Gaston And The Beast Essay

Since the beast is seen as a monstrous beast, you would think that it would be impossible for anyone to fall in love with him. For this reason, Gaston is brought up in the movie as the complete opposite of the beast. “The fact that Disney creates this “charming” character as a “bad guy” and casts a “horrible ugly beast” as the “good guy” (who Belle even states is “no prince charming”) utterly goes against the stereotype, replacing it instead with the message that it’s not what a person has on the outside that matters, but what’s on the inside (Wynn Earl).” Disney helps get this message across by making Gaston the handsomest gentlemen in town with big muscular biceps and he happens to want to marry the prettiest girl, Belle. Unfortunately for …show more content…
As she rejects marrying the handsomest man in town, the audience can see that Belle is not all so interested in the physical appearance of a person, but rather in the internal beauty. We see this trait in Belle when she falls in love with the beast for his internal beauty, rather than with Gaston whom has external beauty. Of course, Gaston nonetheless is considered narcissistic throughout the entire movie because of his way of being. All he cares about is sweeping Belle off her feet, and does everything possible to prevent her from being happy with the beast. He gets the whole town to go against the beast and all go to attack him. At this point in the movie, Gaston’s real character is revealed as he becomes a villain when fighting with the beast (Trousdale and Kirk, “Beauty and the Beast”). Just how like the Disney movie gave an antagonist to the story, Villeneuve’s version also had an antagonist, but is not clearly shown as in the movie. This antagonist happens to be the evil fairy who turns the prince into a beast for an injustice reason (Barbot de Villeneuve). Although she may have started off as a good person, she soon became a “villain” just like