She stops complaining about her imprisonment and starts to act: she analyses logically the clues they have in order to find out where her mother is and if there is a way to break the curse. Here Belle has a revelation moment: she discovers with surprise that she is worried for Beast instead of being terrified, and that they both are trapped due to their parents’ actions. Midpoint: Beast has an astonishing moment of revelation on how much of a self-centered egoist he has been.Ī new magic from Belle’s mother appears while Belle is having finally a good time with Beast at dinner: a 21-petalled rose appear in the middle of the table as to remidner that Beast is forever doomed. D’Arque, which at this point of the story Belle mistakes for the word “dark”). The power of Belle’s mother (who may be good or bad) is here revaled, and at the same time the real enemy is suggested (Dr. The First Plot Point overlaps in both stories with the end of the “Part I” of the book, and the “past” story finishes here: no more chapters on the “past” story will follow.įirst Pinch Point: One night, Belle meets a magical statue of ivy that seemed to be sent by her mother, wherever she is, to warn Belle “against the dark.” Belle is terrorized and runs away from the statue.

In the parallel (past) story, Rosalind (Belle’s mother) cursed the Prince after his parents did nothing to defend magical people in their kingdom from an ethnic cleansing done by humans that brought the magical people near to extinction. Belle is forced to abandon her Normal World of mother-orphan girl and enters a new condition: she has a mother, which could be alive and seems terrible, and Belle is trapped in her mother’s curse-as the castle become blocked by magic-with her mother’s magic’s result: the Beast.

In the parallel story about Belle’s parents, Maurice and Rosalind get married.īoth the stories-the “present” about Belle and the Beast and the “past” about Belle’s mother/Belle’s birth/Beast’s creation-are engaged nearly at the same time in the book.įirst Plot Point: Belle accidentally destroys the enchanted rose and has a vision discovering who transformed the Beast: her own mother, which Belle totally forgot since childhood. Belle looks for him and arrives at Beast’s castle. Inciting Event: Philippe the horse comes back to Belle’s house, but her father is missing.

Disney as old as time a twisted tale