Could someone please give me the disney story of beauty and the beast in a nutshell?

i found like a 30 page copy of it online but i really don't want to have to read through it all unless i have to. i'm also aware of the movie, but that is also time consuming.





i just need the basics to do a spanish project on, so the main points would be great





thanks :)Could someone please give me the disney story of beauty and the beast in a nutshell?
Prince Adam was cursed to a beast form by Enchantress who saw no love in his arrogant heart for others. The one way he could break the spell was to learn to love another and earn her love in return before the last petal from his enchanted rose fell, which would bloom until his twenty-first birthday. But who could ever learn to love a beast? Ten years later, Maurice, an inventor from a nearby village, becomes lost in the woods and seeks shelter in the Beast's castle, the Beast imprisons him for trespassing. His daughter Belle, a bookworm who dreams of life outside her provincial village, finds him trapped in the castle and offers her place in his stead. The Beast accepts with a promise she'll remain in the castle forever. In the beginning Belle views him as nothing more than a monster, he views her as difficult and stubborn. But the two soon taste the bitter-sweetness of finding you can change and learning you were wrong.Could someone please give me the disney story of beauty and the beast in a nutshell?
::Karth::


You don't understand the phrase, ';in a nutshell..'; do you?
Beauty meets Beast


Beauty is scared of Beast


They fall in love with one another


Beast has spell broken


Beauty has beastlings





~Fin
Beauty's Dad owes Beast money


Dad gives daughter instead of $


Beast knows Beauty is disgusted by him


Beast spoils Beauty giving her everything she wants (natch)


Beauty falls for Beast, or his gifts


They have beastiality, I guess.
In the prologue, an old beggar woman arrives at the castle of a young, selfish French prince. The old beggar woman asks for shelter from the bitter cold, and in return, offers the young prince a rose. Repulsed by her appearance, the prince turns the old beggar woman away. It is then that the old beggar woman reveals that she is a beautiful enchantress and places a powerful curse, transforming the heartless prince into a hideous beast (as a reflection of his cruelty and hatred), his servants into anthropomorphic household items, and the castle into a dark, forbidding place, so that he will learn to not judge by appearances. The curse can only be broken if the Beast learns to love another and receives the other's love in return before the last petal of the enchantress's rose withers and falls; if not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for the rest of his life. As the years passed, the Beast stayed hidden in the gloomy castle, convincing himself that no person could love such a hideous beast.





Ten years later, a beautiful young woman named Belle has moved to a French Proven莽al village, where she is seen as eccentric due to her preference for reading books and dislike of being courted by the ';rude and conceited'; local hero, Gaston. At one point Gaston arrogantly offers his hand in marriage to Belle, which she politely but firmly rejects.





Maurice, who is Belle's father, is an eccentric inventor. While traveling alone to a fair, Maurice becomes lost and loses his horse in the dark, stormy night while being pursued by wolves; cold and tired, he stumbles upon the dark castle and cautiously enters it. When the Beast discovers Maurice resting in the castle, he locks him in a dungeon. Belle, who worries when her father's horse returns home without him, seeks out her father, finds him at the Beast's castle and offers to take his place as the Beast's prisoner. Realizing that Belle could break the spell, the Beast agrees. He gives her permission to go anywhere in the castle except the West Wing, where he keeps the enchanted rose. The Beast then says if Belle needs anything, his servants will attend. The enchanted household items, including Lumi猫re the candelabra and Cogsworth the clock and head of the household, welcome Belle warmly and entertain her with a fancy French dinner.





Back in the village, the citizens cheer up Gaston after Belle has rejected him and his absurd marriage proposal. Maurice then bursts in and asks for help to rescue Belle from ';the beast.'; No one believes him, believing that he is insane, and Gaston decides to force Belle to marry him by threatening to throw her father into an asylum. Maurice goes off to search for Belle, unaware of Gaston's plan.








The famous ballroom dance sequence from the second act of Beauty and the Beast.Belle sneaks into the forbidden West Wing through her curiosity, discovering slashed furniture, broken mirrors, a ripped-up portrait with strangely familiar blue eyes, and the enchanted rose. The Beast angrily catches her and she flees the castle, only to encounter a pack of vicious wolves. At the last minute, the Beast fights off the wolves; a grateful Belle returns to the castle and, while tending to the Beasts' wounds, thanks him for saving her life. Over some time, the two start to become friends. The household items are excited and optimistic that Belle may fall in love with the Beast and cause them to become human again. The relationship reaches its climax with an elegant dinner and ballroom dance.





Belle asks if she can see her father, and the magic mirror reveals that Maurice is lost and sick in the forest. The Beast, having fallen in love with Belle and feeling some pity to Maurice, releases her to go rescue her father. Although he knows that it may ruin his chances to become human again, his love for Belle overcomes his selfishness. As Belle flees on her horse the Beast utters a roar of sorrow.





Belle finds Maurice and takes him back to the village, where a mob gathers to take him to the asylum. Gaston offers to spare Maurice if Belle agrees to marry him, but she still refuses. Some in the mob including Gaston himself accuse Maurice of ranting and raving about a ';Beast'; as they prepare to take him away. To prove that her father's claim of the Beast's existence is true, Belle uses the magic mirror to show the villagers an image of the Beast. The villagers become frightened as they realize that the Beast is real. Gaston feels spurned and betrayed by Belle, accusing her of loving ';this monster,'; to which she replies, ';He's no monster... You are!'; Gaston angrily rallies the villagers to storm the castle and ';kill the beast,'; telling them that he is dangerous. To prevent Belle and Maurice from warning the Beast, Gaston locks them in a cellar. The enchanted objects at the Beast's castle are alarmed to see the mob led by Gaston marching towards it with a battering ram, and quickly prepare the castle's defense.





Eventually, with the help of Chip the teacup, Belle and Maurice escape from the cellar and rush back to the castle. Apparently, a fierce battle has already broken out; after the villagers force open the castle door, the enchanted objects have attacked and chased away all the villagers except Gaston, who goes up to the main bedroom and attacks the Beast, firing an arrow into his back, causing him to roar in pain. Gaston mercilessly attacks the Beast, forcing him near a ledge on the roof of the castle. Gaston demands that the Beast retaliate, but in his sadness and despair, Beast has lost the will to live and does not fight back. Gaston grabs a stone club from the ledge and prepares to kill the Beast. However, Belle reappears on her father's horse, Philippe, and inspires the Beast to fight back. The Beast grabs the club just before it comes down on him and angrily growls at a surprised Gaston. Belle urges Philippe forward, and the horse bravely stomps into the main hall of the castle. The Beast and Gaston then begin a ferious battle, taking them all across the roof of the castle in the midst of a raging storm. Meanwhile, Belle makes her way through the castle to the west wing. Gaston kicks Beast into a formation of gargoyles on the roof and inadvertently smashes the head of a beastly gargoyle, mistaking it for Beast himself. Gaston shouts for the Beast to come out of hiding and taunts him, asking if he really thought Belle would choose a monster like him when she could've had a man like Gaston. Infuriated, Beast emerges from the shadows and lunges for Gaston, but the hunter swatts him back with his stone club. Gaston then says that it is all over and that Belle is his. This pushes Beast over the edge. He disarms Gaston and holds him by the throat over a deep chasm. Gaston pathetically pleads for his miserable life. Although enraged, the Beast realizes that he does not possess within his soul the dark, evil, ugliness necessary to end another life. Beast spares Gaston. Belle comes to the balcony, calling for the Beast, and he climbs there to reach for her. At that point, Gaston stabs the Beast viciously in the back, only to lose his footing and fall off the high roof into the deep chasm.





Belle tries to reassure the badly wounded Beast that everything will go fine, but he believes he is about to die. Eventually, the Beast dies and Belle, who is now heartbroken, whispers in tears that she loves him, just before the last petal falls from the rose. He is immediately transformed and returns to his human form--handsome yet unrecognizable except for his piercing blue eyes. When Belle and the prince kiss, the curse is broken and the castle becomes beautiful again and the enchanted objects turn back into humans.





The last scene shows Belle and the Beast happily dancing in the ballroom, in front of many guests, which includes Maurice and the now-human assistants of the castle. Everybody is well; everybody is happy. Belle and the Beast live happily ever after.