So, yesterday, I was obviously upset because I don't want to grow up. But today, I am going to analyze an even more mind boggling concept: Love. Not love like, "oh there's this boy, and even though I'm thirteen, I think I love him." (No offense Kay, but I don't believe in love this young) If anything, that could be called puppy love (roughly defined as "shallow but intense feelings of love between two young people" (and yes, I read the dictionary on occasion...)) But no, I am talking about the most romantic, best love stories of all time: Disney. Now, not to say all Disney love stories are perfect, so this is where I will decide: Happily Ever After or Happily Never After?
1. Beauty and the Beast
"Neeeeew and a bit alarming who'd have ever thought that this could be? Truuue that he's no prince charming but there's something in him that I simply didn't see!" (Something There, duet between Belle and the Beast)
Once upon a time, the Beast was the charming Prince Adam, who was found by the Enchantress to have no love in his heart for others. The Enchatress curses him, tranforming him into the horrible Beast, and the only way to break the curse is to learn to love and be loved by another person. The catch is, he needs to do this before the last petal of the enchanted rose falls. There is only one petal left on the rose at this point in the story. Belle, the beautiful, beloved town girl (Belle means beautiful in French, hence "Beauty and the Beast") makes a trade with the Beast, who was holding her father captive for trespassing. Belle offers to take her fathers place and must promise to remain in the castle forever. In the song lyrics I quoted above, Belle is beginning to see the gruff, angry Beast is not all bad, and is starting to fall for him. Beast, who was thought to have a heart to full of arrogance and self obsession to love another being, is starting to realize he loves Belle. One of my favorite Disney movie scenes is in Beauty and the Beast, where Belle and the Beast are waltzing on the balcony, and the curse is broken, so in the middle of their slow dance, the Beast is transformed back into Prince Adam.
I would consider this story to be one filled with "true love" because Belle falls in love with the Beast, even though he is, by title, a beast, gruff, not classically handsome, and pretty mentally unstable, due to frustration and impatience of finding true love. She loves him through and through, good, bad, and sometimes quite scary.
On the other hand, Belle was being held hostage. Forever.
A would call this Disney romance Happily Ever After, because even though they met through capture, and he was going to hold her captive for eternity, the love was true and real, unlike this next story...
I am actually going to break this into parts because otherwise it's a lot to read in one post...
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