Why does gaston want to marry belle

The Beast, by contrast, is "very moody", has no friends, is a "lazy trust funder" and doesn't know how to eat with a spoon. He also yelled at Belle and "tried to kidnap her dad and lock him up forever", which we agree is pretty unforgivable. Dana adds that the Beast "is no fun", "couldn't scheme his way out of a paper bag", "makes everyone call him Master" and is a "Borgeois pig". Damning claims indeed. The film, starring Emma Watson, references Gaston having just come back from fighting in a war.

She says this is most likely the Seven Year's War, which ended in , so Dana reckons the film was set in This means Belle met the Beast just 25 years before the storming of the Bastille, marking the beginning of a French Revolution which would have seen all aristocracy, i.

Meanwhile Gaston would have risen up the ranks of the lower middle classes, thanks to his strength and charm, becoming a Muscadin well-dressed street fighter.

He wants the chase, and in some way is motivated by the fact that he has yet to conquer Belle. But the fact that he thinks she is something to be conquered at all is just the beginning of the trouble. After all, Belle has summarily rejected Gaston for someone she actually loves, and his immediate reaction is essentially to turn the townspeople against her. He is also extremely petty because he does not want any other man to be with her, or for her to like them in any way at all.

At the start of the film and musical play, Gaston did not seem truly wicked, rather he was simply snooty, male-chauvinistic, boorish, and rude than a true villain.

But as time goes on his; pride and obsession with Belle becomes so intense that it turns him into a twisted, sadistic, and murderous monster. His speech to get the mob to kill the Beast in order to guard the village is nothing more than a ploy to get them to help him infiltrate the castle. Gaston doesn't care about the village very much, even if he genuinely does believe that the Beast is a threat.

All he wants is to kill his rival so he can have Belle as his property. By the time of his demise, Gaston feels that if he cannot have Belle, nobody can. In an earlier version of the story, he was even going to commit suicide as he knew that no matter what he did, Belle would never love him.

In the Marvel Comics serial, his personality was largely the same as in the movie, albeit somewhat toned down. However, he ended up not acknowledging that the Bimbettes were in love with him other than in general terms, not taking the hint that they wanted him to return the love, which resulted in many of his plans being foiled. Despite it taking place after making plans with the Asylum Warden to falsely incarcerate Belle as well as forcing LeFou to remain on lookout for either Belle or Maurice's return, he seemed to come up, either by himself or with LeFou's input, with various plans to impress and get Belle to marry him, such as a wife auction, killing a bear, and going to the bookstore, implying that he may have put aside that plan temporarily.

In addition, one of the plans had Gaston deciding against killing the bear immediately due to it hibernating, implying he was capable of honor, although mostly because he wanted to impress Belle. In addition, in the same issue, he also attempted to fight the bear head on when it was prematurely awoken by the Bimbettes in a plan to stop Gaston from marrying Belle , although he got shoved out effortlessly.

Generally speaking, in the movie Gaston is an ambitious, rude, conceited, and male-chauvinist individual that views women not as equal beings with complementary marital duties as God intended but instead views women as one of a man's possessions, especially and specifically as a wife after marriage, women were viewed and treated as a man's property during the time period of the film, with marriage seen as an act of ownership comparable to a man buying livestock and a house during the same era rather than an act of professing love, commitment and companionship like today.

He believes that women were created to serve and obey men in all things - especially cooking, cleaning, taking care of children and overall total obedience to her husband, with no thinking whatsoever.

All of these views against women as equal human beings are what we would and should now consider to be outdated and of the so-called "caveman" mentality. This is strongly implied in the musical version when he says to the Silly Girls that their "rendezvouses" will continue after his marriage to Belle, implying adultery.

This shows that Gaston is a noncommittal, lecherous man that views all women, even and especially wives, as chattel and not as human beings. Had Gaston actually succeeded in marrying Belle, he would control and mistreat her, as well as isolate her from her father in real life, Gaston would have had to get Maurice's explicit permission to marry his daughter, as a daughter was a father's property first.

Additionally, the changing of surnames after marriage for a woman further showed that she became nothing more than a man's property rather than as a life partner for him, as women were in most cultures and for a very long time not considered to be even human and worthy of equal treatment and respect in marriage, as aforementioned.

Gaston is shown to possess a tremendous amount of physical strength, evidenced by his effortlessly lifting up a bench with three females the Bimbettes on it, as well as holding it up with only one hand. He later effortlessly rips off an ornament from the castle to use as a makeshift club during his battle with the Beast.

In the video game, Beauty and the Beast: Belle's quest , Gaston is revealed to be so strong, that he moves a boulder on his own, proving that whether "pebble or boulder, there is nothing that he can't move". He is also able to fire his blunderbuss with pinpoint accuracy, noted by LeFou proclaiming, "Wow! You didn't miss a shot, Gaston! He is also shown to be skilled at stealth attacks, as implied in the song "Gaston" with the lyrics: "No one's slick as Gaston", and confirmed when he manages to stab the Beast in the back while the latter was distracted with joy that Belle returned even though he had to climb up several areas to reach him.

Gaston is the local hero of a small French village at an unknown point in French history presumably the mid-to-late 18th century. He owns a large tavern where he and the villagers drink and talk.

Inside, there is a large portrait of him along with "trophies" from his hunt consisting mostly of animal antlers. He also says he eats five dozen eggs every morning to help make him " roughly the size of a barge " even though he earlier mentions to Belle that he would have his latest kills roast over the fire.

He starts off in the film shooting down a waterfowl headed south with perfect accuracy implying that he had just returned from a hunting trip and declaring his intent to marry Belle after acknowledging from LeFou his popularity with the females in the village.

He then started pursuing Belle throughout the village as she returns home after buying a book from the local bookstore. Their meeting starts off well, but Gaston's remarks about women reading and thinking drive Belle away from him, and she goes home, leaving him displeased. In addition, Gaston, after LeFou, learning Belle was going to help her father, mocked her father, scolded LeFou for mocking Maurice although it was implied that he mostly did that in an attempt to make Belle proud rather than out of any genuine concern for Maurice.

The next day, however, Gaston organizes a wedding outside Belle's cottage in an attempt to "surprise" her, complete with various decorations and a wedding cake. He forces his way into the cottage and attempts to strong-arm her into marrying him, again making sexist remarks about women and housewifery he even envisions the home they would live in as a " rustic " hunting lodge, with his latest kill roasting over the fire and Belle massaging his feet while their children—six or seven boys —play on the floor with their dogs.

While he attempts to corner Belle, she manages to open the door that he has pinned her against. This causes him to lose his balance and fly headfirst into a large mud pond complete with cat-tail plants in front of Belle's cottage, where we find out that a pig is there too.

Mad and humiliated, Gaston storms off but not before vowing to make Belle his wife regardless of her refusals and throwing LeFou into the mud to boot. Later, during a snowstorm, the villagers in the tavern, along with LeFou, sing a song about Gaston's greatness to cheer him up after being rejected by Belle. Then, all of a sudden, Maurice butts in and warns the villagers about a monstrous beast who has locked up Belle as a prisoner in the tower of his castle.

Thinking he is talking nonsense, the villagers throw him out of the tavern, but Gaston realizes that he can use Maurice's outrageous claim to his advantage. In a surprising display of animalistic cunning, he bribes the owner of the local asylum, Monsieur D'Arque, to threaten to throw Maurice into the asylum in order to pressure Belle into marrying him. Considering the management of asylums of the 18th century the time that the film takes place , this is an extremely harsh threat.

LeFou is ordered to stay there and wait for their return. When Belle and Maurice eventually return to the cottage, LeFou informs Gaston right away, and he sets his plan into motion. With the villagers gathered outside the house, D'Arque has his men drag Maurice towards their carriage, while Gaston makes Belle his offer - he will clear up the "misunderstanding" if she marries him. Frightened and grossed-out, Belle refuses, and Gaston allows Maurice to be dragged away.

Belle, however, manages to prove her father's loco claims about a beast inhabiting a huge castle in the woods to be true by using a magic mirror that the Beast gave her. Gaston gets even more frustrated after his plan fails and shocked that Maurice was telling the truth, but he becomes increasingly envious when Belle begins referring to the Beast as "kind and gentle", realizing that she prefers a "monster" over himself. When he refers to the Beast with this insult, Belle furiously retorts back that he is the real monster which makes him snap.

In his envy and snootiness, Gaston rudely snatches the mirror from Belle and successfully convinces the villagers that the Beast is a threat to the village and therefore must be brought down right away.

Locking Belle and Maurice in the basement to keep them from warning the Beast, Gaston leads a lynch mob to assault the Beast's castle and leave no one alive. Gaston bypasses the ensuing battle between the rioters and castle servants and encounters the Beast by himself.

He fires an arrow into him, tosses him out of a window onto a lower section of the roof and tortures him. When Beast doesn't reply, having lost his will to live since Belle's departure to rescue her lost father, who was searching for her , Gaston uses a makeshift club to try kill the Beast.

The Beast, however, regains his strength when he sees Belle return she got away from the basement and viciously fights back. Though roughly even with his adversary, Gaston learns that he cannot rely on brute strength to kill the Beast soon after, and instead begins torturing him in order to aggravate him enough to let his guard down, pushing the final button by claiming that Belle can never love a monster.

The plan works but it backfires at once: the Beast lunges forth, snapping fiercely at him, and then holds the scared hunter at his mercy by holding him above a chasm by the throat. With his life at stake, Gaston abandons his pride and pathetically begs for his life, and the Beast accepts, ordering Gaston to leave and never come back. In spite of this, when Gaston sees the Beast embracing Belle, his great hatred and envy arises again, which leads to his ultimate downfall.

Determined to kill his rival once and for all, Gaston stabs Beast in the side with a knife while dangling precariously from the balcony, before The Beast swung his arm backwards and Gaston dodged it and was about to stab The Beast again but lost his balance and plunged into the deep chasm to his death.

As for The Beast, Belle's heart revived him and he was turned back into a human, along with the rest of the castle servants, including Mrs. Potts, Chip, Cogsworth, and Lumiere, of course. Gaston's role and personality in the musical based on the film is pretty much the same—a pompous, sexist, egotistical, boorish, brutish, brainless and chauvinistic caveman who loves only himself.

His ultimate goal is the same too—marry the prettiest girl in town and make her his " little wife " and his " property ". Instead of ignoring the Bimbettes like in the film, he pays more attention to them saying that their 'rendezvouses' will continue after his marriage to Belle, implying adultery but still wants Belle as his wife, making them unsatisfied to the point of wailing and squallling like infants.

During the proposal scene where there's no wedding party outside unlike the movie , Gaston gives Belle a miniature portrait of himself as a present. In addition to the song Gaston , the song Me is performed by him in which he conceitedly proposes to Belle. The song is of interest because one verse implies that his feelings for Belle are more than for her looks he even calls her 'pumpkin' as an endearing appellative , but he never says it outright to her. Like in the movie, he fatally wounding him and won Belle's heart.

Other actors include Steve Condie. Gaston made sporadic appearances in Sing Me a Story with Belle , mostly acting as a comedic foil to Belle. Once again, he is trying to convince Belle to marry him. Despite his death in the movie, Gaston gained a recurring role on House of Mouse as a guest character, once again voiced by Richard White. His most notable appearance, in the episode "Daisy's Debut", had a running gag in which he frequently injected himself into other people's conversations to say that "no one [verbs] like Gaston!

Notable examples of this is when Daisy compliments Ariel's singing voice. He walks by and says, "No one sings like Gaston! Gaston leans over and says, "No one makes faces in spoons like Gaston! Gaston was one of the many villains to join the takeover in Mickey's House of Villains.