Several psychological disorders have been developed as the result of constant and repeated defense mechanisms. Several disorders that can be found in this story are Stockholm and Oedipus complex syndrome in Beauty and severe depression in Beast. Beauty's personality is dynamic and changes throughout the story.
She is found by a police officer who takes her home, but the experience worsens her symptoms, and the voices in her head begin telling her that Lisa is evil. Lisa takes her to the doctor, and she is finally diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Belle is not in any way exhibiting the effects of Stockholm Syndrome. In exchange, the Beast is “exhibiting the inverse of Stockholm Syndrome, Lima Syndrome, which is where the abductor sympathizes with his hostage”(Poirier).
The writer also analyzes the signs of Narcissistic Personality Disorder of Gaston's character in beauty and the beast movie directed by bill condon.
Clearly, Belle is schizophrenic, and the strain of her efforts to reconcile the ease and luxury of an aristocratic lifestyle with the oppression and social injustice required to perpetuate its existence causes her to experience increasingly vivid hallucinations.
Another character in this story that also face psychological disorder is Beast. He suffers Severe Depression. Similar with Beauty, Beast craves for love and attention, so that Beast faces depression when he lets Beauty leaves. Without Beauty, he doesn't see a point of continuing in life.
We witness multiple instances of Rapunzel grappling with her Stockholm Syndrome throughout her experience, including the conflicting emotions she vocalizes after first escaping, and even after she discovers how smart and strong she can be from her and Flynn's misadventures.
Analyzing several adaptations of this tale over the centuries since it was first written, particularly the addition of Gaston as a foil for the beast, shows that Beauty and the Beast has been transformed into a tale of a woman finding and choosing love rather than that of a victim suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
Stockholm syndrome isn't a psychological diagnosis. Instead, it is a way of understanding the emotional response some people have towards a captor or abuser. Sometimes people who are held prisoner or are subject to abuse can have feelings of sympathy or other positive feelings toward the captor.
Finally, let's consider Alice from Alice in Wonderland (Geronimi et al., 1951), who has symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Ariel is a hoarder and suffers from disposophobia. This rebellious teenager does not know what it is to clean up her room and just can't throw anything away. Her cavern is overflowing with things that she has no clue how to use, and she can't part with them. “I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty.
She explained: That's where a prisoner will take on the characteristics of and fall in love with the captor. Belle actively argues and disagrees with [Beast] constantly. She has none of the characteristics of someone with Stockholm Syndrome because she keeps her independence, she keeps that freedom of thought.
In the 1991 cartoon, Belle's mother or her story was never explored, but in the live-action remake we learn that Belle's mother died of the bubonic plague when she was just a baby. The Enchantress left the Beast a magic book that could transport him anywhere in the world which he shares with Belle.
“[Belle is] able to walk through a crowded marketplace without looking. She knows exactly when everyone wakes up every morning. She talks about the baker having the exact same tray of goods every day,” they wrote. “Belle and her father are considered odd because they change and age!
The moral of the story “Beauty and the Beast” is that we should value the character within, like kindness, over other superficial qualities, like appearance. When Beauty realises the inner beauty of the Beast, the Beast's outer appearance means nothing to her.
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological condition that occurs when a victim of abuse identifies and attaches, or bonds, positively with their abuser. This syndrome was originally observed when hostages who were kidnapped not only bonded with their kidnappers, but also fell in love with them.
He called it Norrmalmstorgssyndromet (after Norrmalmstorg Square where the attempted robbery took place), meaning "the Norrmalmstorg syndrome"; it later became known outside Sweden as Stockholm syndrome.
But she also has hidden disabilities — obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety disorder. So Elsa, the queen whose hidden condition is dramatically revealed, feels like an ally. "Elsa says, 'I don't care what they're going to say,' and I love that line," Liebowitz says.
But then, after seeing the film a few more times, I realized what makes Elsa so special: She is the poster child for girls with autism.
14 Anna: ADHD
Anna is the youngest of the sisters, and unlike her sibling, she does not possess ice magic and is far more outgoing and lovable. But, she also likely deals with having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
The stark reality is that beautiful Belle is held captive by a formidable beast and forced to fall in love with him, Stockholm Syndrome style. Watson does portray Belle as an intelligent, independent woman, but yet still gets captured by an angry man with a curse.
Disney's interpretation of the Beast made him more constantly angry and depressed, due to the shame from his unkind actions which led to his transformation, and particularly his struggle of reconciling his hideous appearance with his inner humanity which made him feel hopeless about breaking the curse.