Symbols In The Film Beauty And The Beast

The film does contain a very stereotypical, familiar, and accurate representation of a mid 18th-century French village by showing the village women at home doing chores and the men working. The costumes and makeup helped support the setting and time period that the film was placed in by having the characters wear appropriate clothing such as dresses, poet shirts, and tricorns. The only two unique characters in the film were Beauty, an educated bookworm, and the Beast, a rich prince. Finally, there was one exaggerated character which was Gaston, a rich, overly strong and materialistic man in the village who wanted Belle to love him.

In the film, there are symbols such as the Beast, Lumière's flames, the magic mirror and the rose that help move the story. The Beast's appearance represents the prince's behavior towards others before the curse which shows us that his personality was horrid. Now, Lumière's flames are a symbol of hope that the Beast will find love and the flames extinguish when hope is lost. Next, the magic mirror symbolizes how the Beast has become an outsider and excluded himself from the world because of his actions. Finally, the enchanted rose is essentially a timer in the film, but the rose does symbolize love.
Potts, and Lumière. Even though this movie is not part of a series, it is a remake of the original Beauty and the Beast that Disney created in the year of 1991. Since then, the film company, Disney, has generated an enormous amount of fans from all of the movies and TV shows that they create; however, there is not a specific name for the fan base of either Beauty and the