What Is The Castle Scene In Beauty And The Beast

The other scene I have chosen to analyze if this film, Beauty and the Beast, was castle scene where Belle spends her time as captive to the beast and is expect to abide his rule over her and to act subservient to him, which backs up the point that females are expected to be subservient to male characters in this film and this teaches wrong messages to people watching the film. In the castle captivity scene where Belle is detained by the beast against her will, we see how the Beast expects her to obey him when he demands and when she doesn’t, he is frustrated that she is not being subservient to him even though she is a person and not an object to be owned or a animal that obeys its masters commands. She is a human being with as much equal rights

to her own freedom as the Beast does or any other person in her little French village. During these scenes, we once again witness Belle being abused by male characters for being “disobedient” by not complying to their demands. When we analyse these scenes we realize that we get a lot of these subliminal messages sent out to us and that affect us as an audience, especially since Disney films are mainly directed at younger children and watching scenes like these teach and affect these kids about how females are treated as they will want to behave like they see the characters in the movie. What the audience takes away from these scenes is that females are inferior objects to males and that they are not supposed to be taking part in intelligent activities and should be instead focusing on “more important things” like the men who will judge whether to marry you or not, on your looks instead of personality and who you are on the inside. This movie tells us that all males do not like you because you have an amazing personality or are smart, but because they find you attractive. This viewpoint tells the females watching the film that nothing about you matters other than you being the best looking you can be for the men or they will not like you, while telling males that this is how you are supposed to judge your women. The way that the females are portrayed in this animated film on how they are meant to behave and be treated by males characters can be and is viewed by today’s society to be gender discriminatory and oppressive to females.