Disney made a movie version of Beauty and the Beast. It is the best-known version of the story. A majority of the population has either seen the movie or heard about it. The main character, Belle, is a young girl in a small village. She lived with her father who is an inventor. Belle sings a song of how boring the village is for her and how she wants to find happiness in another place. She reads many books and wishes to have some of the adventures she reads about. Meanwhile there is a very big man in the village, named Gaston, who wants to marry Belle but Belle doesn't wan anything to do with

When the father came back from the Mansion after taking the Belle to The Beast he went to the towns people for help to save her daughter. No one wanted to help him because they already thought he was crazy and when he was ranting and raving about The Beast they thought he was even crazier. The local hero Gaston, whom every one loved, had a plan to put the father in a mental institution until Belle promised to marry him. After Gaston found out The Beast was real he got all the towns people behind him to attack The Beast and kill him. Belle found The Beast almost from sorry because Belle had not come back to the mansion in time.

One day Belle's father is on his way to sell one of his inventions and heads off into the woods while Belle takes care of the house. Before he leaves Belle asks him to bring her back a rose. There was a bad snowstorm that night and the father got lost in the snow. He sees a path that has a green glow to it. He is intrigued and goes down the path. At the end of the path he finds a huge mansion. With nowhere else to go he has no other choice but to try to get inside. He knocks on the door but no one answers butt the door slowly swings open. He never finds any one in the house but dinner fresh clothes and breakfast the next morning are all set up for him. He leaves without seeing the owner of the house. On his way out of the mansion he sees a large rose garden. Remembering what his daughter had asked of him he picked a rose from the garden. As soon as he lifted the rose from the ground he heard a tremendous sound and a giant beast came from the mansion. The Beast told him that he was ungrateful and that he could have had anything he wanted accept the roses. He told the beast that it was only a gift for his daughter. The beast told him that he could trade in his life for his daughters but it must be on her own free will. Regardless of which of the two came back he had a week to see his daughter. When the father got home from the mansion he told Belle about the events that morning. Belle cared too much for her father and agreed to go in his place.

Beauty went to the Beasts house in place of her father. The beast told her that everything in the house was hers. Every night at nine o'clock the Beast came to eat dinner with Beauty. He asked her the same question at every dinner; "Will you marry me." Beauty always said she could not. She starts to like the Beast after a while and she even gets antsy when nine o'clock comes around.

Both of the Tales I have summarized both have strong moral message. Most fairy tales have an underlying meaning for people to consider and make them better human beings. The morals in Disney's version and Beaumont are very much the same. They both say that Beauty comes from within and good nature and kindness is better than wit. The line in the Beaumont version that sums it all up is; "I am well pleased with your kind heart; when I think of that you no longer seem so ugly to me." The message of don't judge a book by its cover is the obvious moral value. According to an essay by Jack Zipes, the tale shows wo

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