Brumley, Jared Writing 121 Mr. Rodger March, Beauty and The Beast Beauty and The Beast, is a classic for most children in America. This film has a stunning storyline, mixed in with great music, and a classic love tale. Looking deeper into a gender based lens you’ll see that many of the roles within the cast have many traits that you’d expect out of a Disney film. The main characters are the finest examples of this. The trait of being gentle and kind as a female drives this story even further with being male, being portrayed as a large, strong, angry person. The traits of being feminine is the driving force of Belle being a person being full of kindness, and knowledge. An excellent example of this would be Belle, the main …show more content…
This makes people to believe in the beginning of the film that she’s a housewife. Later she desires to explore the world without a manly figure beside her. Gaston tries to exploit this by saying “she’s the most beautiful girl in the village, that makes her the best.” Gaston uses his manly statue against Belle, even though Belle isn’t his type. Gaston is a desirable athletic influenced man. Throughout the story Gaston wants to save her around every corner, but he doesn't realize that she doesn't want him because of his athletic nature even Gaston's assistant even says it. But Gaston keeps going and tries to connect with her. Throughout the film we see Belle trying to connect with the Beast, after attempt after attempt she never gave up to find out what the Beast’s real personality was. After the Beast was convinced by Bell that she would rescue her dad, then come and help him. the Beast isn't considered a soft hearted person, that's what most people think of him. most of the men in the story or kind to their wives, but the Beast isn’t kind to other people. but the Beast is only trying to protect Belle but at the exact same time trying not to hurt other people. Belle finally realizes this at the end of the story when Gaston is trying to kill the Beast. To prove that he's worthy for Belle. It's not only the Beast that has a dark past, it's also with Belle too. they both share the the same emotional experience together when they go to their birthplaces. Belle slowly accepting that that the Beast has a life of solitude, and also the Beast is realizing that Belle is slowly gaining her trust for him. Using this information we can decipher that the Beast isn't a cold hearted animal like people believe he is. he only needs someone to look after him, and someone who appreciates what he does as a person. I'm going back to the Rose slowly losing pedals.
feminine things like jewel. She pines after the beautiful necklace she saw at the fair, in order
Lanval, one of Marie's twelve lays that survived, establishes the two different types of women mentioned in the introduction. Lanval, a lonely knight of King Arthur's court, falls in love with a beautiful, rich, and charming fairy in the woods. This character represents the virtuous and perfect things in which society bestows upon the women of this time, giving great power to beauty and fortune. Although these charac...
The princess was more assertive and the prince was equally as sensitive as the princess. Belle was shown as independent more often than the prince, but she also was shown as very fearful. Similarly, the prince portrayed stereotypically feminine characteristics, such as showing emotion. This princess was the first to show very high
When Elphaba was born, she was expected to be a curse to her family. For example, her father, Frex said, "It's the devil," and "The devil is coming" (Maguire 10). He is very unhappy, cruel, and neglected her ever since birth because of her physical appearance. She gets the center of attention from everyone because of uncommon characteristics such as having green skin, allergenic to water, and having razor-sharp teeth. Even though she portrays a role being the Wicked Witch of the West, she can still be a caring and loving person. When she was a college student, she deeply cares about all animals in the land of Oz and is willing to endanger herself to save them. She saved a monkey from drowning in the w...
Despite the tremendous steps that have been taken towards reaching gender equality, mainstream media contradicts these accomplishments with stereotypes of women present in Walt Disney movies. These unrealistic stereotypes may be detrimental to children because they grow up with a distorted view of how men and women interact. Disney animated films assign gender roles to characters, and young children should not be exposed to inequality between genders because its effect on their view of what is right and wrong in society is harmful to their future. According to Disney films, it is important for women to achieve the stereotypical characteristics of a woman, such as maintaining their beauty to capture a man, and being weak and less educated than male characters. The women in Disney movies are always beautiful, which helps them to find a man.
In beauty and the beast we have for the first time a female character that is different and “ Belle likes herself and trust her own judgment” (Henks, Umble and Smith 1996, p. 237), and refuse what was planned for her. Belle was the first character not to fall in love from the first sight and occupies almost 80 percent of the movie. She has a better control on her life and choose her own destiny and she was powerful enough to save her father’s and the beast’s lives. And this relation represents a power-with the male character. The problem was that at the end, Belle ended up being one typical princess and being again the perfect girl that live with her prince happily ever
In the beginning of the movie, Gaston is introduced as the perfect guy in the village. Girls sing, “Look there he goes, isn’t he dreamy? Monsieur Gaston, oh he’s so cute.” Gaston has his heart set on Belle and does all he can to convince her to marry him. Gaston believes that Belle would be a great wife based purely on her beauty, but Belle is not as shallow as Gaston and she follows her intuition and doesn’t marry him because she doesn’t care about appearances, but more about their inner beauty. “One tendency unites them all..”(Emerson 77), says Emerson. Every other girl in the village would have done anything to to be with him, wh...
Blanche consider herself as a Southern Belle, despite the changing of her status. Her life changed when she is facing financial difficulty and she has to pay for the cost of the funeral of her relatives.Blanche has lost Belle Reve
Beauty and the Beast centers on Belle who is desired by handsome but egocentric Gaston. Belle’s father, disappears on a journey to a local fair and becomes captive of the Beast. Belle bravely offers herself as an alternative hostage and Beast accepts. As his prisoner, Belle befriends Beast’s household of Enchanted Objects, all talking, walking furniture and kitchen utensils. Belle learns about how the Beast and his staff are all the victims of a witch’s curse that has transformed them. They fall in love during her hostage. In the end, Bella’s love reverses the spell on the Beast.
Disney has portrayed women in movies by the use of animation characters for over a century since the 1900s. There has been a very big change since the early 1900’s to modern day in Disney’s depiction of the personalities of the women, their attitudes and ideologies towards men, and the way they are portrayed in the movies. This progression has had a distinct development, from passive damsels in distress in need of the help of men, to being superheroes. Therefore, the evolution of women in Disney movies will be analyzed through the use of university level feminist essays, as well as a research paper written about gender roles in Disney animation. The evolution will also be analyzed through examination of the clips of the movies themselves.
She is fond of luxury and high society, mainly due to the fact that she can remember when her family was wealthy. She is also a “hopeless romantic”, as evidenced by her story she tells her sisters for amusement that revolves around love and marriage. " ’Poor girls don't stand any chance, Belle says, unless they put themselves forward,’ sighed Meg.” Meg truly just wants to marry rich, and live the rest of her life in high society. She eventually, however, falls in love with John Brookes, a man who is as poor as she is.
From the beginning Belle’s characteristics reveals anti-social behaviors perhaps even a personality disorder. Belle keeps to herself reading alone and hardly any interaction with the villagers
She has a "natural elegance" and a mixture of "innocence and crudity," and yet, as seen in her response, her character proves to go beyond the boundaries of this character type of the natural beauty (1564 and 1574)."
Disney promotes sexisim by forcing young girls to live in a patriarchal world. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The little mermaid, Aladdin, and Snow White are all examples of popular Disney movies that encourage young viewers that they need a man to save the day. Yes, it’s true that there are recent movies such as Moana and Frozen that prove otherwise, but how long will it take to completely get over the fact that women are mainly viewed as secondary citizens compared to the men? There are countless examples of how Disney movies influence this theme, and how much the female characters’ actions, ideas and thoughts are not included in a Disney movie.
Social factors have always encouraged the idea that men embody masculinity and women embody femininity and, thus, certain gender-norms are expected accordingly. In the past, such expectations were traditional and to go against them was frowned upon by the general public. Contemporarily speaking, there is more freedom to avail oneself of today than there was once upon a time. Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s fairytale adaptation of ‘Beauty and The Beast’ was published in 1740. During this time, men and women were compelled by the social conventions associated with their gender. When analyzing the literary work, the reader can grasp what gender roles are eminent in the characters identity and motives. By exploring the choice of language being