La Belle et la Bête
Adlade,
Belle, Flicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur
until their father's merchant ships were lost at sea. The family is now near
ruin, but Adlade and Flicie nonetheless still squander away the family money on
themselves and keeping beautiful, whereas Belle slaves around the house, doting
on her father. Ludovic detests his two spoiled sisters, but is protective of
Belle, especially with his friend Avenant, a handsome scoundrel who wants to
marry Belle. Crossing the forest one dark and stormy evening, the father gets
lost and takes refuge in a fantastical castle. Upon leaving, he steals a
blossom off a rose bush, which Belle requested. The castle's resident, an angry
beast, sentences him to one of two options for the theft of the rose: his own
death, or that of one of his daughters. As she feels she is the cause of her
father's predicament (despite her sisters asking for far more lavish gifts),
Belle sacrifices herself to the beast. Upon arriving at the castle, Belle finds
that the beast, whose grotesqueness she cannot deny, does not want to kill her,
but wants to marry her and lavish her with riches. He does not force her, but
he will ask her every night to marry him, these times the only ones when he
will appear to her. She vows never to say yes. As Belle resigns herself to her
mortal fate and looks deeper into the beast - whose grotesque exterior masks a
kind but tortured soul - will her thoughts change? Meanwhile, Belle's family,
who learn of her situation, have their own thoughts of what to do, some working
toward what they believe is Belle's best welfare, and others working toward
their own benefit.
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