Comparison Of Belle In Beauty And The Beast And The Tiger's Bride

In Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”, Belle is shown as a sweet and innocent girl. She’s very smart and loves to read, which was considered odd for girls who lived in her town. Everyone thinks she’s a curious girl because again, she’s different from other girls. Every girl in town has a massive crush on Gaston except for Belle. She doesn’t seem interested in someone so profane and arrogant.

Nonetheless, in “The Tiger’s Bride” by Angela Carter, Belle is significantly different. She is stubborn and intellectual. Belle stands up for what she thinks and believes, even if she is standing alone. This contrasts the Disney movie and the original story “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont, because Belle is charming and sought after.

In “The Tiger’s Bride”, her father is a gambler who doesn’t have regards to Belle’s person, or to the fact that she is a person. He treats her as if she is an object that he can give away and forget about. Belle takes a stand to his perturbed way of thinking by smearing the rose that she gives him with her own blood, tainting his last memory of her. In “Cupid and Psyche”, not only is the father mentioned but Apuleius refers to both of the parents. They basked in Psyche’s glory when she was worshipped, and their beloved kingdom was happy. As soon as Psyche gets a sort of karma, one might say, they throw themselves all over her and grieve for their loss of someone beautiful. Psyche says to them “Why, my dear parents, do you now lament me? You should rather have grieved when the people showered upon me undeserved honors, and with one voice called me a Venus. I now perceive that I am a victim to that name. I submit. Lead me to that rock to which my unhappy fate has destined me.” (Apuleius, 12) In the original “Beauty and the Beast”, Belle’s father is more like he is in the Disney movie. He’s caring and sweet, and doesn’t want his unspoken favorite daughter to be in possession of the Beast. He is however, not a lunatic to the townspeople, as the townspeople are not mentioned in LePrince’s tale. the father was a merchant who had lost all of his money, and the town has no views on that that are