<P> Belle befriends the castle's servants, who invite her to a spectacular dinner . When she wanders into the forbidden west wing and finds the rose, the Beast, enraged, scares her into the woods . She is ambushed by a pack of wolves, but the Beast rescues her, and is injured in the process . As Belle nurses his wounds, a friendship develops between them . The Beast shows Belle a gift from the enchantress, a book that transports readers wherever they want . Belle uses it to visit her childhood home in Paris, where she discovers a plague doctor mask and realizes that she and her father were forced to leave her mother's deathbed when her mother succumbed to the plague . </P> <P> In Villeneuve, Gaston sees rescuing Belle as an opportunity to win her hand in marriage, and agrees to help Maurice . When Maurice learns of his ulterior motive and rejects him, Gaston abandons him to the wolves . Maurice is rescued by the hermit Agathe, but when he tells the townsfolk of Gaston's crime but is unable to provide solid evidence, Gaston convinces them to send Maurice to an insane asylum . </P> <P> After sharing a romantic dance with the Beast, Belle discovers her father's predicament using a magic mirror . The Beast releases her to save Maurice, giving her the mirror to remember him with . At Villeneuve, Belle proves Maurice's sanity by revealing the Beast in the mirror to the townsfolk . Realizing that Belle loves the Beast, Gaston claims she has been charmed by dark magic, and has her thrown into the asylum carriage with her father . He rallies the villagers to follow him to the castle to slay the Beast before he curses the whole village . Maurice and Belle escape, and Belle rushes back to the castle . </P> <P> During the battle, Gaston abandons his companion LeFou, who then sides with the servants to fend off the villagers . Gaston attacks the Beast in his tower, who is too depressed to fight back, but regains his spirit upon seeing Belle return . He overpowers Gaston, but spares his life before reuniting with Belle . However, Gaston fatally shoots the Beast from a bridge, but it collapses when the castle crumbles, and he falls to his death . The Beast dies as the last petal falls, and the servants become inanimate . When Belle tearfully professes her love to him, Agathe reveals herself as the enchantress and undoes the curse, repairing the crumbling castle, and restoring the Beast's and servants' human forms and the villagers' memories . The Prince and Belle host a ball for the kingdom, where they dance happily . </P>

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