Beauty and the Beast: Feminism and Chauvinism

Marian Belle is the main character, she lives with her father who is considered by the town a loony man therefore, Belle is also looked upon the town as being a little out of the ordinary. Even so, she is the most beautiful girl in town, her name means beauty in French and it is shown with her wonderful appearance throughout the duration of the movie. Gaston a very courageous and dignified worrier, who is in love with Belle and wishes to marry her. Moreover every women and mean in the town look up to him and would do anything for him.

Finally, the Beast, a character who defines the word ugly and moreover, down right gruesome. Meanwhile, the Beast is a prince who at one time in his life was very spoiled and took everything for granted. Now paying the price of his uncaring actions in the past consequently, he must fine a woman to love him for who he is inside and not his appearance from the outside. Fortunately, Belle’s father gets lost ion his way to the fair and ends up at the Beasts castle. Surprisingly he is throne in jail. Belle is waiting at home when she notices her father’s horse straying in without her father. Belle convinces the horse to show her where her father is and she ends up at the castle as well. As Belle finds her father locked up in the tower cell, the Beast appears and asks her what she is doing there. Belle states you have to let my father go, convincing the Beast that she will take his place. So she did, and the Beast and Belle got to know each other pretty well. Until this point the Beasts thought he has no chance with Belle because she was such a beautiful girl and he was so ugly. Fortunately Belle is being a little out of the ordinary saw right through his beastly ways and found a magnificent man beneath. Nonetheless, Bell and the beast fall in love and she kisses him at the end of the movie before he dies and he becomes a prince again.

Meanwhile, as Belle is finishing her walk through the chauvinistic town, Justin jumps in front of her grasping the book she was peacefully reading and says “It’s not right for a woman to read then they started to get ideas and thinking.” If this were a statement made by a stubborn political figure back in the 1800’s I would understand because that was just how things tend to work back then. However, this is a movie written in the 1990’s for children to watch seventy years after women got the vote and were recognized to be equal to men. Nonetheless, I probably doubt that most children who view this movie look at it in a chauvinistic way but if they did recognize the feminism towards women it would upset them as it did to me. Adults on the other hand, pick up on these inessential parts of the movie and are struck with disappointment. As I viewed the movie several times and realized what was actually going on it actually hurt me to think tha

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