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Comparing Belle's Beauty And The Beast
Beauty and The Beast I have always pretended to be belle from “Beauty and the Beast.” I wanted so desperately to find my prince charming, dance to songs, have a castle filled with enchanted creatures, and have a library filled with books from floor to ceiling. Many years later, after watching the same story plot unfold, what I can honestly say about Belle is that she could have been a role model in ways that she lived her life. The personality of Belle was her strength, because she was open-minded and the abundance of love that she gave out. I also find myself to possess this personality of caring for others. Throughout Belle’s story, she was faced with an opposition and many obstacles that pushed her to think about who she was. Gaston and the townspeople tried to push Belle and mold her into the type of person they think was normal for society to see. The story of the Beauty and the Beast is one defying moment of what a normal society tries to look like. What was right and was supposed to be a majority of society including people by shunning them into marriage or from a union between people with differences. Society applauds to the normal path that is taken, whether it is a marriage between man or a woman, or a relationship of the same sex or race. The main motive of Beauty and the Beast occurs in many …show more content…
The parents can predetermine their child names from the rest of the children. For instance, the name Belle translates to “Beauty” from the French language. While Belle is a beautiful name, she does not let her name or the meaning of its get in the way of her personality. The tradition behinds belle name is “Flirtatious, using her beauty and good looks to gain social standing for an example, while belle walks through the town, her head buried in her book, she is oblivious to all the commotion she brings about her. One goes far as to say, “Now it’s no wonder her name means ‘beauty.’ Her looks have got no

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