“Beauty and the Beast “ and “Maleficent” both show that the empowerment of love can overcome any curse. The similarities of these two movies are the themes of the power of love, independent women characteristics, and to not judge someone by their appearance.
Paragraph 1: Power of love
1. True love’s kiss can break any spell
• Maleficent curses her daughter, Princess Aurora; with a needle of a spinning wheel and make her fall into an eternal sleep and the only way to awaken from the sleep is through true love’s kiss. In the end, Maleficent is the only one who can break the spell with a mother daughter’s kiss to wake Aurora up.
• Belle’s beauty and her sweet nature change the Beast from a beast into a prince, turning from cruel into a kind person. …show more content…
Simply trust that they will be back to stand by you. Possibly, save you from the evil side of yourself.
Paragraph 2: Independent women characteristics
1. Caring to family
• In “Maleficent”, motherly love breaks an evil spell. Maleficent had her heart broken by the man she thought was her “true love” – Aurora’s father. So she curses Aurora can only awake by her true love. Maleficent secretly watches Aurora grow up and care about her. But at the end, the one can revoke the curse is Maleficent; not some guy that she barely knows.
• When Belle notices her father is missing, she goes search for him at night in a dangerous part of the woods alone. Belle doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice herself and offers to trade with her sick father as the Beast’s prisoner.
➢ In the past, women usually define as weak, fearful, unadventurous. However, from Belle and Maleficent, we can see that women can be tough and strong. The family is an important bearing to women and they would protect their family or even save them no matter what. Even though Maleficent does it in an extreme way. It shows that they are both independent women that they are protective to their family when there’s dangerous happened among their …show more content…
At first Belle is threatened by Beast’s appearance but his kindness impressed her. On the other hand, Stefan breaks Maleficent’s heart that she doesn’t believe in “true love” anymore, and she wants to prevent Aurora from experiencing what she experienced.
Paragraph 3: Appearance doesn’t matter
1. An ugly outside can hide a loving heart.
• Maleficent acts as a terrifying and villain character in the movie to hide her care and love to Aurora.
• Beast looks terrible and frightening, but Belle is being horrified by his appearance. Every day the Beast asks Belle to marry him, but she refuses.
➢ Everyone looks different, and appearance doesn’t mean everything.
2. Inner beauty is more important
• Maleficent has a loving and caring heart in the depths to Aurora, just because a man wounds her heart that she thought he is her “true love”.
• Although the Beast appears to be a monster, but actually he is really gentle in his deep part and treats Belle with kindness and
Paragraph 1: Power of love
1. True love’s kiss can break any spell
• Maleficent curses her daughter, Princess Aurora; with a needle of a spinning wheel and make her fall into an eternal sleep and the only way to awaken from the sleep is through true love’s kiss. In the end, Maleficent is the only one who can break the spell with a mother daughter’s kiss to wake Aurora up.
• Belle’s beauty and her sweet nature change the Beast from a beast into a prince, turning from cruel into a kind person. …show more content…
Simply trust that they will be back to stand by you. Possibly, save you from the evil side of yourself.
Paragraph 2: Independent women characteristics
1. Caring to family
• In “Maleficent”, motherly love breaks an evil spell. Maleficent had her heart broken by the man she thought was her “true love” – Aurora’s father. So she curses Aurora can only awake by her true love. Maleficent secretly watches Aurora grow up and care about her. But at the end, the one can revoke the curse is Maleficent; not some guy that she barely knows.
• When Belle notices her father is missing, she goes search for him at night in a dangerous part of the woods alone. Belle doesn’t hesitate to sacrifice herself and offers to trade with her sick father as the Beast’s prisoner.
➢ In the past, women usually define as weak, fearful, unadventurous. However, from Belle and Maleficent, we can see that women can be tough and strong. The family is an important bearing to women and they would protect their family or even save them no matter what. Even though Maleficent does it in an extreme way. It shows that they are both independent women that they are protective to their family when there’s dangerous happened among their …show more content…
At first Belle is threatened by Beast’s appearance but his kindness impressed her. On the other hand, Stefan breaks Maleficent’s heart that she doesn’t believe in “true love” anymore, and she wants to prevent Aurora from experiencing what she experienced.
Paragraph 3: Appearance doesn’t matter
1. An ugly outside can hide a loving heart.
• Maleficent acts as a terrifying and villain character in the movie to hide her care and love to Aurora.
• Beast looks terrible and frightening, but Belle is being horrified by his appearance. Every day the Beast asks Belle to marry him, but she refuses.
➢ Everyone looks different, and appearance doesn’t mean everything.
2. Inner beauty is more important
• Maleficent has a loving and caring heart in the depths to Aurora, just because a man wounds her heart that she thought he is her “true love”.
• Although the Beast appears to be a monster, but actually he is really gentle in his deep part and treats Belle with kindness and