Beauty and the Beast teaches harmful stereotypes and suggests gender roles to audiences and should not be taught to the general public. Gender roles in today's society, there is pressure to become a certain ideal of beauty; many types of images, films, and media tell the public what and how to look like. Suggestions of gender roles are evident in the film Beauty and the Beast. For example, Belle is a beautiful, skinny girl, who loves reading novels and who does not interest the famous Gaston. Belle is often satirized by Gaston for not fitting into her gender role, because she likes to read and wants to leave her provincial town and go on adventures instead of becoming Gaston's housewife. Gender roles are represented through Gaston, he often tells Belle to stop reading and pay more attention to marriage and her duties as a "housewife", so Gaston is the character who suggests gender roles. like Belle. Beauty and the Beast sends out the stereotype, if a young woman (Belle) is pretty and gentle in nature, she can transform a violent man (the Beast) into a kind and gentle man.