
As she opens the door to move out of the way, he falls through the door frame and into the mud in front of the entire town. Belle attempts to politely decline when Gaston corners her against her front door and tries to kiss her. He invites himself in to propose to her and gives her an image of their life together - "A rustic hunting lodge, my little wife massaging my feet, while the little ones play on the floor with the dogs oh, we'll have six or seven ". The next day, Gaston arranges a wedding ceremony right outside of Belle's house and invites the entire town. The Beast then decides to lock him in a dungeon in the castle tower (against Maurice's wishes). The Beast, however, is enraged when he discovers Maurice and is about to throw him out, not caring that the wolves would eat him, when Maurice says he needs a place to stay. Potts the teapot/cook, and her son Chip the tea cup. There, he meets the enchanted household items - Cogsworth the mantel clock/majordomo, Lumière the candelabra/maître d', Mrs. Cold and tired, he stumbles upon a mysterious castle and enters. He escapes from some wolves and desperately seeks shelter from a storm. Maurice rides off to a fair with his invention, but gets lost and loses his horse as night falls. Belle reveals her feelings of loneliness to her father, who promises her that his next invention, a wood-chopping machine, will be the start of a new life for them both. He and his sidekick, LeFou, openly mock her father's inventions and her love of books. She is the object of unwanted attention from the local hunter, Gaston, whom she perceives as an egomaniac and 'positively primeval', barbarian-brained, lunkhead. Belle is seen as "odd" by the other townsfolk due to her preference for reading books. Years later, a beautiful young peasant woman named Belle lives in a nearby village with her father, Maurice, who is an inventor. As the years pass, the Beast sits in his castle wallowing in despair, convinced that no one could ever love him. 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 will be doomed to remain a beast forever.

She conjures a powerful curse, transforming him into a hideous beast, his servants into anthropomorphic household items, and the entire castle and all its surroundings into a dark, forbidding place, so that he will learn not to judge by appearances. The Prince tries to apologize, but she has already seen the lack of kindness in his heart. The woman then throws off her disguise, revealing that she is a beautiful enchantress. The beggar warns him not to judge by appearances, but the Prince ignores her and shuts the door on her. Repulsed by her appearance, the prince turns her away. The woman asks for shelter from the cold, and in return, offers the young prince a rose. In the prologue, told through stained glass windows, an old beggar woman arrives at the castle of a French prince.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. But the two soon taste the bitter-sweetness of finding "you can change and learning you were wrong". In the beginning Belle views him as nothing more than a monster, he views her as difficult and stubborn. The Beast accepts with a promise she'll remain in the castle forever. His daughter Belle (Paige O'Hara), a bookworm who dreams of life outside her provincial village, finds him trapped in the castle and offers her place instead. But who could ever learn to love a beast? Ten years later, Maurice (Rex Everhart), an inventor from a nearby village, becomes lost in the woods and seeks shelter in the Beast's castle, the Beast (Robbie Benson) imprisons him for trespassing. 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.

Prince Adam was cursed to a beast form by an enchantress who saw no love in his arrogant heart for others.
