Beauty and the Beast Exile Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Beauty and the Beast.

Quote #1

NARRATOR: Ashamed of his monstrous form, the Beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world.

Shame is a powerful tool in terms of creating the Beast's exile. He's perfectly capable of leaving the castle; he just refuses to. In so doing, he ensures his own doom since he's not exactly going to meet a lot of girls that way.

Quote #2

BELLE: Every morning just the same / As the morning that we came / To this poor provincial town.

This is a very telling line: Belle isn't native to this village. She arrived there with her father sometime in the past, but recently enough for her to remember. That makes her an exile by default and very subtly connects her to the Beast, who's also exiled.

Quote #3

TOWNSPEOPLE: It's a pity and a sin / She doesn't quite fit in.

No kidding. It feels like she's been an outsider in her village from the beginning. In that sense, Belle's spiritual exile links her to the Beast even before the two of them meet.