At the beginning of the story, Beauty
is described as a beautiful, humble
peaceful and pure girl.
The Beast sees a photograph of her and he is
amazed by her image of innocence and purity.
He believes she has been "carved out of a single
pearl"
"absolute sweetness and absolute gravity, as if her eyes might
pierce through appearances and see your soul
She becomes corrupted by her wealth and her vanity.
Further in the story she becomes more
egocentric,"she smiled at herself in
mirrors a little too often, these tdays"
This makes her look beastly and
less beautiful, thinking too much
in herself and not in the others.
She becomes spoilt, becoming
used to having everything she
wishes for.
"She was learning, at the end of her
adolescence, how to be a spoiled
child and that pearly skin of hers was
plumping out, a little, with high living
and compliments."
The only thing she asks to his
father is a white rose.
"the only thing she wanted, no
matter how the case went, how
rich he might once again be"
"She longed for the shabby home of their poverty"
She adores her father, and "would
gladly have gne to the ends of the
earth for her father"
She stays at the Beast's house for
him to achieve greatness in
London.
She becomes objectified as
her father uses her as a
method of payment to the
Beast for him not to be hurt
and to achieve greatness.
"Do not think that she had no will of her own; only, she was possesed by a sense of
obligation in an unusual degree"
"She stayed, and smiled,
because her father wanted
to do so"
She ends up falling in love with him, even with all their differences.
Leaves her father and her life in London for the Beast.
"Don't die, Beast! If you'll have me, I'll never leave you"
Goes to dinner to a Beast's
house,putting herself in
danger as she doesn't know
what will happen.
"They belong to a different order of beauty and, besides, they have no respect for us: why should they?"
She is physically beautiful, whille the Beast is internaly
beautiful and loving, although he is physically beast-like.
"with a strange kind o fwonder, almost the dawning of surmise"
"
Gives certain hope to Mr
Lyon, that she migh like
him and not be afraid of
him if she can see his soul.
She is innocent, submissive and timid, but
ends up being strong and independent.