Books Belle Reads in Beauty and the Beast

Disney fans have tried for years to link the company's animated films together into one big multiverse, and some of them are at present discovering (or rediscovering) a possible link between 2 of its biggest movies.

In the beginning of Beauty in the Beast, nosotros come across Belle, a bookworm who doesn't quite fit in with the rest of her small hamlet in France. She dreams big, wanting more than than the provincial life that everyone else has settled into. Her nose is e'er stuck in a book, and the townsfolk take her mannerisms for weirdness. It's this last character trait nosotros see firsthand when Belle heads to the local bookshop to return the latest volume she'due south finished (believed to be Jack and the Beanstalk, based on her description to the baker).

With nothing new to read, Belle selects an quondam favorite, a volume the bookshop owner notes she'southward already read twice—and one that he eventually just gives to her.

"Well, it'due south my favorite!" Belle replied. "Furthermost places, daring swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise!"

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Afterwards on, as Belle sits by the fountain, she reveals her favorite function of the story to a group of sheep more interested in taking a bite out of the book.

"Isn't this astonishing?
It's my favorite function
Because y'all'll meet
Here's where she meets
Prince Charming
But she won't observe that information technology's him
Till chapter 3"

Belle never names her favorite book, just the fan theory, which recently resurfaced on Tumblr, posits that she'due south talking about the story of Aladdin. That movie was released on November. 25, 1992—a year after Dazzler and the Animate being—merely information technology could easily have been an early on example of the Easter eggs for which Pixar is famous.

Aladdin takes place in Agrabah and features a climactic swordfight, a genie who tin can perform magic by granting wishes, and Aladdin himself as the prince in disguise. And per Belle's after revelation, Princess Jasmine doesn't larn that Prince Ali is Aladdin until later in the story.

The Tumblr postal service that first posited this theory appeared online in 2012, and Amusement Weekly and Moviepilot covered it in 2013 and 2014, respectively, before it once again started to spread across the Internet. The more people read it, the more people become convinced that Belle is reading Aladdin.

Or is she?

The biggest hint as to what Belle is reading comes during that second scene with those sheep. Sure, Belle sings virtually Prince Charming, but we as well catch a glimpse of the volume itself. On the left page, at that place is an illustration of a woman with dark-brown pilus and a blueish outfit crouching downwardly, a blond-haired prince apparently on all fours near her, and a white castle in the background. The caption reads "Le Prince Charmant," which is French for "The Charming Prince."

That'southward definitely non Agrabah. And contrary to what we meet on that folio, Aladdin pretends to be a prince in disguise with Jasmine afterward the genie turns him into ane, but outset he was a street rat.

Fans (and swain bookworms) have been trying to figure out Belle'south favorite book for years now, and fifty-fifty inside the Disney universe there isn't a movie that perfectly fits the pecker. Only there are a few, like Aladdin, that come up close.

Although it'southward believed that Sleeping Beauty also takes place in France, it's a thing of perspective for Belle. She's from a pocket-size village and appears to have never left it before going to the Beast's castle; thus, nosotros can assume that a identify similar Paris would seem like a faraway land to her.

Aurora doesn't know Prince Phillip'due south identity, information technology features magic from the fairies and Maleficent, and hosts a daring sword fight when Phillip fights the dragon. The characters in Belle'southward volume have different pilus colors than Aurora and Phillip, simply you could easily explain that with some magic from the fairies. Multiple interactions with different Belles at Disney parks (and the Enchanted Tales with Belle theme-park allure) seem to point this.

Belle'due south book could but be foreshadowing of her story to come. She meets a prince in disguise (Adam as the Beast), she encounters the curse on him and his servants, and his castle is farther away from home than she's always been (particularly once she takes her begetter'south place every bit the Animate being'south prisoner). At that place isn't a sword fight, merely Gaston does utilise a dagger to stab the Brute at one point.

If nosotros movement beyond Disney films, The Princess Helpmate fits the bill—albeit with the demand for some wiggle room. That book came out well after the time menstruation of Beauty and the Brute, simply Wesley is in disguise for part of the volume (although he's not a prince), the story takes place in a far-off place, and information technology features a sword fight—between Rugen and Inigo Montoya—and magic from Miracle Max.

Of course, if you lot ask Belle at a Disney theme park, she'll probably give you a different reply.

But nosotros practise know of at least 1 other story that Belle loves. In "Human Once more," a song cutting from the original picture show just added for the re-release, Belle is shown reading the end of Romeo and Juliet to the Beast. After she finishes it, he asks her to read it to him once again. Now that we think nearly it, that could fit the bill for Belle's book, also.

Whatever information technology is, Belle'southward favorite book is conspicuously a universal story—and merely like we did in 1991, we want to read information technology.

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*First Published: February 10, 2016, 3:59 pm CST

Michelle Jaworski

Michelle Jaworski is a staff writer and TV/film critic at the Daily Dot. She covers entertainment, geek culture, and popular culture and has covered everything from the Sundance Film Festival, NYFF, and Tribeca to New York Comic Con and Con of Thrones. She is based in Brooklyn.

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