Their lives are absolutely shattered when he’s a spoiled asshole to an innocent stranger. I get that there’s something in it for them if they can help him turn things around with Belle but there seems to be zero ill will towards him through the movie. Even in the end they seem perfectly cool with sticking by him.
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He was an underage child who correctly assessed a stranger as dangerous and didn’t want them in his home. His only error was that she was more dangerous than anticipated. The staff correctly placed blame on her for the whole affair.
Probably cause they realize it’s not his fault the enchantress is a psycho who goes around using her magic to deal out vigilante “””justice”””.
The moral Disney missed is suggesting that children should let strangers dressed like homeless people into their homes in exchange for flowers.
It is very likely that any of the servants in the same position would have also tossed her, so it is more of a ‘she cursed the house’ but the master got it worse because he opened the door.
It’s worth mentioning a few things.
The spell could only be broken by Beast getting his true love crap sorted. Enlightened self interest means you gotta keep the guy sane and socialised “just in case”. Retaliation just because it feels good isn’t going to help anyone. It’s a lesson that we as a society seem absolutely intent on forgetting today, but keeping the aristocrats happy was pretty reflexive. For a while longer….
And importantly the revolution was still (by popular estimates) a couple of decades away. The French absolutely will reach the breaking point and tell the aristocracy where exactly to shove it. That place is the recently exposed to air arteries and throat accessed by removal of the head.
Murdering the beast is a trivial affair for half a house of sentient chatel , it wouldn’t do anything except screw them over faster. And even the non cursed peasantry wasn’t ready to take up arms despite what was a shitty time to not be a landed aristocrat.
Besides what the top comment already correctly stated : where were they supposed to go? Not like they would be welcomed by the general public
Honestly, I feel like the staff harbor a good bit of self-guilt for letting the young master open the door. In a castle that size there is pretty much zero reason he should have been the one to open the door and since he was child they probably feel pretty guilty about neglecting their duty.
He didn’t drag them into anything.
Was Beast an unpleasant person? Absolutely. But the problem is, the enchantress that cursed him and all of his servants was being pointlessly vindictive, especially since she really did not need shelter. She went straight to a nuclear option when it really wasn’t that serious.
It’s in the song: Life is so unnerving for a servant who’s not serving. Beast is their master. They live to serve him and it’s why they’re happy to see Maurice then Belle.
Because it wasn’t Beast’s fault. The enchantress was being entirely unreasonable in deciding to punish a child so harshly, and in deciding to punish his servants along with him.
Was he an asshole sure? But the curse was completely out of proportion and an obvious setup. A woman came to his house and offered a magic rose to stay the night. He rudely said no. It’s not like he beat, robbed, or raped her. Not to mention she was in disguise and it really seems like it was a setup. She not only cursed him, but all of his servants. What are they going to do alienate the guy who is their only way out of the curse?
They were all in it together. They knew they couldn’t lift the curse by being antagonistic to the Beast
Prince Adam is not a child. He’s in his teens. He’s acting like a 15 or 16 year old. The basis for the “he’s 11” theory is a single line in “Be Our Guest” that says they’ve been rusting for 10 years. When you’ve been transmutated into a talking candleabra it probably feels like an eternity. He’s just exagerrating for effect.
Prince Adam is old enough to be rightfully labeled a shithead. (This brings me to another proof that he’s not 11– when the old woman is shown, it’s from his perspective, looking down at her.) But he’s young enough to be given a little grace for being a lonely brat at Christmas. He’s probably a little shit, but they probably believe he’ll outgrow the behavior eventually.
They may also have genuine love for him. He’s depicted as and petulant but not really unforgivably bad. He’s not evil, he’s just mean. They believe he can be redeemed. And they also have to rely on that happening soon.
There’s also the portrait. I was a kid when this movie came out–I did not think he was a child. This is madness.
I don’t know how I feel about the theory that they were cursed for 21 years- the ramifications for Chip would be tragic
I don’t know why you find this surprising. Many worlds are full of people that idolize the rich against their own best interests.
You have to take in the time that the movie takes place in. The Beast might have been a terrible person but the servants still had a pretty good life style because of him. It was leagues better than what the average person of the time lived like. It also possible that the servants had tons of time to get over be mad at The Beast. After a while it is hard to stay mad at someone when you are stuck with them for an unknown amount of time.
>The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which will bloom until his twenty-first year.
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>Ten years we’ve been rusting
Needing so much more than dusting
Needing exercise, a chance to use our skills!
The curse completes on his 21st birthday, and they’ve been cursed for 10 years. Therefore, the Prince was 10 or 11 when he got cursed-meaning, their lives were absolutely shattered when a vindictive witch placed a curse on an entire castle because a literal child was mean to her once.
I would guess they stick with the Beast because they recognize that the witch is the one most at fault here. Also because there aren’t many employment opportunities for talking candelabras.
Well, from our todays standards, he was unreasonably cruel, yes.
But lets pretend we’re a nobles servant in the medieval ages. You enjoy the life of a servant of a reasonable normal prince for the time. He doesn’t punish you overly cruel, he treats you ok if you work hard (which you do!) and you life is comparatively good. You have been to the village once or twice, and GOD is is dirty and cold there. And the people, they STINK.
Now a beggar from who the fuck knows where comes to your door. And she smells and looks like shes sick or something, you don’t know you’re not a doctor but you heard things about sickness and pests, oh nono, not in this castle.
Prince Adam was right to shoo her away!
Feudal loyalty.
One) he didn’t. The witch did
Two) they had no choice, he was their only hope
They don’t want to die