#5: BELLE

Attractive and beautiful, yet considered odd and peculiar. Loves books, confident, outspoken, with an active imagination. Belle is also a women's-libber for her time, and refuses to be mistreated, undermined, demeaned, or controlled by any man.

Belle (meaning beautiful in French)

Gaston

Gaston: "How can you read this? There's no pictures!"

Belle and the Beast, eventually enjoying their happily ever after

“Belle is the fifth Disney Princess, first introduced in Walt Disney Picture's thirtieth animated feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991) she was based on the heroine of the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont.

Frustrated with her provincial village life, book-loving Belle longs for adventure. When her father Maurice is imprisoned by a hideous beast, Belle sacrifices her own freedom in return for his. At first frightened by the Beast's physical appearance and repulsed by his selfishness, Belle learns to appreciate him after he rescues her from a pack of hungry wolves, expressing her gratitude by tending to his wounds. While the Beast's love for Belle gradually results in him adapting a more friendly and civil manner, Belle befriends him, eventually managing to fall in love with him by the time the last petal falls off an enchanted rose, which ultimately breaks a spell cast on him and transforms him back into a handsome prince.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Princess

“Gaston is strong and handsome, and is all too aware of this. He is hailed as a local hero and the "greatest hunter in the whole world", desired by many of the young women of his village (he is even described as "cute, dreamy, and handsome" by the Bimbettes in the first opening number), but he is boorish, uncultured and egotistical (the townsfolk don't seem to notice or care, however). Given his narcissistic nature, he loves to boast about this at every opportunity, especially when the villagers begin singing a song about him to cheer him up after Belle's rejection of him. He was also arrogant, displayed by his conceited proposal to Belle and his belief that he could take down the Beast without aid and his boasting about his strength. The latter, however, could be seen as entirely justified. He also suffers from obsessive love, as described below.” http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Gaston