle because they leave out the “evil sisters”. She still has bitter

In Beauty and the Beast, when Belle read books, she was seen as the weird girl who reads and does not like Gaston, when everyone else in town loved him. She was seen as the thinker, which seemingly no one wanted a wife with a strong

“Beauty and The Beast” is a classic well known romantic Disney movie that depicts the gender role of men and women in society. The film is based upon a smart young female protagonist named Belle who is imprisoned by a self-centered young prince after he has been turned into a beast. They both learn to love each other in the end and throughout the film there are several examples shown portraying the roles of gender. In the film the main characters Gaston and the Beast portray themselves as rude, conceited and more important than the woman even though the main character Belle is a woman whom is considered odd, yet smart, and unrelated to most women in society.

The story of beauty and the beast is being told by two fairies and a rabbit. This created a double fourth wall for the audience. Beauty (Katherine Carr), and The Beast (Matt Carter) were oblivious of the fairies and their meddling. Not once did the characters in the tale of beauty and the beast break the fourth wall with the fairies or the audience. But, the fairies did continuously break the forth wall with the audience, asking our opinions and talking directly to members of the audience. A strange but, upbeat technique, I found it made the play more enjoyable.

For instance, Belle is the only character in the town to wear blue. Almost every other character wore red. This leads the viewer to believe that Belle is the only good person in a group of mean and often misogynistic people. Another aspect of the film is the use of seasons. The film goes through Fall, Winter, and ends in Spring. The depicted seasons put the viewer in different moods, and let them know what is going on. For example, Spring is often associated with rebirth, so it is with Beauty and the Beast. The Beast nearly dies until Belle tells him she loves him, and he is turned back into a prince as the curse is broken. This scene, paired with the change from Winter to Spring, shows that the Beast is a changed man, and no longer a “beast.” Clothes played another important role in the film, as they showed the general temperament and disposition of a character. Belle, in the beginning of the film, wore a very plain, blue dress. This showed that she didn’t get much enjoyment from having nice things and was happy enough with just her collection of books. The Beast’s clothes showed much more about his character. When he is first shown, the Beast wears an old pair of frayed pants, and a cloak to keep warm. Later, when he learns to control his temper and act more like a human being, we see him in a cloak and a white shirt, then a smart jacket and trousers. When he has finally won Belle’s love, he has a

“Belle is smart, incredibly independent and wants to see the world. She is a young woman who speaks her mind and has all these ambitions,” said Condon. “In the 1991 film, Belle was a real breakthrough among Disney heroines. However, a lot has happened in 25 years. We wanted to make sure that Belle remains a feminist figure and someone who looks to the future.”

When someone thinks of an honourable individual, some things that come to mind may be their demeanour, judgement, and intelligence. The traits demonstrated by Belle from Beauty and the Beast all show her to be an honourable character. Belle’s caring attitude, valiance, and her ability to see the beauty within are all reasons why she deserves the title of an honorary guest. At heart, Belle’s caring personality is one of the many traits that make her a commendable and honourable character. Belle has proven to be caring and warm hearted in many ways.

I believe that I most relate to Belle from Beauty and the Beast (2017). We are strong-minded, inventive, intelligent, and an odd-one-out in her community.

Belle was kind to the Beast, and then she found her prince. It took courage to look into the eyes of someone that took away everything and see the good.

In Beauty and the Beast, multiple morals were being illustrated in the first scenes of the movie and many of them were subjected to Belle herself. Quick remarks, under the breath comments and drama made by the townspeople could be somewhat feministic. Belle being the most beauty and quite intelligent character, she is bound to be set in many situation where she is the center of attention. One scene where Belle was subjected by her gender was when Gaston planned a marriage without her knowing and invited all the townspeople to come. He then gave her a mental imagine of how there life could be like if they got married.

In Disney’s version, Belle’s father is called Maurice and to further support the lesson of the story we are presented with the typical self-centered villain, who is looking for a maiden as fair as he, Gaston. Disney’s Beast was once a selfish and whiny prince who refused shelter to a helpless woman and in the original story the Beast is cursed because he rejected his governess. However, both are cursed to live in the solitude of their own castles and wait for the chance of freedom. The character of Belle has the same qualities in both stories. She is kind, thoughtful and caring. She finds happiness in the simple things in life including reading.