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towards others. Her jealousy is seen through her feelings for Belle, for example. Good princesses do
good deeds in their lives to be considered good and pure. For this reason, and because Sophie does
not show any of these characteristics, she is always compared at the beginning of the story with
another good and pretty girl who lives in Galvadon, the same village as Sophie. This girl is named
Belle, she is almost prettier than Sophie, and she is also charitable and good with kids and hags.
Sophie is jealous of her, especially when her father mentioned that “if it’s goodness the School
Master fellow wants, he’ll take [Belle],” underlining that Sophie is not as good as Belle is (2).
Sophie accuses Belle of making the hunger homeless even more “fat” and that Belle is the “worst
kind of evil,” not understanding the real and pure meaning of Belle’s actions. Sophie believes that
just being a friend with someone hopeless like Agatha, her future best friend, is already a good deed
accomplished (3).

Another part of her personal unconscious is seen through Sophie’s conviction of being too
good-looking to be able of helping others. She does not want her pretty face to be ruined with the
stress and the dirt of cooking, for example, or helping homeless and orphans making her wrinkled
and tired. She does not even help her father at home because, if she cooks for him, “the oil and the
smoke would clog her pores,” so she does not do it because she always has to appear beautiful (3).
She is also wasting important food such as fish and melon for her beauty routines that will be
explained later, and she does not understand that she is wasting good food for those who need it.
Instead of “sacrificing” her food for the orphans and the homeless, she donates them “lemonwood
face wash” because “proper skin care is the greatest deed of all” (6).

Furthermore, to understand the conscious part of Sophie ’s mind, readers need to understand
the ego that emphasizes the unconscious mind of Sophie. In fact, it is the ego that, fighting along
with the unconscious mind of Sophie, does not allow her to understand who she really is. According
to Jung, the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind need to cooperate to arrive at the complete
individuation of the self. Sophie’s ego is very confused by all the years the girl has been convinced
by her unconscious of being pure and perfect. This belief has been reinforced by Sophie’s mother

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