A while back ago I spoke about the Disney Prince Aladdin and how he's a great example as to how men act: greedy, selfish, and manipulative. Today I would like to bring forth yet another example by welcoming the Prince named Beast from the movie "Beauty and the Beast."
The beast is of course named honorably for his true colors. If it were up to me, many men would also get this virtuous award winning name. However his name alone does not represent him entirely for who he truly is. The beast in my opinion shows signs of anger management issues, insecurities, and being spoiled rotten.
Yes, the beast has anger management issues. There was numerous signs of this throughout the entire movie and any one with half a brain could tell. In fact I may even say he was abusive to Bell. There were moments were he acted like he was going to hit her and you could see her cringe to his body movement just waiting for the impact. Poor Bell! Let's not forget that he also held her prisoner, forced her to dine with him for dinner, yelled in her face, and cut her off from the rest of society. Meanwhile he was always angry shouting, and running off to his room. No one can quite fully know why he was angry, but I'm sure it was along the lines of his curse, or about the minor moments others were happy in his home, or/and about his so called "loneliness."
Which takes me onto how he shows signs of being spoiled Rotten. This man had all the money in the world, he had numerous people who worked for him, and a large castle to live in. In the beginning of the movie you see him receiving presents and he acts childish by being unappreciative. This is of course is why he got himself into the mess of being cursed. Yet he obviously never grows up. He still eats poorly at the dinner table having bell whip his face and having no manners. He has to have others bath him even though he's a full grown man. Lastly he never cleans up after himself. His cleaners turns into kitchen item and that still doesn't stop them from sweeping the floors.
Poor baby the Beast. No, I don't think so, in fact I don't feel bad for him at all! In my opinion he didn't receive a big enough punishment by being having his appearance look just as ugly as his insides. I mean even with this curse, he still had his waiters, butlers, and servants to pick up after him, he still had all his money, he got to stay and live in his massive castle, he got more muscular, and yet he self pitted himself just because he was no longer handsome. Yeah, I don't feel sorry for him at all.
Then there's his insecurities. He covered up all his old photos of himself so didn't have to look at them, he never likes catching his own reflection, and he apparently is too shy to want to step into the light so Bell could see his true appearance. Yes, this man has some serious insecurities and its no wonder he had to force a female to live with him in order to even get close to someone. Fact being, you can't love someone if you don't accept loving yourself first. Now with that said, I can't help but wonder how Bell's relationship is with him now? He has his handsome face back but does Bell have to tell him, "you look good in those jeans" in order for him to step out into public with her? And does his face make up for all those other bad personality faults? Did he really change by the spell being broken or is he still that insecure, angry, and spoiled beast?
Tell me, what do you think?
