Belle's journey with the Beast
Schmidt's Heroine’s journey template describes female characters' transformation, and Beauty and the Beast traditionally isn’t considered a Heroine’s journey. The movie starts out with the Beast being transformed from man to beast by an Enchantress. The movie’s most obvious character journey is argued to be the Beast, but I think that throughout the movie, Belle also has her own journey, which Schmidt's template describes very well. Belle lives in a small village with her father, but she’s always wanted to go out and have an adventure. Schmidt’s template helps understand Belle’s start to her journey through the “illusion of the perfect world step”. Achieving her wish, Belle gets her “realisation” when she finds out that her father has been captured and is locked up in a castle by the beast, and that she has to go and rescue him. These two steps are very important in Belle’s heroine Journey because those two scenes represent the official start to her journey. When Belle ...