Talk:Ariel/@comment-9548674-20151021063426/@comment-1672596-20151021110112

Not really. At least her stubbornness actually did have her be headstrong and be very determined to follow her dreams. I'd argue Belle's stubbornness made her annoying, though, especially when she really doesn't even attempt, nor even accomplish, her dreams of adventures in the great wide somewhere, not to mention doesn't really have any justifiable excuse for not doing so. Unlike her predecessors, she was actually quite free to pursue her dreams from the start: She doesn't have a father who forced her to stay there out of racism or anything like that, she isn't enslaved by her parents, she doesn't have some sort of obligation and cursed fate, and based on the fact that she actually could afford books in an implied backwater village (which although the 18th century does allow for far more access to books among even poorer people, which Voltaire and his ilk unfortunately exploited to fan the flames of hatred towards Christianity via deceptive premises that culminated in the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, they were still fairly expensive especially for a farming community, not to mention they'd still need the time to raise the crops and prepare them to such an extent that the only time they can even afford the time to do anything relating to reading books is on Sundays), she doesn't even have any financial difficulties, yet despite all her talk, she never actually pursues her dreams at all even with all the opportunities presented to her.