Belle (Beauty and the Beast) help them achieve their respective goals." Michelle Munro, writing for Durham College of Applied Arts and Technology, felt that even though Belle shares several traits with her more passive predecessors, the character introduced "new possibilities for princesses." Girls in Capes wrote that Belle pioneered a generation of princesses who taught "about ambition, self-discovery and the pursuit of what we want." Additionally, Belle remains Disney's first and only princess to have hazel eyes. Belle debuted in "Beauty and the Beast "(1991) as a beautiful bibliophile who, although praised by her fellow villagers for her unrivaled beauty, is at the same time
Beauty and the Beast going back to the castle. Beauty's heart is moved by her family's overprotection, and she reluctantly agrees to stay. Beauty begins to feel guilty about trying to break her promise to the Beast and uses the mirror to see him back at the castle. She is horrified to discover that the Beast is lying dead near the rose bushes from which her father plucked the rose, and she immediately steals the ring back from her father, and uses it to return to the Beast. Once she returns to the castle, Beauty's fears are confirmed that the Beast was found murdered