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Belle versus Bella
Belle (Beauty and the Beast) versus Bella (Twilight)
Belle:
Mother is dead.
Bella:
Mother is a ditz.
Belle:
Moved with father to small, provincial town.
Bella:
Moved in with father in small provincial town.
Belle:
Doesn’t fit in because she reads.
Bella:
Doesn’t fit in because she’s self-absorbed and a klutz.
Belle:
Immediately catches the eye of a good looking man who wants her only for her looks.
Bella:
Immediately catches the nostrils of a good looking man who wants her only for her blood.
Belle:
When approached by the sexist, stalker-esque Adonis, throws him out on his butt.
Bella:
When approached by the sexist, stalker-esque Adonis, throws herself at his feet.
Belle:
Meets a Beast who turns out to be a handsome young man.
Bella:
Meets a handsome young man who turns out to be a beast.
Belle:
When verbally abused, leaves. When the Beast essentially apologizes by nearly getting killed saving her life, she saves his life in repayment, but lays down clear rules of behavior.
Bella:
When physically abused, cries, and forgives, because he didn’t mean it.
Belle:
In adversity, despairs for about ten minutes then makes the best of things.
Bella:
In adversity, wallows in angst for an entire book.
Belle:
makes friends with people around her, creating a community that helps each other.
Bella:
gets close to people only when using them.
Belle:
sacrifices herself to save a parent (her father) openly and without deceit
Bella:
sacrifices herself to save a parent (her mother) unnecessarily, lying to everyone around herself.
Belle:
rescues herself, her father, her horse, and the Beast (twice)
Bella:
gets rescued by Edward. Often.
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I love you.
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It's mutual!
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I vaguely recall seeing one comparing Bella to Bellatrix. It was like, c'mon, one is an idiot, and the other is played by Helena Bonham Carter. :)
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This is wonderful, enjoyable, and makes the point better than a rapier thrust.
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but Bella turns into a monster later on, and then saves all the other monsters. all Belle does is dance around a floor in a ball gown. surely that counts for something? ;)
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the fact that Belle loved the Beast is nice, but it's not like she had a noble mission to save everyone. it was more of an unintended consequence of saving her mate. the one correlation i find amusing is that Bella had saving everyone in mind even though her tie to Edward was supposed to be all-consuming... and Belle, who was supposed to have all these other interests, in the end, only acted to save the Beast.
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