
Though he didn't see his host, he saw that the table was served with dinner for one. While in the castle, Maurice experiences an eerieness and is startled by voices which seem to have no source. While lost in the forest, they enter a part of the forest that is strangely covered in snow in June and are attacked by wolves, causing them to flee to the Beast's castle. Meanwhile, Maurice and Philippe get lost in the forest while traveling to the market. But Belle turns him down knowing that he is extremely arrogant and self-absorbed. Eventually, Gaston, who is considered as a hero by all in the village on account of his success in the battlefield proposes marriage to Belle. Belle asks for a rose and for his safe return. One day, Maurice and his horse, Philippe, leave for the market and asks Belle if she wants a gift when he returns home. Belle lives with her father Maurice, a tinkerer and a music box maker. They regard Belle as a very odd and "funny" girl. Several years later, in the village of Villeneuve, a young bookworm and inventor named Belle is extremely bored of her village life and seeks excitement and adventure, contrary to the villagers who are very simple-minded and are quite happy where they are. She reveals the rose to be an enchanted rose and tells the Prince that if he learns to love another and gain love in return by the time the last petal falls from it, the curse would be broken, or else he would remain a Beast for life and his servants would permanently become non-living antiques. For further punishment, she also transforms his servants into household objects and she removes the villagers' memories of the Prince and the castle. The Prince begs for forgiveness, but the Enchantress has already seen that there is no love in his heart and hence transforms him into a hideous Beast. The woman then transforms herself into a beautiful Enchantress, astonishing the Prince and scaring away all of his guests. However, disgusted by her appearance and infuriated due to the sudden interruption, the Prince mocks her and declines the rose. All that she had to offer the Prince was a rose. The party is interrupted when an old beggar woman arrives at the castle in the hope of seeking shelter from the raging thunderstorm. They are all dancing away in the hope of winning the Prince's love and admiration as Madame de Garderobe sings. In a vast castle of grandeur set in the heart of France, a handsome yet cruel and selfish prince is holding a ball to which the loveliest of women in all of the land were invited. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle's enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast's hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within. “Beauty and the Beast” is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. 12.1 Cameos and other Disney references.
