In Disney's Beauty and the Beast why was it strange for Belle to read books?

That was a time when women typically weren't educated. Women reading books was completely out of the ordinary because women were supposed to just sit pretty and please their husbands, not have a working brain in their head. Shocking I Fortunately those days are gone.In Disney's Beauty and the Beast why was it strange for Belle to read books?it isn't strange for her to read books, but strange that she's always reading books, like she's obsessed with reading books. people wouldn't have really cared because Belle's father had originally been a wealthy merchant, until they had to seize their belongings to pay debt. the well-educated women were that who were wealthy. Belle happened to be unmarried and poor, so people really wouldn't have seen a problem with her being stuck in her books, as that was their attitude to the poor. they went unnoticedIn Disney's Beauty and the Beast why was it strange for Belle to read books?I don't think it was so much meant to be strange, it was just her favorite pastime. When she is imprisoned by the Beast, she finds out that he has a huge library. It shows that they have something in common and that knowing the Beast makes her life better. Because, remember, she had to read the same books over and over again because their weren't many books in her village. It shows also, that she is intelligent and deep, the kind of person who could see past the beast's outsides and fall in love with him. I love that movie.In Disney's Beauty and the Beast why was it strange for Belle to read books?During that time In France it was considered ridiculous for a woman to be doing anything besides looking after the house and children, reading was seen as a waste of time for them, men didn't believe that they needed to read. :( it was a rough life back then for girlsIn Disney's Beauty and the Beast why was it strange for Belle to read books?
Because women weren't generally educated in those days. The few who were educated were usually taught by men who were ahead of their time in their views of female rights.