i see no one has studied the classics

So if someone doesn't mention the hit-your-head-with-a-brick symbolism that means they haven't studied the Classics?

Nah. You're taking one legitimate aspect of the film - that she served as a muse for Baptiste, and trying to extend it to apply to the whole of the film and her relationship to other characters.

Garance is just raw femininity, which to one man is a muse, to another an accessory to his ego, to another a plaything, to another a possession to be conquered. Her relationship to the men is more closely analogous (although not perfectly so) to that of Esmeralda to the men in Notre Dame de Paris. The sensitive freak, the cold intellect, the superficially desireable man (here in two forms, the ladies man and the patron).

Garance is a symbol. She's womanhood, and each of these men reacts to her according to his nature and his perception of what women are, none of which reflect the truth. In Garance's show, "TRUTH", she presents beauty admiring itself in a mirror. All of these men want the beauty to belong to them in some sense, to be theirs. But beauty is for itself alone, and only tragedy arises from attempts to possess it. This can be (and often is) at the heart of great art (like Baptiste's shows or Othello), but to inspire such art is not its purpose.

"Now let's have an intelligent conversation. I'll talk and you listen."

I see someone is full of themselves