The Feminist View: Beauty And The Beast

The Feminist View: Beauty and the Beast The Disney film Beauty and the Beast was released in the year 1991 the film is a well known story that portrays the love between two completely different characters. This motion picture takes place in the mid 1700’s in a quaint French Town and focuses on the crazy inventor’ daughter Belle, who does not fall under what is expected from a young woman at the time. The film portrays Belle with a peculiar character, with an interest in her education and her nose always stuck in a book. In the mid 1800’s, feminism did not play a role in the culture; women were expected to stay at home, have little or less amount of education in comparison to men and as the most beautiful girl in town she’s expected to marry
Woman had aa lower class and were not as high power which led them to not a great importance and although Belle spoke for herself and did not let no one get her down she was still subjected to verbal abuse from her then “true love” towards the end of the movie. We get the idea of love being made up of violence the fixed by the acts of a normal person, the Beast did not go out of his way to prove to Belle that he was any different. Only then do we realize that this love was created by being hurt, that if you stay being nice you will get the guy to love you in the end. That is no way for a child to view life, you should be treated with respect in the beginning of any relationship. As Beauty and the Beast does represent giving children false hope in the near future of their life. Belle did not want to be tied down to the normal village girl life she wanted adventure and in the end she is still stuck in the castle with the duties of being a wife. Explaining the fact that the women of the film were under the authority of the men throughout the whole film and even Belle being the dominant, aware character she is still taken for granted by Gaston and earlier in the film by the