My third favorite princess. I love how she was shown to be different girl. She's a bookworm and she is not liking someone only from physical looks, but with a good heart instead, unlike most of the girls. She was selfless especially towards her father. She was somehow a bit overpride and stubborn, but it doesn't really bother me. She has not only beauty face but also beauty heart as well.

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Belle is boring and bland, I've never seen a more basic character. I can find traits to like in nearly every other princess, but I've never been able to with Belle. She's portrayed as odd and different, but what does she do that isn't normal? Her father is the one that's really cooky or anything. Belle reads, that's about it, so she doesn't fit in her village, but that, to me, just makes her a boring nerd. Then the jock of the town actually likes her and doesn't care that she's weird (as chauvinistic as he might be), but she rejects and scoffs at him because she thinks he's primeval by her own standards and looks down on him for his intelligence. I understand people there don't "get" her, but if you want more than your provincial life why not get out of town and go on an adventure? She chooses to stick with her father in this town and complain about it, despite she being fully able to travel on her own free will. She's the perfect Mary-sue, she's polite so her intelligence doesn't seem pretentious, she's selfless so her complaining about others seems reasonable, and she's outspoken so she doesn't just seem like a total doormat. She doesn't go too far in one direction or the other in order to avoid any real criticism. Belle is a smart character, but I don't like perfect characters, or characters who want to seem perfect, but are actually pretty pompous and lacking in the progressive department, which I think Belle is.

Like Ariel, she's one of the few old princesses that I love. Her strengths are to seek to be autonomous regardless of the village's expectations about a woman, whether to value herself as a woman (when she refused the request of the sexist Gaston who downgraded women and everyone he considers inferior or when she imposed herself instead of submitting to the bad treatments of the Beast), brave (she faced up to the Beast to free her father and the village that wanted to kill the Beast), she is intelligent and determined (desire for change and fight for what she believes), selfless and self confident.

I just wish Disney had not used Belle as a baseball bat to twist "their first form of feminism." Belle is...or was created...to be the opposite of Ariel. Where Ariel was impulsive and went exploring, Belle stayed home with daddy and read books. Ariel was portrayed as being "a weak damsel for falling in love with her prince," but Belle gets no criticism at all for having "two men chasing after her for the entire movie," and neither one is a nice guy at all. One is your classic high school jock jerk, and the other is grade A abusive a-hole. Not to mention the fact that at the very culmination of her story arc, Belle betrays her prince, all because she loves her daddy more than her guy. I don't fully know how to express the irony, here. Belle gets praised for being everything Ariel gets condemnation for. Yeah. That's what I've seen for years when watching both movies.

I just think the screenwriting by Linda Woolverton made Belle into a really bland female, who had very little agency, and could only perform "stand up to angry men" in terms of a plotline. Belle became dull within five minutes of me watching her, and I was only eleven years old back then, when she first graced the screen. The criticism from Jeffery Katzenberg directed at Ariel ( and his promotion of Belle back in the day) made me loathe Shrek's Fiona, in ways that I cannot express. (Fiona is Belle all over again, only Dreamworks version). So, while Belle is legendary to most everyone, she is a source of annoyance to me. In my opinion, Belle gets praise she doesn't deserve, because she was created as "an audience satisfaction tool," and she never really has broken out of that mold. Inwardly, I shrug at her adoration.

Belle is my favorite princess! I love how she knows exactly what she wants from life, but puts those things on hold to care for her father. He's the only thing she has in that town, and she's not about to abandon him to his close-minded neighbors. She's insightful, and can see through people to who they really are beneath their skin. She has a healthy amount of self-respect, and won't let anyone talk down to her. Her decisions are sometimes impulsive, and she's not one to follow rules, but she's extremely loyal to her friends and family, and will do literally almost anything for them. Not to mention she's a bookworm, so I just adore her!

Oh well, where do i start ? I think Belle is such a good role model. She has all the good qualities I want to have : The confidence, the independence, the patience, the intelligence, the courage, the compassion, the wittiness, the politeness and above all, the selflessness. She knew what's right and what's wrong. She’s able to read people’s true character and she doesn't judge things from their cover.
What i like about Belle is she's responsible, loyal and family-oriented. Even though she want things so much it hurts and longed to have adventure in the great wide somewhere, she still did the right thing : she stays with her father and she sacrifices everything, even her own freedom, for him. She put family above anything else. I love that the most about her. She’s also very curious and love to learn new things. She’s brave, confident and sure of herself. Despite she knew people think of her as odd and funny, she likes herself enough to never mind their opinion.
I think Belle teaches many good and important lessons. To be sincere, to be genuine, to love yourself the way you are despite what people said about you, to care about your family and be responsible of them, being considerate of others, to look beyond physical exterior and to love reading.
She's my ultimate favorite Disney princess. She always has been, she always would be. She's pretty inspirational in my opinion. I can named tons of other things i liked about her or feel related to her but that would bore people to death and certainly would include me comparing her with other princesses and that would be just out of the topic.

The best word for Belle is relatable. Both Belle and me are brown-haired, hazel-eyed, very dreamy, romantic, thoughtful, introverted, cultured, eccentric outcasters who are often consider as insane. She is also my most nostalgic princess.

what i love the most about her is the balance - her wants and with what is expected of her. She never throws caution to the wind and get carried away by impulse. She is mature, well-rounded personality with basic flaws that doesnt make me dislike her but just relate to her as a human and loads of qualities to look upto as a role model.
She hits the best note with me between Ariel being too reckless and Poca being too passive.