Theme Of Inner Beauty And The Beast

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Inner beauty is one of the most important traits of someone, but it is often the hardest one to see. Someone is never able to learn how great a person’s inner beauty is without looking past their appearance and getting to know them.The live action Beauty and the Beast truly follows the theme that someone should never be judged on the outside, because the outside does not show what is within. In the beginning of the movie the Beast is throwing a lavish ball when a poor woman comes in asking for shelter from the cold. The Beast had told her no because of how beggarly she looked, the woman, having been angered by the Beast’s response decides to discipline him. Since he was so vain she cursed him to look like a monster, the only way to break the spell was to get someone to love him before his time runs out. Due to his demeanor, …show more content…

When in reality it most likely the influences that surround someone that encouraged them to be the way they are. In the movie, the Beast wasn’t always a superficial prince, he was once a sweet young boy that was revived because of Belle. After Belle and the Beast saved each other in the woods they went back to the castle and while the Beast was asleep Belle was talking to the servants. Belle had been asking everyone how they aren’t frustrated with how their lives are, considering the fact that they didn’t do anything to bring upon the curse. Mrs. Potts then explained to her why, “ You’re quite right there, dear. You see, when the master lost his mother and his cruel father took that sweet innocent boy and twisted him up to be just like him, we did nothing.”. Mrs. Potts clearly states that the way people appear could just be from the way they were taught or raised, because the Beast wasn’t always so isolated and uncaring. Even though the Beast had seemed like a monster incapable of love, he was always still the young boy on the

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