She's envious of the life outside of her tower. Also lust. She and Ariel share most of the same flaws.

look at all those baked goods she makes every day lol

@wavesurf: I'm not really seeing any envy here. Ariel envied the humans because they led such seemingly fantastic lives; Rapunzel doesn't really know to envy anyone outside her tower, since she's been taught to think the world outside her tower is awful. Rapunzel just wants to see why the lanterns are always out on her birthday.

I personally don't see lust at all; she and Eugene had far from a good start and she certainly didn't fall for him straight off the bat.

^Really? Rapunzel sings an entire song about all of the things she does during the day, that don't particularly interest her anymore... as instead, she's more interested in the lantern lights outside of her tower. Rapunzel envies the world outside of her tower, and that's why Mother Gothel goes through a whole song about "mother knowing best," and Rapunzel needing to shut up--- because Gothel provides her everything she #could ever want.

And Rapunzel does begin to show slightly more interest in Eugene, before Eugene reciprocates. Punzie thinks Eugene should tell her his life story...and that's how they begin to fall for each other, anyhow. The lust is in both characters, btw. It isn't Punzie's fault, alone.

So I see envy and lust in Rapunzel. She's similar to Ariel in a lot of ways.

agree with wavesurf

@wavesurf The problem with that though is that it's more curiosity than envy. Her inspiration to see the lights is entirely knowledge based, not because she wants to be "part of that world". How could she? She doesn't even know what that world is like. And wanting freedom from the tower isn't the same as wanting the things that the outside world has. She just wants to learn more about it, as evidence by the fact that when she first leaves, her whole goal is to come back home. She never plans to live there, or take anything from it like Ariel does.

As for lust, again she doesn't want to be with Eugene the way Ariel does. Ariel sees him do something heroic, is enraptured by it and then becomes infatuated with him without even knowing anything else about his personality. Her devotion to him is almost entirely based on attraction, especially considering that we never really learn anything more about his character other than he's nice and pretty. Hell they never even have a conversation together. Rapunzel's attraction however is created once Eugene opens up to her and tells her how alone he actually is. Rapunzel doesn't have the intense desire for Eugene that lust would suggest since she never really makes any decisions based on his attractiveness rather than their mutual understanding of each other. Falling in love doesn't mean you're lusting after someone.

As for the question itself, the problem is that Rapunzel's main flaws are her naiveté and her incredibly lack of confidence that is nurtured by Gothel. I can't really decide what her actual sin should be since her whole story revolves around building her up rather than showing her how she's wrong. Any bad decision she makes is the result of Gothels manipulations, which means that she can't even really be excessively prideful, since half the time she doesn't even believe what she's doing is right. I would choose lust but the paragraph above shows why even that's not really appropriate.She's not wasteful or greedy, and she's as active in the tower as she can be. I'l pick wrath since she does seem a bit quick sometimes to use the frying pan. Not unjustifiably though lol.

@Aang_Lite: Ariel may have initially lusted after Eric...but I think you have it mistaken where you say that that was the only thing driving her interest in him. Actually, I'd venture to say that Ariel saw that Eric wasn't a "vapid" and "conceited" royal. Who is to say Ariel hadn't met her share of conceited prince mermen in the sea, before? Instead, Ariel saw that Eric was "humble." Eric just demurred when Grimsby showed him that huge statue "built in his honor for a wedding gift." On top of that, Ariel watched Eric pull Grimsby from the water, and swim back to his ship to save his dog, nearly dying for it. I think Ariel's lust turned into respect for Eric's kindness and bravery. She fell for those things, not just his appearance. A Reader's Digest book from a Special Edition expounds on this "idea" of mine, and fully supports it...

And there is more eye contact between Ariel and Eric, than between Rapunzel and Eugene at first. Rapunzel and Eugene often gaze at each other sidelong, rather than face-to-face...which means they are lusting, sure, and though that is not overt, it is there.

I'll have to disagree with you that Rapunzel doesn't have a "desire to be part of that world" which she sees outside of her tower, which she gazes forlornly at from day to day, and which Gothel only paints "horror shows" about. Honestly, what does the repeated line "when will my life begin?" over and over in the chorus of the first song actually imply? I'd say some serious pent-up wishes to get out of the tower, explore that world, and be part of what is happening there, much the same as Ariel wanting to explore and be part of the land world. No real difference of emotion is there, except for the main plot point: locked in tower and forbidden to visit the outside world; forbidden to visit the sea surface and interact with humans.

So. I sense that you don't like the parallels I am drawing here. You make it out that all of Ariel's interest in Eric was simply built on carnal attraction. But there were other reasons for why Ariel decided "he's the one." And you skip over those areas to reach your conclusions. Well, it's okay. I respect that you dislike Ariel a whole lot. I just think Rapunzel resembles Ariel quite a bit, even if they are not identical.

Eh, none of them are really fits her. Though the reason I pick wrath because she often to hit strangers with frying pan lol. But I guess she's just wary with strangers.

I don't see Rapunzel being envy. Yes, she dreams about the world in outside, but in my view it can't be considered as envy. She's more like a curious person, she's more interesting with outside and want to explore it. But unlike Ariel that escape from her world to be in the human world, Rapunzel still tried to be obey with Gothel, who said the outside world is horrible to her and told her to still stay at the tower.

^ agree. I actually don't think any of the DPs can really be described as lustful. Love and a want for human contact do not equal lust IMO.

@wavesurf: I looked up envy just for a def to copy and paste; the first that came up was: a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.

Rapunzel's longing for freedom was not invoked by seeing another living thing have freedom; she longed for freedom because she was bored out of her skull. Same with Ariel, actually. Her want to live on land didn't originate from jealousy of the humans there; rather, she wanted to be a part of the excitement and to have some freedom. None of the DPs are really envious characters.

I also think there's a difference between wanting to get out of something, and wanting to get into something. I always saw Rapunzel as just wanting to get out of her tower, and not as wanting to actually dive into the outside world (She's curious about it, but she's not focused on becoming a full-fledged inhabitant of it, or "part of that world"); When Will My Life Begin is dedicated to how boring life is in her tower and how she simply wants her freedom, and in the When Will My Life Begin Reprise she's more singing about her freedom than about the world surrounding her. Ariel, on the other hand, obviously wants to be "part of that world"; there's an entire song dedicated to this :). She's completely absorbed by the wonder of human activities. Before leaving, Ariel also knows what it's like up there and so is fully able to want to be a part of it. Rapunzel, though, literally sings, "What is it like/ Out there where they glow". She has no idea what she's missing at the beginning of the movie, and she actually sings during I See the Light about this lack of knowledge she had up until getting out of her tower, "All that time never even knowing/ Just how blind I've been". She didn't know enough about the world at first to actively want to be a part of it.